First and foremost, I mastered the art of the "oeuf a la coque". Then I managed to drop my iPhone all of 2 feet and suddenly it decided to not turn on. So that was cool... After I recovered, I took the Metro all by myself like a big girl to meet up with my group. We visited the beautiful Gothic chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, commissioned by Louis IX, as well as former prison, La Conciergerie, where some 2,700 prisoners took their turn waiting for their heads to be brutally chopped off. (Including Marie Antoinette, poor thing.) We also got to see Notre Dame! I had seen it before when I spent the weekend in Paris 2 years ago during my semester in London, so I was like whatevs but then I was like just kidding can I live here please.
<< My awesome salad with hot goat cheese.
And finally, we trekked up to the Sacre-Coeur Bascilica, which sits at the highest part of Paris from which you can see the entire city. The view is absolutely stunning.
We then took a tour of the surrounding neighborhood, Montmartre. The whole town is freaking adorable. And for those of you who have seen the movie, Amelie, a lot of it was shot in this area, and I got to see the cafe where she she would go, which was pretty cool.
This is Montmartre:
Anyway, it was like...entirely too cold out today which made the experience slightly uncomfortable when my toes decided to stop working, but I still got some pretty pictures out of it.
Then I starved to death in my room until my host brother announced at 9:45pm that dinner was ready, at which point I resurrected myself and ate some pasta and carrot soup.
C'est tout!
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