Roaming around the streets of Paris with my little sister and Spanish friend was sort of a dream come true. We hit lots of museums, shops, street food, sights, and metro stops.
First crepe of the trip! I got coconut nutella
Modern art installation I didn't hate.
The L'orangerie. One of my favorite museums. It's small, filled with great art and located by the Louvre. It's just lovely.
Waterlillies. You must see them in person.
Amorino. nuf said.
These reeeeealllly intrigued me
Ceiling of Galleries LaFayette.
Pretty cool mall, non?
Victor's smize
The view is pretty alright.
Repetto!!!!!!
Not sure what this was, but it was neat
Saint Chapelle
I saw this lock on Love Lock Bridge and couldn't stop laughing. #friendzoned
We saw tons of brides along the trip
Clouds are one of my very favorite things ever.
Breath. Taking.
Victor smuggled some locks off the bridge and felt pretty cool about it. Look at that smug face.
On our way home from church. The English translation stopped, so a missionary had to come up front and translate as he heard the French speaker through a headpiece. I loved seeing the missionaries!!
Rodin museum
The canopy of leaves was ethereal
I feel like this statue is beckoning me somewhere. But where?.....
Channeling our inner Rodin
The Kiss
Funny story. On a link from Pinterest, I found this cool bridge thing (the one that inspired the Highline in New York) called Promenades Plantes. I put it into GoogleMaps and thought we'd find it easily. It was a little on the Parisian outskirts, but look how safe and beautiful this square was? We were totally fine and safe. So anyway, we can not find it and we get hungry and go into a market. Even the checkout lady didn't know what we were talking about, neither did the manager. So we wondered down the street and picked a little park to eat in. Next door were a bunch of teenagers eating and talking and across the street some black people conversing. We just laughed at the unusual situation and enjoyed our French grocery store packaged food.
Stained glass amazes me
Cluny Museum
How they created these with such detail, shading and precision and beauty? I'll never know
I believe in unicorns.
Sorbonne
Amorino. My Parisian love affair. One cup is 3.60 euros and worth every overpriced cent.
60 stairs up to our place. After a day of walking 10+ miles, our legs definitely felt it
Stand ye in holy places, at all times and in all things and in all places.
Favorite pizza ever. Seriously, that piece of pizza will forever live in my memory.
The cutest box of mints that I of course simply could not resist
Since we got there early, we skipped the videos in the beginning of the tour and had almost all the rooms to ourselves!!
Deserted!!
It was so hot. So so so hot and I was wearing a black dress. Hahaha but the gardens were still magnificent and we spent a lot of time in them
Marie Antoinette's personal theatre
Marie Antoinette's village where she went to pretend she was a peasant. Meanwhile the real peasants were starving to death.
Views out the train
This obviously doesn't do it justice, but the moon was absolutely spectacular peaking up from the rooftops
Banana Nutella Crepe. Three of the most beautiful words of all time.
Had to try this bakery on Micaela's request. The fig macaroon was splendid.
Cute pic huh? Ruby is quite the photographer
Our train left at the end of the day, so we had a few hours to kill without Victor and after checking out of our apartment. It was so flippin hot, so we spent a while eating our paninis and coke in the upstairs of a restaurant right by our place. Mozzarella, tomato, basil, mmmmmm....
Then we went over to Ile de la cite after sitting in the park (the one with the oldest tree, by Shakespeare & Co. and across from Notre Dame)
This store had Magnum bars for pretty cheap so I went in to get one just as a lady was closing the door. I asked her (in English) if it was closed or if she owned the place. She let me in, took my money and then closed the door. I'm still pretty sure she was the owner, but Ruby heard her laughing with some guys afterwards, so she's a little suspicious. Either way, it was good!
**heart-eyed emoji**
Gare du Nord. It looks pretty nice and elegant right? It's not. Inside, is a hustling, crowded, not, chaotic train station with tons of people and a sex shop down the street. Apparently, there's a lot of drug deals there too. And we spent like 5 hours there. Ya, it was a little miserable. Our train was delayed 2 hours, then when we finally got on the train, it didn't move for 2 hours.
Because of the delays (caused by heat waves) they gave everyone free water bottles. YES!
Looking for the good in the situation. People playing cards
A kid playing the piano
The really cool looking board
My friend Cole gave me these Harry Potter goodies because "I was going to Europe so they were necessary." It made riding the train so much more fun!
Until we tried the sausage flavored jelly bean.
And the vomit
And the grass
...Ruby really liked the soap one though. hahaha no comment.
Finally we made it to Lille. The Laveissieres picked us up and we were back at their gorgeous home
Nice stash dude
Yep. Voltaire. No biggie.
The Madeleine
Swatch store! Buy a Swatch, pay 25 euros for a surprise one. I got the surprise and it had a boy's Swatch I'm sending to Evyn
Versailles
We weren't planning on going, but after we did everything we really wanted to in Paris and Victor found out we'd never been, we looked up directions and decided to go the next morning. We left early so we'd avoid the lines and took a quick and easy T-Train out of the city and to Louis XIV's palace. I had to pay 25 euros because I'm an adult, but Ruby and Victor we free and could head straight to the entrance line. Luckily, I was able to join them in that line after purchasing my ticket because I frantically told a security guy I was my sister's chaperone and she was headed in. A little dramatic, but I was not about to wait in the already growing line in the blazing sun.
This store had Magnum bars for pretty cheap so I went in to get one just as a lady was closing the door. I asked her (in English) if it was closed or if she owned the place. She let me in, took my money and then closed the door. I'm still pretty sure she was the owner, but Ruby heard her laughing with some guys afterwards, so she's a little suspicious. Either way, it was good!
Finally we made it to Lille. The Laveissieres picked us up and we were back at their gorgeous home
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