Paris is always a good idea.

Couldn't possibly become more of a tourist...

Audrey Hepburn sure did know what she was talking about! This weekend, I skipped over to Paris to hang out with one of my friends from University that I've known since day 1. K and I are were in the same Scholars program at OSU (IA was basically a University-sponsored club with different international themed programming where students who were interested in different cultures and who liked traveling all lived in the same dorm freshman year) and we were in the same English class during the first semester. Having survived (very punny because the theme of our freshman writing course was survival lol) Mary Hannah (could never figure out if our TA's name was Mary or Hannah since it would show up differently with every email...) and Bolivian literature together, not to mention the actual trip to Bolivia!!, we decided to take on Paris.

A and I always have a wonderful time!

From the very  moment that we saw each other from the opposite sides of the pyramid at the Louvre (one of the little ones. We'd have to have bionic vision to be able to see through the big one!) and we excitedly skipped/ ran/ hunchback of NotreDame sideskidded to each other into a giant hug, I knew that this weekend was going to be one of laughter, shenanigans and happiness but I never imagined how much joy traveling with K would bring me. We wandered around the streets of Paris finding all of the monuments and important looking buildings, explored (eventually dragging ourselves) the whole of Versailles and spent a socially unacceptable amount of time looking at the roosters, ducks and peacocks for girls from small towns in Ohio, ate an obscene amount of cheese in a cheese fondue and tartiflette with my spectacular Parisian friend A, stayed in a friend from French high school's studio apartment and managed to get dressed 3 times in the complete dark, stumbled into Notre Dame literally 5 minutes before Mass and getting to hear the church fill to the brim with Organ music, discover the Louvre and the wonder of the petite Mona Lisa and in general, have a marvelous time. During our picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower, We managed to break all of the societal norms when it came to the Camembert cheese from forgetting a knife and having to tears it with our hands to forgetting the cheese itself and leaving it to ripen in my backpack. All in all, these weekend was another moment in time where Paris called to me, I answered and she didn't fail to please!

It was so special seeing K here in Paris. I've seen so few people from my life back in Ohio here in Europe that it's so nice to see some familiar faces. It's always  surreal to create lifelong memories abroad with people who are apart of my regular, boring old life. I hope that throughout my entire life, I will be blessed with the opportunity to continue traveling with lifelong friends.

So happy to have spent a glorious weekend in Paris with K