la vie en rose: Hot Chocolate and Walk #5

21:38 28/4/16

I was on time for class today!!!!! Even though my alarm didn't wake me up this morning, by some sort of miracle I only woke up 15 minutes later than I had planned #blessup we are actually getting a lot better with finding our way to the metro stop in our area which is pretty dang awesome. after class we headed out to find a lunch place. being the cheapskate that I am, I made a sandwich and grabbed some cuties this morning so while everyone was eating their nice food my roommate and I pulled out our sandwiches wrapped in aluminum foil and I peeled my cuties and ate that haha then we started walk #5 "Place de la Concorde: The Guillotine and More
After lunch we headed over to Place Clemenceau and the sun was out so we sat and enjoyed that while we waited for the other group to show up. Then we gave up on them and started the walk anyways haha. We started walking down Champs-Elysées and man if I had about $100,000 to spend I'd buy a water bottle there. But the street was so beautiful and we passed the Palais de l'Elysée (gorgeous) and the Ministry of the Interior. Our walks book told us to be careful about taking pictures of the government building so that we would not look sketchy. We also passed the US Embassy. Needless to say, with all of these government buildings there were lots of police with very big guns.
After walking down the street we went to Place de la Concorde where they have the Luxor Obelisk and a big ferris wheel. It was so cool to be there and see the Obelisk up close! They also had a pretty sweet fountain so of course we took some pics in front of it. After that we headed to a little museum (Orangerie) right next to le Jardin des Tuileries where they had the Nymphéas exhibit up!!! (aka Monet's water lily paintings!) After that we wandered down to the end of the Jardin to l'Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. And that was the end of the walk! Definitely shorter than yesterdays haha
After the walk we went to Angelina which is right next to the Jardin des Tuileries and ohmygoodness we all agreed that the hot chocolate was the best we had ever had. like ever. I really mean it. We waited in line to get seated and it was totally worth it. We sat and relaxed there for at LEAST an hour and had a nice chance to just sit and talk.
After rejuvenating at Angelina we all went our separate ways and my roommate and I took the metro back over to the Notre Dame area and we were actually able to go inside Shakespeare and Co. and I finally got my book! yay! ("I know why the caged bird sings" if any of you were wondering) then we took to metro home.
My host mom just came in to talk to us (warning: sorry bout to get a little religious up in here) and she was asking about our families and we were talking about how our dads/families were coming at the end of the program and how both of our dads served missions for our church in France (hers in Paris and mine in Lyon) and then I mentioned how I was actually getting ready to serve a mission in Lyon as well and she started asking us questions about missions and she told me how it would be such an incredible experience for me. I don't know if anyone else felt it, but for me the spirit was so strong in the room during the conversation and it was such a witness to me of how I am supposed to serve and it made me so much more excited to go! It has helped strengthen my testimony of God how provides countless tender mercies to His children.
All in all, it was a wonderful day and I am actually going to try to head to bed soon because we have an earlier day tomorrow because we are headed off to Cathédral de Chartes.