You would think that after having lived in Paris for nine months, I would have checked off every item on my “Things To Do Before I Leave Paris” list.  Wrong.  I somehow managed to leave all of the big things until the last, I kid you not, week of my stay.  Things like going to the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Marmottan, and countless others.  Although, strangely, I don’t at all regret it.  I spent my last weeks doing other things and making amazing memories with amazing people.  And to be fair, I had already been to both the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre when I first came to Paris two years ago, but of course didn’t spend nearly enough time in either of them, as I was only in the city for literally 12 hours.

There were a few things on my list that I was able to check off, thanks to German and Mathieu:

– have one last crêpe at the crêpe stand in front of the Eiffel Tower by the carousel

– take a picture with the “LOVE ME” graffiti on the Pont d’Iéna

– film an OOTD in Place de la Concorde

– visit the Père Lachaise cemetery

– visit Rue Princesse (mainly because Ycare has a song called Rue Princesse)

– climb the Arc de Triomphe

– ride the shortest metro line (3bis)

That’s Mathieu with his little Pink Floyd backpack!

– take some photos of me and my then boyfriend, Mathieu

– go to the first bakery I went to when I first came to Paris two years ago and order something in French (something I had been too scared to do the first time around)

– picnic on the Champs de Mars

Don’t look at the girl in front taking a selfie, but look at the couple in the middle who are just enjoying the hell out of this moment.

– take a photo in a Photomaton booth in the metro

– go to a typical French café

Ended up going to a bunch my last week.

Paris was good to me.  I did so much, but I still have so much to do the next time I’m there.  That’s why I love this city.

Bisous.