Au Revoir La France! =(

Sooo. I'm sitting in the Charles de Gaulle Airport waiting for my flight.  Paris was very relaxing and fun but I'm so ready to see my family! Tuesday morning I got up early and went to the Louvre.  Maureen and I decided that we LOVE going to museums alone because you can go fast when you want to and slow when you want to.  At the Louvre, I looked at French, Spanish, and Italian sculptures.  I also went to see the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo again.  It was really nice to be able to go back being older and all, but I really don't feel as though I got the full experience.  I would like to take some art history classes before I return again so I can have a fuller appreciation for what I'm looking at.  I got lunch at a place near the opera house, which was nice.  It's so weird to eat alone but I am so used to it now.  Afterward, I took the metro and got off near the Musee Galliera, or Musee de la Mode (fashion museum).  Unfortunately, it was closed and doesn't open again til late November.  That was a bummer! After that, I went back to my hotel and grabbed a pizza to go at a little Italian place.  I showered, got ready, and went out with Maureen and her friends in her program.  It was the funniest thing, but I saw this kid Todd I know from Michigan.  He is hooking up with Maureen's roommate, who is way too hot for him.  My theory is that girls have lower self-confidence than they should and guys have higher self-confidence than they should, so you always see girls who are too pretty for the guys they are with.  Seriously, look around it's true.  The boys treat them like shit too because they think they are so cool because they can get such a hot girl.  Not true.  Not all, but a lot of girls realize this (still my theory) and realize how much better they can do after the fact.  Smart guys will realize this during the fact and step up their game to keep the girl.  Dumb ones are jerks and act like idiots, lose the girl, and never find a girl that measures up.  Moving on, we went bar-hopping in Paris...stayed out til 3 a.m. etc.  I went back to my hotel and slept in and Maureen and I went to lunch at her favorite gyro place.  So bad, but so good.  Afterward we went to the Musee d'Orsay, and we split up and agreed on a place to meet in a few hours, since we both like exploring museums alone so much!  I like Musee d'Orsay better than the Louvre because there are more things that I recognize and it's actually air-conditioned.  I saw a lot of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, and more.  I would like to go back there someday.  Last night we got dinner at an Italian place.  I had mussels and pasta, it was good.  Maureen had a really yummy pizza.  Afterwards I went home and packed.  This morning I woke up, took bus 91 to Gare de Lyon, and caught a shuttle from there to the airport.  It only cost 15 euro.  It was very easy, way easier than the metro (which I am still sore from dragging my bags from Gare de Lyon to Avenue de Gobelin where the hotel was).  I probably waited like 45 minutes for the shuttle to come and I made buddies with this couple who lives in Paris but is on their way to Hong Kong for few weeks.  The girl just finished college and she was sooo cute.  She was wearing these tortoise shell RayBan eyeglasses, and I was in lovvve.  I really want another pair of glasses.  Ooh. Boarding is delayed 10 minutes!  Bummer.  Anyway, her boyfriend was cute too.  Really tall with dark hair and blue eyes.  They were so nice.  We sat by each other on the bus and talked the whole time, and I ended up friending her on Facebook.  Gotta love Facebook.  Well I board in about 10 minutes, so I'm gonna wrap up this post.  See ya in the mitten!