Week 3: Louvre, French Open, and London visit :)

After Normandy we hit the week off with a visit to the Louvre!!! I got to see the Mona Lisa, the Grande Odalisque and various other incredible pieces of art that I have studied in my art history class. It was awesome. On Wednesday Devan and I traveled to the French Open in search of tickets to see Nadal, the love of my life. We payed 125 euros a piece and got in to the Susan Langdon court and not only did we get to see Nadal play, but we also saw Sharapova, Kendrick, and later Venus Williams played at that court. It was awesome. Nadal walked right past me after his victory. He's a fox. It was a great experience and we got to stay there until about 7 p.m. ...so we were there for like 7 straight hours. Insane. On Thursday my class had a debate about whether or not Turkey should be admitted into the European Union...the other classes came to watch. Things got heated. It was an intense debate. After that a group of about 12 of our girls got ready and packed our bags for London! We took the chunnel train and got there at about 6, checked into our hotel which was right across from the ritz in central london and then got ready very quickly for our musical Les Miserables!!!! Before the show we each got a glass of wine and then watched the first act...i cried, what's new. Another glass of wine later and the second act under way i was a complete basket-case... this musical is incredible. And the girl who played Eponine was amazing. Brought me to tears... lots of tears. The story is just so moving. It was a great night. Then we topped it off by going to a club called On Anon. It was 4 stories and filled with some attractive european men, we made friends with a couple german boys and then these really cute British ones. Maddie and I walked home at around 2 a.m., and that was seen as early. The next morning we went touring the city, starting at Buckingham Palace and watching the changing of the guards, then visiting Big Ben, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Parliament, Thames River, etc. We walked around and came back to the hotel to get ready and head to 'Tiger Tiger' for another clubbing adventure. It was a night to remember. Mary Catherine was danced upon by a man in a turban and the spitting image of William Hung... plus i found "Raoul". But i let the moment pass me by when I decided to leave early again... probably a bad move. But if it's meant to be.... well we all know it's not so scratch that. Saturday we went to Shakespeare's globe theatre and to the London Tower. We also saw all the different bridges (London, Tower, Waterloo...) and took a cruise on the Thames River. It was a great way to finish off the trip. Now we are back in Paris and we have a few days of class before we leave Wednesday for Nice!!!! And Musee d'Orsay is tomorrow... updates coming soon!