The Today we continued to our second to last country, the beautiful France. We began our day on the bus heading to Paris and actually stopped at one of the nicest gas station/truck stops I've ever been to in my entire life. There were little restaurants and 2 different stores for magazines and snacks and these cool vending machines that were for coffee and soups. And, as if it couldn't get any fancier; there was a hotel connected to it. I was impressed (it was also the first place that the bathrooms were free this whole trip - I'm getting a bit annoyed that I have to pay to pee.)
After a quick pit stop we continued to Paris and actually ended up driving by the stadium for the Euro cup that is being hosted by France this year.
We saw a bunch of people sporting their team's colors heading into the stadium (it looked like Ireland and Sweden were playing). We didn't get to stop at the stadium which kinda sucked and we just drove on to our hostel which isn't bad. We've definitely had worse on this trip.
We got settled at our hostel and then went to walk around Paris before having a short cruise to see some major sites from the water. We passed a building that had American flags with 2 large rainbow flags in support of Orlando, which really touched most of us and brought tears to our eyes.
We continued from here to see Notre Dame Cathedral, which was super cool. It is so big and so amazing in person, but I kept thinking about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
We also saw a really cool fountain for St Michel (the archangel that helped to expel Lucifer from Heaven).
For dinner I had some French fish soup, which was really good and surprisingly filling. It honestly tasted like tuna fish.
Then we made our way towards the cruise and stopped at a little overlook with lots of locks and is apparently one replacement for the famous lock bridge that the French government had to take down because it was too heavy and the bridge was going to fall.
The cruise was really fun and we actually saw a lot. Our guide was really funny and he kept going back and forth between French and English, it was really cool. We saw a bunch of different bridges, including the one that was donated to France as a gift from the Russian Csars to represent the friendship between the two countries. We also saw the Eiffel Tower (of course) and most people were scrambling for good pictures.
Then we saw the Statue of Liberty in France, which is smaller than the original in New York and was a gift from US to France as a thank you for our Statue of Liberty which was made by the French.
After the cruise a bunch of us wanted to go see the Eiffel Tower at night so we set off in the general direction of the tower and stopped momentarily at a cool Ferris wheel. It is actually at the corner of the square where the majority of people that were killed during the French Revolution were beheaded, including the king and queen of France. Since I just took a history class on the French Revolution I was excited to be in such a significant spot.
After we finally got to the Eiffel Tower to see it lit up at night. Tonight it was actually lit up in rainbow colors and the soccer ball in the middle for the Euro cup had the American flag on it in solidarity with the US and Orlando, it was kinda cool.
Now I'm heading to bed and we are going to get a bus tour of Paris tomorrow (today technically, it's 1:15am).
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