It’s been a couple of days after Paris pt.2, it’s been a very busy week. AP testing and bomb threats, a lot has been going on. However, I have come back for a pt. 3 YAY!!

Day 4: The Lourve is absolutely huge, I was shocked because in the photos it normally shows the glass pyramid and I always think that’s the museum. Nah, it was everything behind too, which was so much space. The tour started outside of course and we were handed these blue, plastic earbuds that really irritated the inside of my ear. They are no joke, I hit myself on accident with them and that really hurt. There were many other people, we were all introducing ourselves, some people were from Florida (Two friends), another pair (son and Mom) were from Nevada, two from Sweden (Mother and daughter), and a group of people from some part of America, there were also people I could tell were from the South because the lady was wearing denim on denim, which was a huge southern thing.

Inside looks like a mall too, there were so many stores, for example, souvenir shops but other stores to buy clothes and food as well. At the entrance we saw this glass structure, and I must say, it’s gorgeous. Our tour guide led us inside and it was amazing.

The ceilings here were no joke, I was in awe, because one, hello? These people were really rich, because the ceiling was gold. It was very beautiful, tears stung my eyes as I said goodbye and went to the next room. The Mona Lisa room. This room had many, many, iconic portraits. I think iconic isn’t the right term, well known? Maybe? The Last Supper and others were in this room. The line for the Mona Lisa was pretty long. There was also a glass case covering her because people in the past threw soup at her and then glued their hands to the walls. Passing the Mona Lisa room was yet another beautiful room with a gorgeous ceiling and I guess I couldn’t control myself because I sang OMG by New Jeans silently to myself. I guess it wasn’t as silent as I hoped because the person in front of me from Nevada turned around and then did the OMG dance, which led me to be shook because how the heck would I know they knew that song?

We went to the souvenir shop and looked around. They had the coolest stuff, such as books and even the Mona duck. I also saw the book Madeline, which I started to fake cry because I found that book sad. We went into more shops such as Laduree, the macroon shop, and a place called Pylones where I heard the song Addiction by Doja Cat and automatically knew this was the best store. They had really cool toys and everything. I saw a plasma lightning lamp and when I touched it you could see blue electricity. I did that on my sister and said, ” I see you are going to die” and she looked so unimpressed.

As we were heading out of the Lourve, 3 out of 4 family members were hungry, I saw a sign of Amihtabh Bachchan. I was jumping up and down because a Bollywood actor has a sign in France. That’s awesome. Culturally different. We found ourselves in such a cute alleyway because we wanted to find a local restaurant, nothing touristy, is that even a word? Touristy? We did find a restaurant called Grand Mere Louise, which I highly recommend, it’s a fondue place. We had potatoes, ham, pickles, bread, and salad. It smelled kind of funky in there because of the cheese, but the food was a 10/10 so I say try this place out. Plus, the playlist at the restaurant was amazing, they played Music Session 53 with Shakira and other songs on Pop Rising. My sister really enjoyed the fondue place too, and she normally doesn’t like fondue, she liked it so much she would just stir her bread in the fondue for a long time singing, “I’ve been walking with that cheese that’s that queso.” Me personally she should have sang something like “wAe Ka la jAe MoLla ~” We then took a bus and realized the traffic was so bad.

After lunch we decided to walk to the Arc De Triumph, on the way I saw such cute cafes. Like Cafe Belloy or Cuisine Maison.

Going to the Arc De Triumph was hard because you can’t just cross the street, that’s suicide. We had to go through an underground tunnel and walk to the Arc De Triumph. It was worth it because the view was gorgeous. The not fun thing was, there was no elevator. We had to walk so many stairs. Right when you think it’s over, there’s more stairs.

In the little Souvenir shop in the Arc De Triumph I found this perfume and it smelled so good. I obviously put it on and I felt irresistible. My sister wanted to smell it too and so I was going to hand some to her but she literally hugged me and then dug her nose in my neck, which was the place I applied the perfume, and I pushed her away because that was way to uncomfortable for me. After this wonderful experience of stairs we went shopping again. My dad was complaining about how cool the Mcdonalds look here in France compared to in America. We were still walking because we couldn’t find a store to shop in which is quite a dilemma. I did run into some people speaking Marathi which was crazy and I overheard their conversation but again it wasn’t really my fault. We were pretty close to the Sephora when I saw the cutest pigeon and I had the urge to touch it. I think I said something like aww baby~ and went to touch it causing it to slip on the table and fall, which was really cute. My sister found it horrible that I did something to the pigeon. To be fair, it fell on the table, not the floor. We went inside the Sephora and it was not only huge but pretty.

Me personally I don’t wear makeup, I just don’t really like it. Before calling me a pick me girl, I have to say, it’s not good for my skin. Not because I want to be different. My sister did find something after a while and we walked to find some dinner, while looking for dinner we found a tea place that my dad really wanted to go to because he LOVES tea. We got free tea samples. I’m so happy. After thirty minutes or so we found dinner at a restaurant really close to our hotel. I guess I was choking on smoke again because I seriously could not breathe. Cigarette smoke was even inside so it was hard for me to enjoy. I was coughing a lot to the point I dropped my menu and while picking it up my phone fell. The waiter was a very kind sir, he asked if I drank too much. I can’t drink yet. The food was very good and a good way to close the day. Day 5 is going to be a sad day, it’s the day we left Paris.