Late Nights in Paris

 Kristina was in Paris for the weekend and it was great to get some more time with her. To start with we went to a typical touristy restaurant that I had heard a fair amount about. Its a fondue restaurant, but the main catch being that they serve you wine in baby bottles. So naturally we had to go. It was a fun experience and a fun environment. The owner of the restaurant was playing with us the whole time and the experience was lots of fun and very quirky. Along with doing that with K, we spent some time wandering around the Louvre and taking pictures. Inevitably we saw the Mona Lisa.
and took obligatory pictures of it. The Louvre in general though is just way too big. It was daunting before you even step foot inside. I honestly didn't have much patience for it. I'm not typically a huge museum person, but when it is that insanely big it just kind of turned me off in general. I will probably going back (free entrance with my student visa, hell yes.) and maybe try to just do a wing of it or something, but I honestly think the whole thing is a little unnecessary. Though the architecture and building itself are pretty incredible. 

 Beyond kicking around with Kristina, I have the week off school and head to Barcelona tomorrow. So I've just been trying to get some school work done and exploring some. I wandered into a bookstore that was relatively close to my house and discovered an art installment in one of the rooms that was all about LA. It was kind of weird, but also pretty cool. It had some highways, roads and neighborhoods roughly mapped out and painted on the ground as well as a lump of "tar from LA" in the corner. I thought it was pretty fortuitous that I stumbled into there. They also had really cheap books. I'm not sure why I would necessarily need books in French that cost only 1 euro, but good to know where I can get them if I want them.

 Now to the main point of the blog for the day, our biking adventure! Last night myself and 4 other exchange students finally utilized the rent-able bikes that are all around Paris. We decided we would do a little night tour of Paris all on bikes. We ended up biking all around Paris, approximately 20 km worth, and saw a bunch of the sights at night, which was badass.

We figured out how to properly work the system too. You pay 1.70 euro to get a code and have unlimited access to the bikes for 24 hours. Everytime you take out a bike, you get the first half hour free and you get charged a certain amount for every subsequent half hour. Therefore we (tried) to bike for about 25 minutes, dock the bikes, wait 5 minutes and repeat the process. Pretty good plan over all! Highlight of the night? Biking around the Arc de Triumph traffic circle then down champs-Elysee to the louvre! I think that's about all I have to say, but I had more pictures I wanted to show off, so check em out!