Today as a group, we took a day trip to Chartes and visited Chartes cathedral-another beautiful gothic church I really enjoyed! It was incredible to see the cleaned, pristine white portion of the building juxtaposed against the walls, ceiling, and windows yet to be cleaned of the smoke that's accumulated over the past 9 centuries. To end that trip, we went to an adorable bakery and bought some delicious treats. And guess who has pictures of both ;)
Later in the evening, I decided to go see Paris' Opera House done in a beux des arts fashion that was beautiful to see in person.
When we returned to our hotel, we found one of the girls from our group needed to go to the hospital so I volunteered to go along for the ride (she called a taxi because the ambulance refused to come out to our hotel because it's way in the boonies...but that's besides the point). After trying to communicate with the driver who obviously ripped is off and couldn't even bring us to the hospital (we ended up walking the last bit), we finally made it. Anyway, long story short I'm hanging in a Paris hospital late at night...oh, life can be interesting sometimes ;)
Before ending, I have to give an update on our hotel situation. I don't remember what I've mentioned before, but we couldn't find a hotel closer to town because everything is booked. For now, we're staying at a hotel directly by the airport (good thing I sleep like a baby) which we thought we might have had a possibility of leaving since we thought we found another hotel. Turns out that hotel is actually surrounded by an encampment of 300 or so gypsies who try to get into the barricaded (with barbed wire) walls 24/7. Talk about scary town. So we're still staying at the hotel directly under the flight paths ;) but I don't mind. It's all an experience I'll never forget...And it's in Paris! Au revoir!
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