The Last day in Paris....

Day13:May 31th

Best way of ending the trip! 

Boy, wasn't that a beautiful day. I loved the weather and the place. There were so many people and so many tourist. Considering it has an awesome view of the city paris from the top of the hill, it is understandable why the place attracts a lot of people. Deli  museum was little different from other museum.  Therefore, i am going to upload a lot of picture with some description on  it. 

St Pierre
This is what you see from the Effele Tower 

I have only seen it on photo before.  This is one of the most famous work of Deli.

Rouge.

Deli. I love his bear. 

Awesome view.

                       I believe this is where Gogh had to pay fee with his paintings








Thank you very much to those who made this trip possible. This was one of the unforgettable experience i have had in my life. This trip makes me love France more and i can not wait for the next opportunity of coming to Paris again! 

Hola skulls!

Day12:May 30th

catacombes!!

The line was longer than we expected so the problem occurred. The lunch reservation time would overlap if we wanted to go to catacombs. So some of us walked to the restaurant and asked if we could change a reservation time from 12:30 to 2pm. People were very nice and accommodated to our request. Knowing a French culture, It was little. It surprising that they did it. Anyways, thanks to the restaurant, we were able to go both catacombes and restaurant.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to go in to catacombes  or not. There were a lot of reasons. Low ceiling is often uncomfortable for me and the dust does not do any good on me. Also, I am scared of actual skulls...knowing all the skulls belonged actual human beings before, creepyness was unavoidable.

However, I ended up going in because I knew this is one of the must see area. Also, my friends are very supportive  of me and sad that "if you get scared, let me know, I will protect you! " . I fled very blessed to have sun friends. I did not know anyone before coming to Paris but now I know everyone and they are nice enough  that they care about me. I feel thankful to them a lot.

The lunch was great. I had salmon and apricot vanilla ice cream. My uncle is a French chef so I took some photos for him .

This was one of those days that I felt very thankful to friends who cares about me. 

Free day!

Day11:May 29th

free day!

At 9:30am, the weather was great so some of my friends and I decided that we go up the Arc de triomphe. I wasn't expected any cardio so it was a bit hard for me. However, the view from the top was totally worthwhile. I was surprised how close is the effele tower was.

Today was colder than I anticipated so I decided to go back to the hotel once and then go out again. I went to Galarie Leffeyte again to get some present for my friends back home.I also went to Madeline to of to Fachon. My parents like the tea from there so I though it would be a nice gift for them. I discoursed that they sell chocolate as well, which I didn't know.

I took advantage of this  day to rest up so that I will be full charged for the last couple days for the trip. 

Hi Peacocks!

  Day10:May 28th

la defence and picnic , greeting to peacocks!

    We started by checking some buildings built by famous people and went on picnic at the park. Weather was surprisingly and I was too warm with long sleeves shirt. With some wine and cheese, I had a great time. After done eating, we went on a walk to find a metro station. As it turned out, we ended up circling around a park only to find out that we have to take a bus to go to the metro station. Well, it was a nice walk.

Here are the reasons why,

1.        We met a lot of peacocks...they weren't even afraid of people. They open their beautiful wing and telling us to take a photo of their beauty.

2.        We get to increase our group bounding throughout the walk. We ended up sort of getting lost to our unity  increased a lot.

3.        Once we found a bus station that takes us to the closest metro station, we gain a sense of confidence of knowing Paris even better.

This is also why we were hour and half late for arriving at La defénce...I was already very tired at that point so I decided to go home.

I found myself with difficulties adapting the environment here. I am usually one of those people who can easily get theirselves into new environment relatively easy but I am taking forever.

Cemetery and Musee de Pompidou

Day9:May 26^th

Cemetery and Musee de Pompidou ! 

It was a very late start, 11:45am, compare to any other days. I woke up early anyways as I did not know the time before going to sleep. We grab a little lunch in Bastille. I did not know that French MacDonald’s have Macaroons. I found that quite interesting. 

Cemetery tour was great. I heard that it is going to be 2 hours and half so I was little worried that I might get super tired and would not be able to enjoy as much but it was not the case. Time flew and I did not feel like it was 2h30. It was very interesting with fun little facts told by the tour guide. I like classical music so it was great to see a grave of Chopin. 

 

Musee de Pompidou was interesting with different kind of art from what we have been seeing.  There were some paintings but I found that photography is also one aspects of creative art.  

I went back to the hotel alone as i got lost at the Museum, which was fine as i mastered the metro. 

Versailles

Day8:May 25th

Versailles !   

From the beginning,  we were confused due to the metro strike but I honestly had a great day!　This is one of the place I have always wanted to do due to the comic book we have in Japan called Rose of Versailles. We were blessed to have such a nice day.

The highlight of the trip for me was Marie Antoinette Hamlet. She did not like to been seen by others as soon as she wake up and all the things she was mandated to do.  Her farming place and garden was beautiful with daisy filed.  The nice little train that we took to her Hamlet was quite bumpy but fun ride. I walked through the palace’s garden to go back to the place where we supposed to meet up. It was such a long walk but seeing beautiful scenery was not too much to deal with.

Tour of the Palace was pretty good but it was little hard for me to understand as the lady had thick accent. Nonetheless, tour was very informative and there were a lot of things I did not know. For example, I did not know that royal family sold some of their furniture in the period of French revolution. I would imagine that they would keep their things for the sake of their prestige and inherit them to their next generation.

As soon as I got back to the hotel, I jumped to bed and went to sleep. I was more exhausted that I thought I actually was. If I have a chance in the future, I would like to visit there again! 

Musee d’Orsay

Day3: May 20^th

Museum and walk day!

We visited Musee d’Orsay today. The building used to be a train station but they renovated to the Museum. Everything in Paris is awesome and this was certainly not an exception. There were soo many people and it was totally understandable why the museum attracts them. There were soo many beautiful Impressionist paining. I thought it was very nice that the museum had neo-impressionist painting as well.

I have not been exposed to a lot of Scriptures but I found some interesting ones in the museum.

Lunch was great. I had a salad and mini éclair for desert. It was very good. I have always been wanted to try one in France so it is now checked off from my list.

It was little unfortunate that I did not get to check out all the things I was supposed to before debrief session but I am sure that I would have time to come back again.

The park we met, Jardin due Luxembourg is amazing, except it was showing. I would love to visit there when it is not raining.  

After the debrief session, I walked around the park and managed to go back to the hotel. I think I got the subway and surrounding area of the hotel figured out. 

At the museum, it was little confusing because I end up losing a lot of people. I managed to get in to one group at lunch thought. 

I went out for exploration after getting back to the hotel. It was raining but still had a great experience. I purchased stuff without speaking english for the first time!!! 

Overall, I had a successful and full of art day.