Woke up and went down to breakfast with Molly. Just us two today, the other girls went to Disneyland. Yes, there's a Disneyland in Paris and you know who's castle it is?? Bell's! From Beauty and the Beast! How sweet is that??! I'm a little jealous, but it was pretty expensive and I figured I should probably see more of Paris since I am leaving tomorrow morning :( Sad. Let's not talk about that.
After breakfast Molly and I got ready and headed out to see the palace of Versailles. We hit up Starbucks on the way because hey, every girl can have one guilty pleasure besides chocolate right?? ;) Mine just happens to be yummy coffee drinks especially on cool cloudy days like today :) A good ol' Hot Caramel Macchiato to go as in a TO GO CUP! That you cannot find anywhere in Rome! Not that I don't like my cappuccino's… it's just there's something about Starbucks… I think it's more than the coffee and the to go cup though, I think I loved it even more here because it reminded me of home :)
Anyways we took the train out to Versailles because the metro wasn't running or working or something. It was quite a slow train ride, but fun to see the suburbs around Paris. Once we got off the train it was only a couple blocks of a walk to the Palace and oh my gosh was it gorgeous! I had no idea what to expect because I didn't really know much about it, but it's huge! We learned from our fourth roomate who was with us the first night at the hostel that being students we could get in for free and what a great tip that was! We didn't even have to stand in line, we literally walked straight in! :) Can't complain about that!
However, this is another way that Paris rates higher on my scale of likeness compared to Rome because in Rome, only EU citizens 18-24 get the perks of discounted rates and what not, which excludes American study abroad students. In Paris a student is a student :) We show them our Visas and get in for free!! Yipee! Gosh I love Paris!
We walked around the entire building and I took a ton of pictures. It was sweet! I can officially say I've seen a palace! :) That took quite awhile and after we went out to the gardens of the palace and those were huge too! People were taking trolleys to get around because the gardens were sooo big! We stayed on the top part of the garden though because 1. we were already tired from walking around the palace and 2. we weren't going to pay for a trolley and 3. Sadly, as beautiful as the garden's were nothing was in full bloom and the fountain's weren't on :( plus 4. it looked like it was going to rain again :(
After we sat in the garden for awhile and took some more pictures we decided to head out and look for some lunch. We walked awhile and if it hadn't had been a Sunday I'm sure we would've got to see a lot more cute little shops, but everything was closed :( We finally found an area that had a few café/restaurants open and stopped at this one place that had outside seating covered by an awning. We took a table and enjoyed crepes! We got a crepe with ham, cheese, and egg for our meal which was really good! The first time I have had eggs in forever! Then for dessert we got a crepe with toasted toffee and warm chocolate filling with a side of whip cream! It was insanely delicious! I can't even explain! The best crepe I've had since I've been in Europe and probably the best crepe I will ever have hands down!
After lunch we walked around awhile more and ran into a super cute pastry shop. Seriously, they looked waaayy too good to eat. We decided to each get a pastry to save for our dinner later in the night, then we wouldn't have to look for something. Plus we didn't really want much more after our awesome lunch. We took the train home and took a short cat nap in the hostel. It was kind of late by the time we were ready to go again and decided to get strawberries and champagne and go sit and enjoy the lights of the Eiffel tower by night. :) I may not have been able to climb the tower, but sitting by it having it sparkle every hour was a pretty awesome night! I can't say I would change it for the world! Best way to end my last night in Paris, for sure!
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