forget where you're from-you're in France!

Paris part two:

Notre Dame Cathedral, not the school.  400 steps later I made it to the top.  A little scary, but mostly beautiful and amazing.  My favorite part about looking out over cities is seeing the church steeples.  Words cannot describe the beauty.

(if you look just to the right of my head, you can see the eiffel tower.  It was foggy, so it is a looks like a shadow on the horizon)

Versailles: Gaudy palace for royalty that doesn't exist anymore.  Don't go during the winter, it's ugly. Luckily, we found tandem bikes for rent!

The weather was beautiful, and really, although the trees were brown, just being outside in the fresh air laughing and being with friends was amazing.

france=yummy food!

Luxembourg Gardens.  Stay away from greasy looking, smoking young men.  This led to choosing fake names.  If I don't know you and I don't trust you and you ask me my name I will tell you Samantha.  I go by Sam.

The Pantheon(in Paris).  Beautiful, but cold.  The coolest part was the crypt.  Many influential people were buried in the Pantheon including Marie Curie, Braille, 

The Louvre.  After a looooong day it is not smart to end with the Louvre.  All of the artwork was AMAZING, but the entire experience was tainted by our physical and mental exhaustion.  Feet were throbbing, blisters were popping, tears were falling(not in a good way).  Advice for future Paris/Louvre goers: Give yourselves HOURS if not an entire DAY to spend here.  We spent over 2 hours and we had a list of only 9 works of art to find/see.

hall of statues

crown jewels

mona lisa

(don't remember what this is called, but I learned about it in humanities last year and just happened to stumble upon it)

the lace maker(?)

Napoleon's apartments

Venus Di Milo

winged victory

How we all felt.

Paris was beautiful and amazing.  I started the week with low expectations, and my expectations were exceeded.  I want to return to Paris one day for sure.