It's about time I blogged about our trip! It was WONDERFULLY AMAZING! I shall tell the tale as briefly as possible. We arrived in Paris at 11 AM and went straight here:
It was so exciting to see la Tour Eiffel!
Then we decided to go up to the top, since it was mostly sunny. When I looked at the weather before we left, it was rain every single day and COLD! So since it was mostly sunny, we decided to go up right then, even it was a 2 hour wait.......
Isn't this cool? The shadow of the Eiffel Tower! It is a very impressive view. Early the next morning, we took a train for here:
Bordeaux. As most of you know, when I was 16 I lived in Bordeaux with a French family. Almost ten years later, we still keep in contact and the daughter of that family, Capucine, is one of my best friends. Here we are:
I love this girl more than anything! Here's a pic of some of the family, note the stereotypical French mustache:
LOVE these people! Moi, Stéphan, Lodoïs, Patricia
And here with are with some of the most lovely people in the world: my French grandparents, BonPapa and BonneMaman. They took us on a special trip to Cap Ferret, which is one of my favorite places in the whole world. You can probably see why:
It was a gorgeous day, but still pretty cold, so we didn't get in the water. But we had fun!
After a few days, we left Bordeaux and went to Montreux Switzerland. The weather there wasn't great, but it was still GORGEOUS!
Bonus points if you know who this is! Okay, it's Freddy Mercury-- he lived in Montreux, that's how awesome Montreux is.
In Montreux we also discovered the coolest thing ever... Chocolate Chips... get it? The funny thing is, they don't have chocolate chips (like for cookies) in Europe, so they don't realized how funny it truly is. After Montreux, we went back to Paris, where we were nonstop for 4 days. It was awesome and exhausting! Here are some highlights:
Notre Dame
Montmartre at the Sacre Coeur--look at this lovely bereted woman who made it into the photo!
L'arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées
Our friends from DC, Casey and Allie who also spent Spring Break in Paris.
The Gates of Hell at the Rodin Museum
The most overrated painting in the world.
One of my favorite paintings in the world, and subsequently, the topic of my thesis.
VERSAILLES! We spent 7 hours there!
Marie Antoinette's little village-- my favorite part of Versailles. It started pouring rain the second we got there!
The gorgeous Eiffel Tower at night... love it!
And we started our trip as it began.... it was definitely one of my favorite vacations of all time. It was so heartwarming to get to show this huge part of my life to Neal, and he LOVED it! Now we're back, jetlagged, and missing France like crazy!
