Aunt Pam, call me, and I'll set up a viewing for you!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Home at last!!!
Jim Morrison's Grave
Chateau de Chenonceau
Chateau de Chambord
Monet's water lily ponds
Part of Monet's French garden
Beautiful red poppies!
I am home at last and now I am heading to bed before my body completely refuses to move.
It's good to be home.
I'll post more later.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
last night in paris!!!
I'm sitting on my bed in my apartment/hotel on my last night in Paris experiencing my first thunderstorm of spring.
I don't think there there is better way to end the trip then with a really hard, really loud thunderstorm.
Rain washes away the old, and encourages growth.
I think, in a way traveling does that too.
Experiencing something new, something completely opposite from the way that you have decided things should be, can only cause a traveler to come home a little different from when they left.
For me I don't think that it is going to be big changes, and they may only be noticeable to me, but traveling changes a person.
Traveling for me, always makes me long for the things that I thought were insignificant at home, or the things that I took for granted.
Traveling is amazing, but coming home is always better. It's almost sweeter, and more satisfying than the trip itself.
Tomorrow I leave the fine city of Paris, and will come home.
I miss my bed, I miss my city, I miss my space, and mostly, I just miss Jason.
So au revoir to the city of lights.
I am coming home.
p.s. sorry about no pictures the last couple of nights, I have a ton, but the internet has been sketchy and hasn't been letting me post them. But, don't worry, I have a ton to post when I am at home.
I don't think there there is better way to end the trip then with a really hard, really loud thunderstorm.
Rain washes away the old, and encourages growth.
I think, in a way traveling does that too.
Experiencing something new, something completely opposite from the way that you have decided things should be, can only cause a traveler to come home a little different from when they left.
For me I don't think that it is going to be big changes, and they may only be noticeable to me, but traveling changes a person.
Traveling for me, always makes me long for the things that I thought were insignificant at home, or the things that I took for granted.
Traveling is amazing, but coming home is always better. It's almost sweeter, and more satisfying than the trip itself.
Tomorrow I leave the fine city of Paris, and will come home.
I miss my bed, I miss my city, I miss my space, and mostly, I just miss Jason.
So au revoir to the city of lights.
I am coming home.
p.s. sorry about no pictures the last couple of nights, I have a ton, but the internet has been sketchy and hasn't been letting me post them. But, don't worry, I have a ton to post when I am at home.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Paris...days 4 & 5
This is how I make coffee in the morning.
I heat up water in the thing on the right and pour it through the filter with coffee that is on it on top of the pot...strange I know, but no one will get out of bed until coffee is made!
More coffee from a Paris McDonalds, and that's the LARGE!
The metro station on a Saturday at Sacre Coeur stop. CRAZY!
Waiting for the metro
I know I already posted pictures of me and the Eiffel tower, but my sister informed me that I looked like a 70 year old Russian woman in it, so I had to take another one for her.
Is this better Andrea?
A night out on the town with the girls!
Hotel de Ville
Fire Dancers in front of Notre Dam at midnight.
A very sad Moulin Rouge!
Friday, May 23, 2008
the night i fell in love with Paris
I am not able to post pictures for some reason.
But I need to update on the amazing night we had tonight.
I know that yesterday I said that it was a bad day, but really it was...and I'm a girl...I'm moody...and I accept that!!! :)
Today was beautiful in Paris. We went to two different museums that had paintings by artists that I had been waiting to see.
We also went to the biggest church in Paris which is up on a hill over looking the city (and very close the the red light district of Paris)
We walked to the Moulin Rouge, but it looked nothing like the movie....nothing ever is!
At 8 we went to a restaurant where we payed a flat rate and were given a ton of food and all the wine we could drink (for me not very much)
After dinner we were stuffed and tired, but we decided to walk along the river where people were gathered in groups everywhere.
They were drinking wine, eating, making out, having drum circles...etc.
Then we walked to the very front of the Notre Dam where there were flame throwers, amazing really.
And since us girls were all dressed up, we received quite a bit of attention.
All in all this was the night I finally fell in love with Paris and the spirit and energy of the city.
During the day running around from place to place it's easy to lose sight of the fact that we are IN PARIS!!!! Tonight we were able to just soak everything in, and get a real feel of the city.
But I need to update on the amazing night we had tonight.
I know that yesterday I said that it was a bad day, but really it was...and I'm a girl...I'm moody...and I accept that!!! :)
Today was beautiful in Paris. We went to two different museums that had paintings by artists that I had been waiting to see.
We also went to the biggest church in Paris which is up on a hill over looking the city (and very close the the red light district of Paris)
We walked to the Moulin Rouge, but it looked nothing like the movie....nothing ever is!
At 8 we went to a restaurant where we payed a flat rate and were given a ton of food and all the wine we could drink (for me not very much)
After dinner we were stuffed and tired, but we decided to walk along the river where people were gathered in groups everywhere.
They were drinking wine, eating, making out, having drum circles...etc.
Then we walked to the very front of the Notre Dam where there were flame throwers, amazing really.
And since us girls were all dressed up, we received quite a bit of attention.
All in all this was the night I finally fell in love with Paris and the spirit and energy of the city.
During the day running around from place to place it's easy to lose sight of the fact that we are IN PARIS!!!! Tonight we were able to just soak everything in, and get a real feel of the city.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
I do exsit!!!
on the RER train
On top of Tour Eiffel
a really bad picture of me
cassie and I at the Louvre
finally finding a metro station after a 1/2 hour of looking
I'm not posting pictures of today's travels in Paris.
It was not a good day for me.
home sickness and sore feet do not fare well with me.
until tomorrow.....
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Paris....day 2
The Louvre
closer the eiffel tower...in the touleries
closer......on top of the Arc de Triomphe
On top!!!!
It took FOREVER, and i'm not kidding, but it was so worth it to be up at the top of the Eiffel tower at night.
So Fricken cool.
The Mona Lisa (behind bullet proof glass, and that is about as close as you can get.)
I have a ton more pictures but they will have to wait until I get back. I need to go to bed.
(oh and I got to talk to Jason today...FINALLY...i am a happy girl now!)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Paris...day 1
I made it! I am in Paris!! Finally. Just kidding. It seems like the trip is flying.
We took a motor coach here from Brussels.
As soon as we got into our hotel/apartment rooms we were off again to the open air market to by fruits and veggies and really anything else if we wanted it.
Then to the Supermarche (supermarket) for some of the essentials....(salt!)
After we put our groceries away we hopped on the metro and went to the St. Michel fountain, and then walked to Notre Dam.
What an amazing church.
And to think at one point they were going to tear it down.
The pictures below are all from Notre Dam.
Sorry that is all the pictures I have from Paris.
It was a long day again, going single file, and stopping for a picture is sometimes impossible.
Lately I have been caring my point and shoot in my pocket just so i don't have to lug my camera out of my new orange purse every time I want to take a picture.
That camera is soooo heavy, I think that I am going to have some back issues after this, but I love that camera and it takes such good pictures.
I will have to take some pictures of our apartment so you understand just how small it is.
There are 2 girls in the bedroom, and 2 girls on the pull out couch in the living room.
At least we all get along.
I am not sure what we are doing tomorrow, but I am heading to bed now.
We took a motor coach here from Brussels.
As soon as we got into our hotel/apartment rooms we were off again to the open air market to by fruits and veggies and really anything else if we wanted it.
Then to the Supermarche (supermarket) for some of the essentials....(salt!)
After we put our groceries away we hopped on the metro and went to the St. Michel fountain, and then walked to Notre Dam.
What an amazing church.
And to think at one point they were going to tear it down.
The pictures below are all from Notre Dam.
Sorry that is all the pictures I have from Paris.
It was a long day again, going single file, and stopping for a picture is sometimes impossible.
Lately I have been caring my point and shoot in my pocket just so i don't have to lug my camera out of my new orange purse every time I want to take a picture.
That camera is soooo heavy, I think that I am going to have some back issues after this, but I love that camera and it takes such good pictures.
I will have to take some pictures of our apartment so you understand just how small it is.
There are 2 girls in the bedroom, and 2 girls on the pull out couch in the living room.
At least we all get along.
I am not sure what we are doing tomorrow, but I am heading to bed now.
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