Paris

French people are much nicer than everyone says. In fact, I think they were the nicest out of all of the cultures we experienced during our entire trip!! They were extremely helpful people in Paris and it really put the icing on top of a wonderful 2 1/2 weeks spent with my amazing and loving boyfriend. This vacation has really been a great experience.

To cap it off...Paris was beautiful. our hotel was great, probably the best we stayed at during our whole trip and it was fairly inexpensive too! it was on a cute little street where every morning we would walk down it and the street would be lined with market vendors selling fruit, veggies, meat, bread, you name it. All the Parisians who lived in the area would be shopping for their groceries for the day with their little woven baskets. It seemed like it was out of a movie. The Eiffel Tower was amazing too and it was really fun going all the way up to the top although i did get scared of heights and wanted to go back down almost immediately.

the Louvre was an amazing museum and the 2 hours we had was not nearly enough to look at everything. we did see the Mona Lisa and the Venus statue that everyone wants to see but those were not nearly as great as some of the paintings and sculptures we saw there. Seriously, the Mona Lisa is overrated. Its a tiny painting compared to others and its not even that good! im no art expert but i dont see what the hooplah is about.

also, we didnt have to stand in line at the Louvre because we went late.. a tip for the wise in case u dont like lines, go at 3pm but know you wont have enough time to see everything in the museum b/c the museum is huge.

in Paris we also did these little walking tours my mom sent me. it was pretty useful to navigate our way around and know what we were looking at!

perhaps the best time in Paris though were the last hours we spent there. Evans and I went back to the Eiffel Tower the night before we left to see the lights at night. it was very pretty and to top it off there was a drum circle..a really good one too. they were putting together some great music and people were dancing and loving life and it was really great. i had so much fun!