Ticket
Very cool . . .
Yayyy France!!
Airplane food . . . it was actually some of the best ravioli I've ever eaten
Me, Fraser, and Corinne . . . lucky us we got to sit together on the plane
Ditto
Map was being shown on the screen all throughout the flight . . . little plane symbol right over Paris!!
Coool plane. Huuuge plane.
Corinne thought it was cool, too.
Fraser was talking . . . haha
All smiling. Funny story: right after we took this picture an employee saw my camera and started flipping out and yelling at us in French that its illegal to take pictures of the plane . . . rebels.
First French sandwich! And it cost like 8E, too. Stupid airport prices.
She was excited.
Sign on the side of a little cafe where we bought the sandwiches: "love making . . . it started with a latte". Funny.
View from second flight, to Nantes.
He has a deviated septum like Daddy so he sleeps with his mouth open . . . FUNNY
Beautiful
Also beautiful, also from second flight
A 15cl BABY can of Coke
More viewage . . .
More . . .
My bed at my home in Nantes
My own little WC (toilette / water-closet)
The whole room
Yayy home! And first shower . . .
Washer
Dryer . . . except they never really used it . . . they just hung up wet clothes around the house for like 3 days until they were dry
Keyboard . . . Look closely!
My family's old house . . . and my French mommy: Annette
French Daddy: Thierry
Thierry and Annette
Dinnering together on my first night
Bowling alley where we went instead of kayaking (too bad) . . . it was pouring rain
Bowling balls at the bowling alley. Pretty much the same stuff in America
Picture of the stop where we get off the tram to walk another 1/2 mile to school
Corinne thinks the tram is awesome (because IT IS)
Picture of the Erdre River that runs through Nantes
Huge grocery store . . . and Annette
All the shopping carts are connected and you have to put a Euro in the slot to remove the chain, then you get the Euro back after the chain is put back in, reconnecting it to the others
Pretty Erdre
Sign about the Erdre
Cool mosaic on a wall seen walking around in Nantes
Zoomed0in of the cool mosaic
Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul - GORGEOUS
A cool building I guess
Cathedral . . .
More cool buildings, just viewage of Nantes
Inside the Cathedral
Another view . . .
And another . . .
Organ in the Cathedral
Nativity picture in the Cathedral
Another view
Drawbridge on the Chateau of Nantes
Chateau
Inside the Chateau
Water - "EAU"
Inside a huge well in the Chateau
Me, Corinne, and Fraser in the Chateau
Haha . . . I guess that cabinet could be dangerous??
Cool wheelchair symbol, don't lie to yourself..you think its cool too
This was on display in the Chateau museum: it used to hold the heart of the Queen!
Found in a shipwreck or something . . . just cool stuff I guess
Katie, Ali, Corinne, and I in the Chateau courtyard
Moat of Chateau
Louise, Nina, and I: some French friends!!!
Big windows: balcony of the King and Queens room
Drinking jus de pomme (AJ) in the Creperie
The creperie
Nantes - stores and streets
McKee and I with some French friends in a park in Nantes
Inside a huge theatre in Nantes
TBS store - I bought TBS shoes a year ago when I had back problems because they force you to walk correctly so it helped me out
Famous Cinema in Nantes
Most famous candy store in all of France
Its so cool: this guy has been doing sidewalk art in pastels for like 20 years . . . and its always of something significant to the time & day. This is a picture of an actor that had just died.
The picture
The guy making the picture
Emma and I bowling one night . . . just chillin with our correspondants
Me and Corinne at the bowling alley
The first show we saw at Puy Du Fou (a park someone created to tell people about the histroy of France). It depicted a war that the French won
The second show we saw - it was crazy because it was a bird show so there were eagles and vultures and all these crazy huge birds flying all around and landing on peoples heads and stuff
Annette and I at Puy Du Fou
Pierre-Emmanuel and I at P{uy Du Fou
Another show we saw - it was about the time of Ceasar and lions eating people and stuff
The Ceasar show
The Coliseum in Puy Du Fou
Pretty trees at Puy Du Fou
Another show - about Musketeers and stuff. Probably my favorite show of all
The last show - about Vikings. Maybe this one was my favorite. Tough call, man.
Little ,misty pond looking very cool at Puy Du Fou
Pierre-Emmanuel and Annette at Puy Du Fou
Me and the same cool pond
The "stage" where the night show was performed
Nice sunburn, eh?
Chateau in the background for the night show
The whole stage for the night show
Beautiful . . .
My translator!
Annette, PE, and I
Spastic-looking fireworks
Birds in the show
Birds again
Birds . . .
Coliseum again
Caesar show again
Annette protecting herself from the sun!
Cool float thing in the Caesar show
Lion in the Caesar show
Journaling while waiting for lunch
Journaling in my room
Katie, Ali, Corinne and I in the CCA room at school
The boulangerie where we made baguettes
Same boulangerie, up close
The dough for the baguettes we made
Made by an intern working at the boulangerie - it was his test. And its incredible, isn't it??
Sitting on the boat we took on a tour in a swamp thing
Corinne and I on the swamp
Me and Corinne
A cool house in a park thing we waled around in
Another house
Corinne and I in front of one of the old houses
Fraser pointing like the dude on the little sign
Corinne and Fraser got ahold of my camera
A chateau we got to go SHOPPING in . . . yep, its got an entire city inside it
Inside the chateau with Ali and Katie
Eating in another creperie
Corinne loves crepes . . . mee tooo
Cool picture in a random back alley we found
Corinne thinks pigs are cool
Corinne and I chilling in the chateau
Corinne and I on a metal rock. It was cool, like seriously
Cathedral in the chateau . . . those two little dots in the middle are me and Fraser...yeah, it was huge
Corinne and I at La Baule - the biggest beach in France
F.R.E.E.D.O.M.
La Baule
Emma, Grace, and Katie . . . craaazy kids and I love them
Deep, eh?
Smiling : )
Haha . . . Fraser sleeping again . . . mouth open again
Menu at the best pizzeria in all of France
Front cover
Me and Charles, my youngest French brother - CUTIE
PE and I at the pizzeria
Glass bottle of Coke . . . 33cl
My godly dessert at the pizzeria
Bridge - best echoes I've ever heard, man
PE, Charles, and Francois-Xavier under the cool bridge
BEAUTIFUL Erdre
Some trees on a path by the Erdre
Cathedral in the town where my family lives
We got to visit the primary school one day . . . yayy for baby french kids!
Me and Katie pretending to be homeless while we waited for the stupid boys to get out of the gun store
Parking lot . . . look at all the baby cars!!
Inside the courtyard deal at school. The building on the left is part of the primary school, on the right is the middle school, and high school is on the farther right (can't see it)
At an outdoor market in Nantes
McKee and I with some more French friends!
Me with some more French girls!!
Me and Marguerite!
Me and Chelsea!
At the Jardin des Versailles (garden) . . . its all Japanese and cool!
McKee and I at the Jardin des Versailles
Me. Obviously.
Inside the bus on the way to school
There are hardly any stoplights in France . . . there are roundabouts EVERYWHERE
Roundabout
On the bus
A bus stop we waited at like twice
Sign at our school
The last day we went to school, they were having an Arts day, so all day kids were singing, jamming on guitar, and making crafts and stuff. I LOVED listening to the band here . . . they were fabulous!!
Corinne, Ali, me , and Katie eating some sandwiches for lunch on a wall outside school
CCA room (CCA - Culture & Civilization of America). Yep, they have
CCA
Kid rocking out on the Arts day - doesn't he look exactly like the best friend on Ferris Bueller's Day Off??? Freaky . . .
Me and Corinne on Arts day
Tram
Stop we got off to go to school every morning
Tram again
Inside the tram . . . those people probably thought I was crazy
All us American girls at a party!
Bus stop where PE and I waited most mornings
I don't really know . . . I was eating a lollipop and it was a cool picture
View on the road to Mont St. Michel
McDonalds - surprisingly different than here
Some signs - I dunno why
Mont St. Michel!!
Me and the Mont St. Michel!!
Inside a little museum in the Mont St. Michel
View inside the Mont St. Michel
Looking up
Another view...
Pierre-Emmanuel and Annette
Mont St. Michel
The Cathedral inside the Mont St. Michel
Carolyn, me, Chloe, McKee, and Ali on a boat tour on the Erdre River
Corinne, me, and Ali on the boat tour
Corinne and I on the boat
Pierrick (french kid!!) and Corinne playing thumb-war
Corinne and I on the way to the Goodbye-Americans party
Gaelle and I at the goodbye party
My family's house!
Governmental building in Paris
Fraser, Corinne, and I in a park - first place we went in Paris!
Grace and Emma
Cool-lookin street in Paris
EIFFEL TOWER!
Eiffel Tower . . .
Eiffel Tower - black and white!
Me and Corinne at the Eiffel Tower!
Fraser and I at the Eiffel Tower!
Corinne, Ali, and Fraser - waiting in line to go up the Eiffel Tower
Going up . . .
View looking down
WOW
Look closely - thats the tippy-top of the Eiffel Tower!
A heart someone bleached into the grass! Aw!
Me and Corinne - Eiffel Tower!
Me and Corinne - black and white!
Soccer game we could see going on from on top the Eiffel Tower
Thats gotta be on of the coolest bathroom signs EVER
Eiffel Tower
Our group walking away from the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower - and my finger on the left
Me and a little bit of the Eiffel Tower - I took the picture I guess
All of us and the Eiffel Tower!
Arc de Triomphe
Yay! Champs-Elysees! (most famous street in France)
Fraser and Katie at dinner on the Champs-Elysees!
Arc de Triomphe at night - beautiful!
A hotel all lit up at night
Glass pyramid at the Louvre - at night!
The Louvre
The people look funny, but the buildings are awesome!
The Louvre - see the pyramid?
Grace and I holding up the pyramid (just go with it, y'all)
Practically every ceiling inside the Louvre was decorated very elaborately like this - thats intense when even your ceilings are art
Me and Fraser outside the Louvre
This used to be a parking lot, but people complained that kids were running around playing amongst the cars, so they built this... kids can run around and play on them and no cars can get to them!
A street performer outside the Centre Pompidou
Another street performer - painting blindfolded and upside down!
A protest against kicking out immigrants in France - the banner says "let our children grow up here" and they were chanting "We don't care, we are home. First generation, second generation, third generation". It was intense.
Probably the ONLY water fountain in all of France - no joke
Me and the Notre Dame!
Every distance measurement relating to Paris is taken from this exact point, which is in front of the Notre Dame.
Notre Dame
Again, the people are messed up but the buildings are pretty cool
Corinne and I drinking Coke at a cafe
Notre Dame at night!
Jim Morrison's (The Doors) grave
Michelle (our tour guide in Paris), Grace, Emma, Corinne, and Mlle Steinhauer (my French teacher) chilling in the cemetery.
Inside a garden - gorgeous garden - in Paris
Centre Pompidou
Waiting to go down in the Catacombs!
Entrance to the Catacombs
"Stop! It is here, the Empire of the Dead"
Plaque that could be seen right after entering the catacombs
Skulls in the shape of a heart - intense.
Says that these bones were put in the catacombs in 1848, then transferred to their current location in 1859.
Placed in the catacombs in 1850 and transferred to this location in 1859.
Skulls in a line. All throughout the catacombs the skulls and bones were put into patterns to make pictures and symbols and stuff - intense.
"The eyes of God are fixed on the just and His ears are open to their prayers"
MOULIN ROUGE!!
The cafe where Amelie worked in the movie Amelie. I would have taken a picture of the inside but we already looked touristy enough so I didn't
Sacre-Coeur (Sacred Heart)
View of Paris from in front of the Sacre-Coeur
Three black men getting arrested - just a few minutes earlier they had tried to forcefully sell stuff to Fraser and I.
Eiffel Tower as seen from in front of the Sacre-Coeur
Me and Fraser - blurry, but I love it
Paris at night as seen from a boat on the Seine River
Notre Dame from the Seine - at night!
Paris at night
Eiffel Tower all glittery and at night!
Glittery Eiffel Tower!
Sacre-Coeur
Going up . . . Going home!
