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updating all the way from paris, hooray!
it's lovely here, really. all stereotypes about the romance and elegance of paris are completely true (at least as far as i can tell after one day here...) it just has this certain charm about it, you can't quite put it into words but there's something in the air here. and they have eclairs. mmmm.
we arrived here in the early afternoon after a somewhat exhausting trip on the eurostar. i can't believe i was in the chunnel! aaah! there might have been sharks swimming above me!
anyway... yeah. we came to our lovely hotel on the rue dauphine and then set off to notre dame cathedral, which was absolutely amazing. mommy says she thinks it's the most beautiful cathedral in europe, and although i haven't seen nearly as many cathedrals in europe as she has, i'm sure i'd agree. i like visiting cathedrals, but usually i'm rather so-so about them. notre dame was definitely not something to be so-so about. it was amazing. i know nothing about architecture, but there was something just perfect about the way it was built, especially the inside of it. i loved all the different beautiful stained-glass windows and the way the arches met on the ceiling and how it all flowed together so whatever angle you were looking from, it looked perfect. it didn't have a very religious feel to me, more a show of "look how cool our building is!", but i didn't mind that. (i did, however, have a strong urge to buy one of the rosaries that was on sale at the gift shop for jamesy... teehee... but i decided that it wasn't worth buying something just to piss someone off.)
then mommy and i left grandma to sleep while we went to the jardin du luxembourg (lovely gardens/park around the palais du luxembourg, which is apparently where the senate now meets). they were very pretty, beautiful flowers growing and whatnot, not much really to describe... i think that paris is really an atmosphere more than anything else, nothing you can put into words or even pictures, something you really have to experience. i'm glad i'm gonna have the opportunity to experience it at least a little bit.
rue dauphine, where our hotel is (our hotel is the blue lighted sign, yay!)
a really awesome looking clothes shop on our street... grandma thinks it's too "provocative", but i think it's awesome.
the pont neuf, a famous bridge that we crossed to get to notre dame...
notre dame!!!
notre dame again, because it's just that cool.
several pictures inside notre dame, because they don't mind people taking pictures there
the famous rose windows... (sorry it's so big, i didn't wanna ruin the quality)
an ordinary little street in paris..
the jardin du luxembourg and palais du luxembourg
a little pond with a cool statue thing that was apparently supposed to be venus rising from the water
and one more of the jardin du luxembourg...
yeah, i know that was really long, but they're all so pretty... *sigh*
it's lovely here, really. all stereotypes about the romance and elegance of paris are completely true (at least as far as i can tell after one day here...) it just has this certain charm about it, you can't quite put it into words but there's something in the air here. and they have eclairs. mmmm.
we arrived here in the early afternoon after a somewhat exhausting trip on the eurostar. i can't believe i was in the chunnel! aaah! there might have been sharks swimming above me!
anyway... yeah. we came to our lovely hotel on the rue dauphine and then set off to notre dame cathedral, which was absolutely amazing. mommy says she thinks it's the most beautiful cathedral in europe, and although i haven't seen nearly as many cathedrals in europe as she has, i'm sure i'd agree. i like visiting cathedrals, but usually i'm rather so-so about them. notre dame was definitely not something to be so-so about. it was amazing. i know nothing about architecture, but there was something just perfect about the way it was built, especially the inside of it. i loved all the different beautiful stained-glass windows and the way the arches met on the ceiling and how it all flowed together so whatever angle you were looking from, it looked perfect. it didn't have a very religious feel to me, more a show of "look how cool our building is!", but i didn't mind that. (i did, however, have a strong urge to buy one of the rosaries that was on sale at the gift shop for jamesy... teehee... but i decided that it wasn't worth buying something just to piss someone off.)
then mommy and i left grandma to sleep while we went to the jardin du luxembourg (lovely gardens/park around the palais du luxembourg, which is apparently where the senate now meets). they were very pretty, beautiful flowers growing and whatnot, not much really to describe... i think that paris is really an atmosphere more than anything else, nothing you can put into words or even pictures, something you really have to experience. i'm glad i'm gonna have the opportunity to experience it at least a little bit.
rue dauphine, where our hotel is (our hotel is the blue lighted sign, yay!)
a really awesome looking clothes shop on our street... grandma thinks it's too "provocative", but i think it's awesome.
the pont neuf, a famous bridge that we crossed to get to notre dame...
notre dame!!!
notre dame again, because it's just that cool.
several pictures inside notre dame, because they don't mind people taking pictures there
the famous rose windows... (sorry it's so big, i didn't wanna ruin the quality)
an ordinary little street in paris..
the jardin du luxembourg and palais du luxembourg
a little pond with a cool statue thing that was apparently supposed to be venus rising from the water
and one more of the jardin du luxembourg...
yeah, i know that was really long, but they're all so pretty... *sigh*