Well, Sunday was the big day! Today we would be exploring Paris on our own! It started like most of the other days, wake up early, shower dress as warmly as possible, eat some breakfast, grab a sack lunch and get ready to head out the door! However, today we had to pack our pages and place them in storage for the day as well. My group consisted of Christy, Becca, Adam and I and our first stop was Notre Dame Cathedral! When we arrived, we took a few moments to stand outside of it in awe! The place was amazing! Then we headed inside to see that as well, being that it was Sunday morning, it was full of people both worshiping and those rudely taking photographs. We spent some time there and then went back out again. We went down to the crypt right by Notre Dame which is where you can see old Roman ruins of the city. Then we walked back upstairs and along the garden beside Notre Dame and then over to the Latin quarter where we did some shopping for souvenirs(this is a French word! and it means- to remember!) Anyway, from there we headed to Musee d'Orsay. The impressionistic art museum. We walked around inside there and saw some very beautiful paintings by people such as Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Gauguin and others. We ate our lunch outside of the museum and it once again began to drizzle. So we headed back to the metro to try and find the Pantheon. This proved to be an hopeless situation as we failed miserably and ended up just walking around until we decided to take the metro to the Champs Elysee to do some more shopping. Well we took the metro and got off where we thought was the right place, it ended up not being the right place. Instead, we found a beautiful historic bridge and took photos there and then found some gardens at Tuleries.
It was lovely! After asking for directions (In French) from the security guards, we found our way to the other side of the Arc de Triomphe and then to the Champs Elysee. By this time it was raining pretty hard so we ducked into the Bistro Romain to have dessert!
It was a good choice! After that, we walked up and down in the different stores doing some shopping and then realized we needed to head back to FIAP. When we got back to FIAP, we picked up our luggage and headed back to the train station where we had some dinner (or didn't). Then we got on the train and made our way back to Nantes all exhausted! We arrived wet and tired and hungry. 
Most of us ended up cooking some frozen pizza before bed. Never has my bed felt so good as it did that night! All in all, I had a great weekend! :)
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