I Love Paris! Day 1

When I was in 3rd grade, I had a Social Studies project where I could pick any one famous thing and build a model and write a paper on it. I chose the Eiffel Tower. My mom helped with the paper, and mom and dad helped me with the tower. We used popsicle sticks and it took us a whole week. We bought craft wood glue, and my hand got tired from holding the hair dryer for so long trying to make it dry. The last step was to spray paint and draw a thermometer for the top. It was our best creation ever :)

Now I am 26 years old and am finally able to see the real thing. Dreams really do come true!

We began our Parisian tour at our beautiful borrowed apartment in North Paris. We can see the tippy top of the Tower from our window!

Our sweet host for the week greeted us with coffee, chocolate crossants, and a bottle of red wine. This is the life!

We put down our stuff and were off to conquer Paris. First stop, the Arc de Triomphe!

It was beautiful, and right in the middle of the famous street, Champs Elysees.

After strolling around, we received an email from our host, inviting us to a flat party at her friend's. Now I don't know how many of you have seen the great film Breakfast At Tiffany's (if you haven't go rent it ASAP), but there is a party scene where they shove about 50 people into a tiny apartment where everyone is smoking and drinking and just being posh. Take that scene and subtract the size of the apartment and people, and that's what it was like. The host was even in a little black dress! She had cheese, baguettes and wine galore - plus a killer view of Paris.

We hung out as long as we could, between the cigarette smoke and jetlag we were spent, and then headed back and called it a night.