So here we are again, a little time before I have to go off to class.  Apparently I have xanga premium for a month or something. 

Sunday

I sort of forgot what we did right after we woke up, which was around 11, but I think we ate at the Latin Quarter..wait, yess...we did.  We ate at another cafe and I had chicken and fries, I remember now...

So anyway, after we eat we go to Musee D'Orsay, which a museum that used to be a train station.  It wasn't quite as big as the Louvre, but it had a lot of nice art inside.  I'm not really a huge art buff so I don't think I could have appreciated it as much, but it was cool to see the Van Gogh and Monet paintings.  I wanted to see Starry Night but it wasn't there.  A friend said it wasn't in Amsterdam either.  Hmmm.   After spending a few hours in the museum, we decide to go to Versailles.  The train ride was really long, I must have fallen asleep like 20 times during it.  (Okay, so it's not THAT long, but pretty long for the metro...which, btw I keep calling the marta).  So we finally get to Versaille, and what we want to see is the big castle that is here. 

Words cannot describe how huge this place is.  It was about as big as the Louvre except with big extensions going off on the sides, and this was only the building.  The other 5/6 or something of the property was garden.  Just tons of garden and lake that you could walk around.  Unreal.  That would be the awesomest place to live in.  Unfortunately, the inside was closed (we got there around 6), but the gardens were open until 8 so we just walked around there.  Wanted to go the next day to see the inside, but it was closed on Mondays=(. 

So we get back on the metro and go back to downtown Paris to see the Eiffel Tower(!) next.  The Eiffel Tower was huge.  It was just crazy standing under the base.  I had ideas about how big it was, but it surprised me still.  I think it was taller than the Tokyo Tower, not sure, but definately much cooler.  So we end up eating sausages and fries at the stand before buying the lift ticket up (since we didn't want to walk the hundreds of steps up to the 2nd level).  Kind of crowded getting up, but once we were up there it was amazing.  It was freaking cold, but I took a ton of night shots.   I was also really paranoid of dropping my camera over the edge, which would have been VERY BAD.  Eiffel Tower was probably the high point of the trip.  We ended this night early, and after the tower headed back and just crashed

Monday

Ahhh, last day.  Didn't plan much for this day.  Walked around and visited some stores for clothes and stuff.  Saw a pair of euro style shoes I thought were cool, and now that I think of it, should have bought (25 euros).  Then we visited the Arc de Triomphe (to see it during the day).  After that we just went to La Defense, which was more of the business sector of Paris.  Lots of tall modern buildings, and a huge square "arch".  Spent some more time just walking by the river looking at the street vendors.  Bought a key chain.  Soon, it was time to catch the train.

Overall, an awesome trip.  I hope the other are just as great.  Not sure where to go this week.  Maybe Amsterdam, but I don't know what I could do for three days except chill, and that would seem sort of like a waste.  I don't want to go to "coffeeshops" (there is a limit what I can tolerate comfortably, and while refusing a drink is one thing, not breathing is something I'm not really skilled at haha), and the red light district is probably just interesting to walk through a few times.  Van Gogh museum is also there, but I heard you have to pay crazy to get in, and the fact that some of his more famous paintings aren't there...well...  I heard that one could bike ride around the whole city, that would be fun.   The other alternative is to go down to Nimes, where they are having a bullfighting festival type thing.  That would be fun as well.  Decisions, decisions!  Oh well....it is time for class now.