exhausted from it all!

i dont even know where to begin! and i have SO many pictures!

Paris was AMAZING! We woke up at 8 everyday, and I have never walked more in my entire life. The weather was BEAUTIFUL, so during the day we got to go around to literally every museum possible. In the afternoons, we had free time to go visit whatever other sites we wanted to make it to. We would then go out as a group at night.

I am completely exhausted, and I cannot even remember where all I went, and all the days run together in my mind. Seriously. Luckily I have it written down:

Eiffel Tower twice, Notre Dame twice, Louvre twice, Sacre Coeur overlooking all of Paris, shopping on the Champs Elysees, up the Arc de Triomphe, night cruise on the Seine, Pont Neuf, Picnic by the Eiffel Tower, Pantheon, Sainte Chapelle, Saint Dennis (pretty much ALL the kings of France are buried here), Museum Rodin (the famous "thinker" statue is here), the Army Museum to see Napoleons grave, Jardins de Luxembourg, Jardins de Tuileries, and I know there were other museums and such that I just cant remember...

All of our group could barely even walk at the end of the trip. It was SUCH a great experience! Im not going to bother to sit and upload pictures right now, so I will have to get them done in the next few days.

Some funny things that happened to me during the trip:
-At the Middle Ages Museum, I was walking down stairs and my ankle turned, so I literally fell on the floor. None of my friends were around--the only people there were an old french couple, who didn't say a word or even make any expression at all. They just stared blankly at me as I got up off the floor....smooth.
-A persian woman came up to me at the Louvre and wanted a picture with me, she thought I was famous. I said no...first time, and most likely only time, that that happens to me.
-In the metros, you have to put your ticket through a slot, then walk through the turn stile, and push the swinging doors open. When coming back from Sacre Coeur, I walked through the turn stile, pushed the swinging door, then realized my purse was still stuck on the turn stile...naturally, I decided to bend over and unwrap it from around the turn stile, forgetting I had already pushed the swinging door. POW it swings back and cracks me in the head. Im actually glad all my friends saw...if Im gonna do something THAT ridiculous, then dammit, someone needs to see it.
...needless to say I had a quite visible knot on my head the next day.

ANYWAY, we just got back to Montpellier. Our final for Le Midi is on Wednesday, so the whole group is going to the beach tomorrow to lay in the sun all day and be able to study together. This time-- Im wearing some SPF.

Well, I better get back to my host familys house -- Im sure theyre wonderin where I am!

BYEBYE

ps MOM...means of reaching the top of the eiffel tower:
1. take an elevator all the way up
2. cheaper option - walk half, elevator the rest
and yeah i laugh thinking about going up there together too.

the whole time we were in paris, whenever i would see a cute couple having a picnic in front of the eiffel tower, taking a riverboat dinner cruise together, etc, I would turn to my friends and say, "i cant wait to do that with my mom."
romantic times ahead, mom, romantic times.