J'Aime Paris

10 things I have learned about myself and about Paris…

1. If you look closely, or actually just look around at all. You will realize it is  a very dirty city.
2. Parisians make the best crepes. Period. You can’t beat it. I had one everyday.
3. I am not made to ride a metro system. All the running and scurrying and pushing makes me a nervous wreck.
4. People are apparently supposed to be far too close for comfort on the subway, and it is expected. Sometimes you even get lucky enough to have a couple making out right in your personal bubble, and you can’t move. That’s fun. But what makes it even more fun is when an old man starts hissing and stabbing at them with his umbrella.
5. Notre Dame, The Eiffel Tower, and the Arc de Triomphe are incredible masterpieces.
6. Be ready to walk everywhere, and then walk some more. My leg muscles cramped in places I didn’t know I had muscles.
7. They tell you to beware of pickpockets, but if you are hyper-paranoid like me, you think every person with a foreign accent will try to steal your wallet if you give them a window of opportunity.
8. I love sidewalk cafes! The elegance and beauty of sitting outside in the cool, beautiful weather was stupendous.
9. The French military is not the most polished. We spent 20 minutes at the most painful changing of the guard ceremony ever. No one knew what to do or when to do it, and the policeman standing next to us was laughing at his comrades the whole time.
10. It is a very romantically beautiful city at night. I could have stared at the eiffel tower all lit up like lace in the sky for hours. 

Now we are London bound….

Cheers!