The French Grinch

Notre Dame

Where to begin… This past weekend I went to Paris France with two of my good friends from London. We all arrived in Paris Friday evening after traveling on the Eurostar for a two-hour train ride, which was such a great and neat experience. We arrived at the hotel and had a nice relaxing dinner preparing ourselves for a full day of exploring planned for Saturday. Unfortunately we had not prepared ourselves enough for what was to come. We started off the morning with a wonderful French breakfast followed by a trip to Notre Dame, which was gorgeous! We went on a journey through London shopping & grabbed a great lunch, but with an AWFUL waiter. This was our first hand experience with the rumor of mean French people. I can officially say…the rumor is true. We were shocked with the way we were treated the entire weekend, the French absolutely hate Americans we found that out real quick & were not prepared for it what so ever. The locals would cuss at us, laugh in our faces, deny us into stores, could not understand us, awful stares …I could go on for days. But as the day went on we finally began learn you just have to ignore it, although NOT easy. Definitely the number one lesson learned the entire trip; I appreciate America more than words can say. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

So anyways, the day turned into night where we went to a fabulous authentic French restaurant with a great view of The Eiffel Tower. Prior to our departure to Paris we were given a few recommendations for good clubs in Paris. We never realized that our night out in Paris would turn out to be so memorable. After dinner we had planned to go to a famous hotel where the 56th floor over looked Paris & awesome view of The Eiffel Tower…well first stop we arrived at the hotel and excitingly ran into the hotel so excited to go up, they told us we could not because they were “full.” True or not, we will never know. Second stop we were told to go to a well-known club called Showcase, so we get dropped off once again and walk up to find no joke probably kids around 15-18…NOT what we were expecting. SO back in the cab we go to our third stop to another club recommended, where apparently a bunch of the celebrities hang out, we hesitantly walk up to a closed steel door. It was obvious the club was either closed or had not opened yet. Come to find out the club was not even in existence any longer it had been shut down. SO maybe “third time’s a charm” doesn’t work every time. Fourth and final stop, we head towards ANOTHER club recommended called Queen. We walk in, by this time it is around 12:45 aka way too late for me to be going out. We go inside and we quickly realize we are THE ONLY people in the club. We walked up to a bouncer and asked, “So where is everyone? When will people start showing up?” He follows by saying, “Eh, around “1:30 or 2:00.” 2:00 AM?! That’s absolutely ridiculous, not a CLUE how they are able to do that, going out so late or should I say early. We stuck it out and stayed, turned out to be a great night full of trying to have conversations with French people, dancing, & making the most out of our eventful night!

"The Pyramid" Entrance to
The Louvre Museum 

Our last day was an AWESOME end to the weekend, we woke up grabbed lunch and rented 3 bikes to ride around for the day. Boy did we look like tourists, we were cracking up the entire time trying not to get run over, none the less run people over. We rode to The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre Museum, and around Paris to explore the remaining bits. What a life changing trip, I learned patience, having to deal with the rudeness of French people, & the fact that America is absolutely the greatest place on the face of this Earth. All in all it was an awesome weekend with lessons learned at the end of the day!

Au Voir!