June 15th- Bonjour, Paris!

Today was a very long day.

It mostly involved traveling. We left our flat at 11:30 and headed to the Eurostar station. The actual travelling time on the train was only about 2 hours, but what with the queue time, traveling the metro, and the change of time zones, we didn’t arrive in our hotel in Paris until 9 PM. Needless to say, we were exhausted, and we were starving.

For dinner we went to a great pizza place down the street from our hotel. Haha. I just realized that I’ve eaten pizza in every country I’ve been to on this trip. We also got dessert- it was called fraise melba, or strawberry melba. It was amazing. However, we also got our first encounter with the language barrier at the restaurant. Benae is the only one in our entire group that speaks French. We’ll see how this goes!

It was about 10:30 at night but the day wasn’t over yet. Our professors took us to see the Eiffel Tower- it’s just a few blocks away from our hotel. Oh. My. Goodness. I was blown away. It was absolutely stunning! We were all giddy at the sight of it. 

Yes, I took this picture. I'm kinda proud of it :)

I also took this picture... don't judge. The lighting was tough to work with!

We got back to the hotel around midnight. Our hotel is very small, but it’s well kept and cheerful. The biggest problem is that we have four girls in our room and one narrow closet... so there's enough room for us to hang up one shirt each, and the rest would have to stay in our suitcases.

We'll be in Paris for 10 days. This is going to be an adventure for sure!