Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart

I have fallen in love with a physical place twice in my life. My first love is an always will be the University of Dayton campus, but I have a new mistress and its only proper that Paris is it. Paris draws you in slowly with her charm and subtle hints at history and elegance. By day, she is bursting with cultures from around the world, filled with other travelers who have come to experience the magical spell that is cast. Once the sun sets and the cafe candles are lit the city comes alive with style and still remains completely familiar.


Becca and I were fortunate enough to be able to stay for free in this beautiful city and so that afforded us the ability to do exactly what we wanted everyday, mainly sit in cafes eat cheese and drink good wine and breathe in this centuries old city to celebrate our birthdays. Our first afternoon of exploration lead us to the quintessential bistro overlooking the Seine and was two blocks from the Eiffel Tower. We made up many fantasy stories about the passersby, that we suspect some of them overheard.thats me getting caught saying the man across the street is meeting his lover on the corner-->

Notre Dame, Montmarte, The Louvre, naturally the Carrie and Big Bridge (we have no idea whats its called but you all know the one I'm talking about), The Opera House, Moulin Rouge, Champs-Elysees, the Arc, Tuilleries, Concord, Bastille, the Latin Quarter and so many more wonderful squares and plazas and building that I couldn't name in a million years but was captivated by every single one.

Favorite piece from the Louvre was not the Mona Lisa which is fairly anticlimactic and crowded but was actually the Seated Scribe. I think I stood and stared at it for at least twenty minutes.

We unfortunately did not make it to Versailles or the other museums because apparently life is closed on Mondays in Paris. Guess that means we'll just have to force ourselves to go back. But maybe next time in the spring.