croque Monsieur

I am starting to realize that my vacation is almost over and I don't like it one bit. Yesterday was insane. Well let me start before that. Our first day in Paris we had loose plans to go tour the Opera Garnier and go to Musée d'Orsay. So after sleeping in a little, we went to the opera; the inside is just breathtaking. One of the hallways rivaled if not surpassed the hall of mirrors that we had seen the previous day. While we were inside tooling around, we saw a poster for the ballet of Romeo and Juliet at the Opéra National de Paris-Bastille for that same day in about two hours. I glanced at Leah and told her that we could probably still make it if we wanted too. So after hurriedly finishing our self-guided tour, we ran to the metro station and arrived at the other opera ten to fifteen minutes later. Upon arriving, the woman informed us that the ballet was sold out and the line for potential extra tickets was log so basically we didn't have a chance. Thus being the stubborn women that we are, we thanked her and got in line. :) After waiting for around a half hour and getting up to second in line, the man told us that there were absolutely no more tickets. However no one else was moving, so we held our spot. The people right in front of us got some tickets for 89€ and bei at te front of the line, we figured to just wait until the play started, which at that point was in ten minutes. Finally the man came up and said the had 15€ student tickets. AHH! so we paid and literally had to run from the ticket office into the main building and 30 seconds after we sat down the lights turne off. Win. Our seats were ground floor in the dead center, last row. Basically amazing. The ballet is beyond description. I won't even try. Afterwards we had to pick up Kelli, Leahs friend from back home who came to visit for a week. After runnig through the metros and train stations ( naturally we were late) we got her and went to a cutie pizza place for a late dinner. We arrive at Amaury and Nathalies place around 11, chatted for a bit, an went to bed. Yesterday was basically a full day of sightseeing. We went to Notre Dame, Louvre, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower (where there were, no joke, no less than 11 wedding couples), Napoleons Tomb, out to the best creperie in Paris for dinner, then back to the Eiffel to see it at night. IT SPARKLES!!!!! Oh word it was amazing. It happens on the hour so we saw it once and then stayed an extra hour until it sparkled again. I'm not sure how I missed it the last 2 times I've been here, butit was incredibleeee. Afterwards we took a quick trip to the Moulin Rouge and back to our couchsurfers. Today Leah and Kelli left for London, so I hung out at Amuaryand Nathalies place until I met Malika to exchange money andeat a delicious dinner at her house. LONDON TOMORROW!