France Update

Whoa! I miss out on a lot when I don't check my blog for a week! Thanks to all of you for your interest in my life :) Due to unforeseen internet complications (and frustrations) as well as my ipod freezing all the time for some reason, I haven't been able to access the internet frequently and even when I have, the time has had to be spent on doing stuff for PwC (love the firm, hate the red tape). Anyway...

Where to start? Well, I just feel like it's going to be so inadequate to try to tell you all about Paris because I can't possibly recreate my experience. I'll just say I had a phenominal experience in Paris. I absolutely loved it and fell in love with the city (nothing like Robyn's experience, for those of you who follow her blog too). Only by popular demand will I give a list of the majority of things we did in Paris (sadly there won't be any pictures).

*Walked the Champs Elysees
*Arc De Triumph- climbed up top
*The Louvre- Mona Lisa of course
*Musee L'Orangerie (my favorite museum- Monet's water lillies... rooms and rooms of them!)
*Musee D'Orsay (just for you Dad, because you said you love it so much. Saw a couple of original Van Goghs there, which was cool. I just loved seening the building though- it is a train station converted into a museum)
*The Tulleries Gardens (my ABSOLUTE favorite place in Paris)
*walking by the Seine- street painters, entertainers
*Notre Dame- mass on Sunday, fed the birds outside (or at least tried to), bread from the bread festival outside
*Crepes! Lots of crepes. We found the BEST crepe place on about the third day we were there and from that point on only ate there, no matter where in the city we were. They wer huge and so amazingly delicious. They didn't even compare to any of the other crepes in the city
*Versailles (unfortunately biking didn't work out Cam)- beautiful. I loved Marie Antoinette's village at the back- I could totally picture myself playing there with my sisters when we were little... or now :)
*Eiffel Tower- went to the top one night, and had a picnic below it the last night (cheese, bread, chocolate, sparkling cider)- it was the favorite experience for all of us
*Read in the park
*Attended the French ward
*Paris Opera House- beautiful... I want to see an Opera there someday
*Sacre Coure- also beautiful and also just for you Dad
*Saint Chappell- (stained glass windows of the entire Bible) half of it was under construction, but the rest was great
*Van Gogh's house
*Moulin Rouge
*Pantheon crypt- saw the resting place of Marie Curie, Victor Hugo, Dumas, Louis Braille
*Shakespeare Bookstore (oldest bookstore in the world... supposedly)- I purchased The Hunchback of Notre Dame - thought that was fitting :)
*rode the Chunnel to London- half our group missed it... that was exciting

That's all I can think of... I hope that satisfies and that I can stay part of the family!! I love you all!