Happy Easter!  I have to see being away from  home on Easter is not too fun.  I don’t think the rain helps much or the fact that everyone from this residence seems to be home with family.  Oh well.  I had a good weekend with friends in Paris…

Friday I was a rebel and skipped geography and took the TGV with Emily down to Paris.  We kind of played it by ear (funny side story: I thought the expression was “play it by year” until I was about 18) and decided on the train that we wanted to go to The Catacombs.  Basically it’s an underground cemetery, but I use that word lightly since really it’s just a bunch of bones stacked on top of each other.  I don’t have any good pictures of the bones because you couldn’t use flash and frankly you probably don’t want to see them.  I did not have nightmares after this experience which surprised me.  Anyway, this sign before you go into the “tombs” says “Stop! This here is the empire of the dead.” Please note the irony of me posting this on Easter.

After the catacombs we hopped on the metro and headed down to the Latin Quarter on a whim.  We walked around, window shopped and got some delicious nutella crêpes.  We then took a lovely stroll down the Seine and just relaxed.  Emily wanted to go to the Canadian bar so being a good American and appreciating our neighbors to the North obliged and we sat in there while it rained.  By then it was time to meet our friend Laure at Gare du Nord.  We took the TER (regional train) to her house and just had a relaxing night.  It was my first time in a French house.  News flash: it’s the same as an American house except they only have 1 TV and their kitchen is small.

Saturday morning we headed out to Versailles.  We ended up taking the RER instead of the fast train so a ride that should have taken us 20 minutes took us an hour and a half.  When we FINALLY made it, we met our friend Côme.  He had us over for lunch with his whole family.  I admire his mom, there are four boys!  After a delicious lunch we headed out to the chateau and saw the home of Louis XIV, XV, XVI.  I know this because of my French history class so see I am learning something out here!  We got in for free because we’re “EU Citizens” under 26.  Right.  Emily and I had our personal tour guide so it was fabulous.  It was SUPER crowded, but that was alright.  I picked out somethings for the castle I would like built for me.  Can you spot the french kid in this pic? Yea, not too hard. :) We tried to go to the gardens but they were closed unless you paid for some fountain show.  Côme was not happy about this but we kind of just shook it off and went back to his house.  We then took the right train and headed back to Laure’s where we had a little fête.

This morning (Easter), Emily and I headed back to Lille.  We had a gourmet Easter lunch at McDonalds and made a frozen pizza for dinner.  We such classy gals.  Now we both need to pack for Amsterdam since we leave in the morning!

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