Paris with Bottles of Red (Part 4)

A late morning on Sunday. We ended up getting out into the city at about 11AM and took the metro to the Holy Seplacur Church on the other side of town. We stopped at a Quick Burger in order to grab some food and got lost looking for the Church. A local French woman pointed us in the right direction and we ended up walking 17 flights of stairs to get to the beautiful Church. We weren't let in because of our garb, but we got a great view of the city from the hill the Church was on. After a sit on the steps and listening to a violenist we took a shuttle down to the street and looked at souvenirs for a few minutes. Fran and Rachel wanted to see the Moulin Rouge and we all decided that the metro would be the best way to get there because we were so tired from walking everywhere the day before. Matt pretty much jumped the line in the metro and we made it to the Moulin Rouge after a long metro ride.

After taking Superman pictures and Rachel grabbing a crepe, we decided to sit for a while and take a break. We went into a souvenir shop and heard some American music and couldn't believe in a day's time that we'd be hearing American rock music in America. We got back on the metro and took some pictures of the odd cafe's that we saw. Once in the metro we headed to the Piccasso Museum. We got in to the Museum after forging our 2 day Paris Museum Cards to say we got them on Saturday. And though it was Piccasso we weren't impressed because his famous works weren't present in the museum.

All of us thought it would be best after viewing Piccasso to walk back to the hotel which was 3/4 of a mile away. We did so, I took pictures of street art, saw children playing soccer in the streets in preparation for the French side's match later this week. We got to the hotel took a break and got ready to head out for our last night in Paris with the Harlaxton group. We all decided to have one last French dinner with just the 4 of us.

After dinner and a 19 euro bottle of Bordeaux, we found some cheap wine in a market, chocolate, cheese, and bacquettes. It was cool, we saw everyone heading to the metro to party it up in front of the Eiffel tower and Matt, me, and Fran got into the metro and headed to the Eiffel Tower. We picked a spot right by one of the reflection pools and then decided that since it was our last night in continental Europe to buy some cigars to culminate our experience. We found a Tabac and got our cigars and smoked them in front of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone had a great time and that night we toasted ourselves and the things that we learned in Europe. It was an emotional night, Matt and I had become as close as brothers and since he was headed back to Nashville I realized that I may not see him ever again. Its cool though, the experience in Paris was coming to an end and we had made it the best 4 days we could.

Matt and I gathered the 30 drunken students and with the help of a Frenchman Constantine got eveyone safely in a cab to get back to our hotel. Constantine got us to a more affordable area of cab pick up and we headed back to our hotel and went to sleep. I was all packed up for our train journey to London. I said goodbye to the historical city of Paris, and thought my trip was over. However, Europe had one more amazing experience to show me. So goodbye Paris, thanks for the wine, friends, conversations, and amazing food, I hope to see you again with someone I'm in love with. A' due!