Well, this post is coming about three weeks too late, but the end of my stay and my return to New York have been such whirlwinds! I will divide up the events up until now into a few more posts before I wrap up this blog.
Anyways, on my last day in Paris, I spent most of the day wandering throughout the city with my friends Toni and Lizzy. We started out at Reid Hall and said goodbye to our little mini-campus. Then we ate one last Frenchy lunch (crêpes at a crêperie nearby). For the rest of the afternoon, we kept wandering to different sites in an attempt to do something Parisian on our last day. We went to the Tour Montparnasse, in order to ride the elevator to the top and see the view, but turns out it was 8 euros...not something we were about to spend money on on our last day. So we began to wander towards the Catacombs, a touristy site I still had never been to. When we got there, there was a sign up saying it was closed due to flooding! Finally, we decided to wander over to the Musée D'Orsay to see the "Crime and Punishment"-themed exhibit there. Upon arrival, we saw that it was closed!...for no apparent reason. Anyways, all of these accidents meant we ended up inadvertently wandering for the whole day, which is actually one of my favorite things to do in Paris and a lovely way to spend the last day. We ended by going to Place de la Concorde and Opéra.
At night, I had my last dinner with Jean Paul (and his granddaughter and his daughter-in-law), and then I finished packing and prepared for a day of travel. Au revoir, Pareee...
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