These past few days have been so much fun!! Since they were our last days in Paris we were just making sure we crossed things off of our Paris bucket list. It wasn't much of a list, though so we had a lot of time just to mess around :) But on Monday we started out by heading over to the Hotel de Ville (which apparently isn't a hotel at all) and saw a collection in the hotel about the kids who were sent away to the concentration camps in WWII. It was really sad, but also really interesting to see pictures of these children being sent away and some of their old toys and clothes. I just wish it would have been in English because I would have liked to read about all of it. But alas, I'm in France where they speak French and spit upon those who don't. So I sucked it up. After that we went over to the other side of the Hotel de Ville to see the "Paris as seen by Hollywood" exhibit. It was not up to par, I can tell you that. All of the advertisements had a picture of Audrey Hepburn so I thought it would be about her, but it was just a collection of old movie posters basically. And we were so worn out that we just basically were dragging our half lifeless bodies through the exhibit. So as you can imagine, we decided to go home after that. But not after we got something to eat for dinner. We went to this sketchy little greek fast food lookin' place and had some incredible gyros. They put fries in them! Oh I was one happy girl. We had a nice little siesta for a while after that and then at 7 went on a bike tour with Fat Tire Bike Tours. It was seriously one of the funnest, if not the most fun, thing we've done this whole time. Let me just tell you about it... So we all get geared up for this thing in yoga pants, layers on layers of shirts, and jackets, and I even brought a waterproof windbreaker (thank you mama) and running shoes. So we look like we're ready for a marathon. We walk to the Eiffel Tower to meet our tour group and everyone else is in jeans and normal human clothes and are just staring at these 7 obnoxious girls dressed like we're ready for some real hard core exercise. Then we walk to the office of Fat Tires Bike Tours and we get our bikes and everything (mine was named Bam Bam) and are getting ready to go. By this time our tour guide I swear hated us. He was this awkward guy named Ryan who was about 24 just chillin' in Paris cuz he was sick of Texas. So then we get going and we're just riding along enjoying the streets of Paris when it starts downpouring like crazy. Let me just inform you that the ride is 4 hours long and it started raining about 30 minutes into it, so you can imagine that we were a bit nervous about the rest of our ride. It worked out perfectly, though, because the rain just made it that much more fun. Luckily, my mother was smart enough to buy me a waterproof jacket, so that saved me a little bit. I still got really wet, but it was a slower process. After the biking was done we went on a boat tour that was included and it was freezing. The boat had no heating so we were just shivering, sopping wet in the boat. But it was so much fun and I'm glad we did it. What day was next.... right. Tuesday. So on Tuesday we had a really fun day as well. In the morning (we got kind of a slow start because we were exhausted from our soggy bike tour) we went to the catacombs that go underneath Paris. It was really cool, but also kind of disturbing. There are miles and miles of bones just piled underneath the city from graves that they dug up because they were unsanitary. I would not be happy if someone dug up my bones and then put them in a soggy cave under the city. But I guess it helped with all of those diseases and what not so whatever. Then after we got done with the catacombs I had the most amazing thing I've ever put in my mouth. It was called the "change your life crepe" and it had in it some delicious French cheese, chicken curry, and egg, chili sauce, and tomatoes (but I despise tomatoes so I had mushrooms instead). Oh my gosh you cannot believe how happy that stupid crepe made me. I was enjoying every single bite so much that I'm drooling just thinking about it. It was that chili sauce that just sent it over the edge. But enough of my fat kid moments. After that we went home and just packed up everything. We left this morning for Chartres on a bus, which is only an hour drive from Paris, so that was really nice. When we got to Chartres we just had the afternoon to explore the city. We just walked around the little city and got some pastries, and went in the cathedral. It was so beautiful... The stained glass in these places just kill me every time. The people here are not as nice as they were in Paris, though. We kept getting straight up laughed at by the locals, which was very strange and confusing because I swear we didn't look that stupid. But whatever crazy Chartres people.
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