We went down for breakfast at around 9 AM, filled up on pan au chocolat, croissants and butter!!!! Soooo good!!! We headed out to the coach for a tour of Sacre Coeur Montmarte, which is two churches that overlook the whole city. We were up there for about an hour, got some souvenirs for some people :) and then we were off again. We walked down to the Moulin Rouge and then back to the coach to go to Notre Dame. Notre Dame was free to get in and you could take pictures. You could go up in the towers but you had to pay and we didn't have much time because we had to get on the coach to go to Versailles.
The city of Versailles was really pretty, I would definitely want to go back there to check it out. We got dropped off outside the Palace and walked into town to get some lunch. We all got baguettes; they were delicious!!!! I bought a pastry too, so good!!! After we ate we headed back to the Palace. We had 3.5 hours before we had to be back to the coach. The Palace is massive. Over 700 rooms, 1200 fireplaces...everything really extravagant. The chandeliers were beautiful. We didn't get to see much of the gardens. You would really need to spend all day at the Palace to see everything. We left around 6:30 to head back to Paris. We were free for the night from there. We decided to go out to dinner near our hotel in a little section called Bercy Village. Its kind of like Covent Gardens n London, lots of little shops and restaurants. We ate at a place called T Pour 2 . The food was a little pricey but it was really good. I had a warm goat cheese salad. It was goat cheese served on toast with greens and it came with a side of honey. I've never had goat cheese with honey but it was actually really good, cut the tanginess of the cheese. Then I had crepes for dessert!!! I had to have some crepes while I was in France!!! Crepes Suzette, traditional style, sooooo yummy!!!
We were going to go back to the hotel and change to go out, but we decided to just stay at the restaurant. The bartenders were really nice and invited us to meet them next door at a pub called Frog. After the restaurant closed, we headed next door. Frog was really cool, modeled after an English Pub. They played good music too. Eventually the bartenders and one of the waitresses came over to meet us and we all hung out there until that bar closed at around 3 AM. They told us that that particular night was called Paris Nuit Blanche or White Night. It celebrates art and culture in Paris and galleries, museums, and other places stay open all night for visitors with free entry too. We headed back to the hotel and went to bed.
Sunday, Chelsea and I got up a little late for breakfast but thankfully Eya saved us some croissants. We headed straight to the Louvre Museum and had 3 hours to spend there before heading back to London. We didn't have to pay to get into the Louvre because the first of every month is free, so that worked out really well! The security line wasn't very long either so we got right in and headed straight for the wing where the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo are. There were LOTS of pushy people in those two spots; anything to get a picture!!! I was really surprised that you could take pictures all throughout the Louvre. After we saw those two we went back downstairs to where all the shops were and wandered around there for a while. Then we headed outside the Louvre where the glass pyramid and Arc du Carrousel are. We grabbed lunch out there, more delicious baguette sandwiches and another pastry for me!!!
We took our last pictures of the Eiffel Tower from out there too. We left around 1:30 PM. We stopped along the way for a quick break and again at Cheers, a wine and beer discount place where I bought some Belgium chocolates :) Then we drove the rest of the way to the ferry. The ride home seemed like it took forever. We didn't get home until 10:30. We were pretty tired from the whole weekend. It was definitely well worth it though and I will definitely be returning to Paris.
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