A Day of Walking

27 avril

The weather here is still cloudy and rainy.  It's never super cold, but still cool enough to need pants and jackets.  I hope it gets warm soon, because I brought mostly summer clothes.  I'm getting quite sick of my two pairs of pants that I have to wear every other day.  

To start the day, we had our host mom's homemade bread for breakfast and then took 3 different trains and about 40 minutes to get to our class at 9 in the morning.  The class I am taking is French Civilization from the 1700s-present.  

After class it was freezing and so we got hot chocolate.  Then me, my roommate Emily, and our friend Macord just decided to start walking around and going wherever we felt.  We ended up walking for 9 hours and saw lots of Paris' famous sites.

Notre Dame

Point Zero--center point of Paris

Montmartre--brought back BYU stairs memories

Sacre Coeur basilica

This church is relatively new and was built in the late 1800s.  The inside was gorgeous also.

Looking out from Sacre Coeur

Roomies

Ma tarte aux framboises

Opera Garnier

Phantom of the Opera was written by Gaston Leroux about this  operas house, l'Opera Garnier

le Madeline

Place de la Concorde--where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded at the beginning of the French Revolution

le Grand Palais

Arc de Triomphe

 Around 9pm, we got hungry for dinner but quickly realized that everything was closed! So we had to settle for McDonalds where I got a McBaguette.