GET THAT CORN OUTTA MY FACE.
bon jour!!! this morning we woke up to our wake up call... oh wait... it was 30 minutes late! haha... woops on their part! anyways, we scrambled and got ready in time for our perfect tour of versailles!!! i fell asleep on the bus again, that seems to be the trend for me on this trip. we got to versailles just before nine o'clock. it was perfect weather, and there weren't very many people yet. happy day for us! we got these snazzy little ear piece things and we could listen to our tour guide. it was grand. anyways, we went all through versailles. it is so amazing. there is gold everywhere, and it is literally blinding. i needed my sunglasses a lot. i loved the hall of mirrors. finally today my humanities class helped me out a bit. the picture in my book just didn't do it justice at all. i saw marie antionette's bedroom and it is so gaudy, but really amazing. the windows all faced the gardens that are so cool. the designs are amazing from above. i will load some of the pictures on here. =) after versailles, we got back on the bus and drove to the louvre. AMAZING! it is huge! our guide said that if we walked through the whole louvre and spent one minute looking at each piece, we would finish in four months. i don't know if he was kidding, but it seems true to me. i saw a bunch of the paintings from my class, and i saw the mona lisa!!! woohoo! it was pretty far away and there were a million people... and there was glass in front of it. but hey, i can say that i saw the mona lisa! that's pretty legit! we wandered through most of the french artwork, and we skimmed the rest. i mostly wanted to see the ballet paintings by degas, but they weren't in the louvre. =( i guess they are in a museum that we are seeing tomorrow, so that's good! i feel very cultured now. haha. after the louvre, we wandered pretty much all of paris looking for this ballet store i saw on our way into paris. the window had a huge pile of pointe shoes, and it was really cool. unfortunately, we couldn't find it. =( after that little adventure, we walked towards the arc du triumph (spelling... again, sorry). we ate dinner at a cute little sidewalk cafe, and i had bruchetta! yummy!!! in the process of this whole walking day, i literally felt like my feet were going to fall off. seriously, they hurt so bad. my ankles are still swollen. i am a wuss i reckon. haha. we got to the arc, and we got to climb up to the top!!! after a long climb, we finally made it (triumph, ha). the view was BEAUTIFUL! you could see all of paris. everything, the eiffel tower, notre dame, the louvre, the river... it was great. i took a landscape picture that looks pretty cool. i also got a really cute tin with caramels in it, and it has the eiffel tower on the front... definitely my kind of little box. haha. anyways, after the arc du triumph, we took the metro (way scary considering i don't speak french), and went back to our hotel! we didn't even get lost (hardly...). =) now we are back for the night, and i get to sleep in until 8. you have no idea how happy this makes me. =D haha.
good night! sleep well!!!
1 comment:
Jessica love!! It sounds like you are having a fabulous time but it also sounds like you are running on some serious lacking of sleep. You should catch up on that. I love that you went and saw all the famous artwork. I would love that, probably from all the Dan Brown books. hahaha. But it sounds like a wonderful time and I miss you so much!! Have fun!!!
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