My So Called Parisian Life: My Poor Macaroon

So much has happened in the past few days! Okay so we had a bunch of orientations which were painful to sit through, but semi-helpful nonetheless. So far my roommate and I have done Notre Dame, walked around the Eiffel Tower, and yesterday we did the "bateaux mouches". False, it was not the real bateaux mouches. It picked us up at school because it's right on a canal. So we get on at 2pm we we're like oh this will be so cool because it was with all the international students (it's still weird to think that I'm now the one that's an international kid). So we go through about 6 different gates, which is the weirdest thing ever. Once the boat gets put in to place, we started going down and down and down and it looked like we were sinking, but we weren't (I know you got worried there for a sec). So after about 2 hours of doing this we finally got on to the Seine and basically raced around the Ile-de-la-cité which is where Notre Dame is. We didn't even go by the Eiffel Tower. Everyone was sitting inside for the most part because it was so cold out, but because everyone was inside, the windows were all fogged up, so we could barely see anything anyway. Finally we got off at 5pm in some random spot that we had to figure out how to get home from there.

Today we went to Versailles with ISA. It was gorgeous! SO COLD. But so worth it. It was so cold that it hurt to breathe. And I kept getting the hiccups which is so annoying. We will have to go back since there was still snow on the ground and the gardens were closed, and lets face it, the gardens are the best part. It was a little disappointing though because pretty much all of the furniture inside is a replica. And they also showed us a video of everything being restored so it was weird to see people painting on gold. But it was still cool. There was a Ladurée there too. So of course we had to stop and get a macaroon. After that we went to a restaurant and got nutella crepes and hot chocolate then hopped on the train back to Paris. In the midst of trying to figure out where to get off once we got into Paris, we scrambled to get off the train just as the doors closed behind us and my macaroon was whisked away. My poor little lonely uneaten macaroon, sitting on a train to some unknown place wondering where it's rightful owner is. Once we got back we finally went grocery shopping and stocked up a bit. Now we're sitting in our tiny, freezing, dimly lit apartment. But hey... I can't complain... I'm in Paris!!

Here's a cool link to the Versailles website. You can get a virtual tour... http://www.versailles3d.com/en/