So my original plan to come to Paris for NYE was to see fireworks out of the Eiffel Tower. That was crushed by Melanie who told me Paris don't do fireworks on NYE, there is a light show on the Arc de Triomphe & everyone goes to Champ Elysees instead. Ok, disappointing I won't see fireworks but it'll still be cool to see the light show.
A girl in my dorm asked if she could come with me so that was ok. At 10.30pm we got the train to the city. The train was packed! We got off and walked up the street towards the Arc de Triomphe. There were armed police & army guys with automatic rifles everywhere. We ended up going down a side street to get a better view and got utterly and completely squashed. It was chaos! We found a good spot and stopped. It was 11.15pm. There were lights on the Arc & they were pretty. At 11.20pm new lights came on. Every picture for the next 25mins or so had the clock and a different theme. It was awesome. Then are like 11.45pm thry started playing this clip of a black cat (I think it's a well known black cat, I've seen the picture a lot but I'm yet to Google it) who is doing all sorts of things. Running, jumping, going to fashion week etc. It was very cute! Video usd in YouTube of the cat. Then the countdown started! It was exciting! I was curious what kind of light show too expect. Then at midnight BANG!!! Fireworks exploded everywhere! It was sooo awesome! Omg I think they put fireworks on just for me 😁 They only lasted a couple of minutes but they were still great & so unexpected!
After that the crowd began moving back to the main streets and as we were so tightly packed in, everyone moved as one big mass. We got jammed into a train and headed back to the hostel. There was a party in the basement club so we went down to check it out. We had a couple of drinks and a dance then 2.30am came around so it was bedtime.
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