Gorgeous river and autumn trees
Notre Dame!
River :)
Sarah and I in front of Notre Dame
Closer up view of Notre Dame
Jan Margaret and I in the plaza in front of Notre Dame
Interior: Notre Dame
This masked man/street performer entertained the Notre Dame crowd by sneaking up behind people and scaring them to death. So funny!
Lindsay and I at the top of Notre Dame
View of the city from the top of Notre Dame. See the Eiffel Tower?
Paris from above
Detail on Notre Dame's facade
Musee Rodin
A cast of Rodin's "The Thinker"
My favorite sculpture in the interior section of the Musee Rodin
Musee d'Orsay
Famous Monet inside of the d'Orsay
The Louvre
Natalie, Sarah, Jan & I in front of the Louvre
Cheesy tourist Louvre picture!
Sarah, Jan, and I inside of the Louvre's glass pyramid
The Mona Lisa (aka my mom! haha)
Royal jewels at the Louvre
Venus du Milo
Jan reenacting the noble statue
Code of Hammurabi...so ancient!
Madonna on the Rocks
Vanessa surrounded by a gang of Parisian boys whipping out the liquor bottles on the subway...
Saint-Chappelle stained glass
A really old, famous bookstore in Paris. Vanessa's friend from Vanderbilt that had visited Paris this summer hid a sweet note in a book there for her...too cute!
Jan, Natalie, Lindsay, and Sarah at lunch in a Paris cafe
Rachel, Kate, Vanessa, and I
The Eiffel Tower!
Jan and I in front of the Eiffel
Flashback! My mom in front of the Eiffel Tower back in the day....
and my modern-day version of her Eiffel Tower pic!
Another Eiffel Tower pic
My attempt at being artsy...
Jan at the top of Montmartre...she's so French in her beret!
Sacre-Couer, a beautiful cathedral at the top of Montmartre
Le Chat Noir--heard of it?
Moulin Rouge--I'm SURE you've heard of that one! What you can't tell from this picture is that the club is in the raunchiest area ever. We felt sketchy just walking through!
Jan, Natalie, Sarah, Rachel, Kate, and I in front of the Arc de Triomphe
Close up view of the Arc de Triomphe
Our group inside of the Arc de Triomphe!
There just so happened to be some sort of a parade honoring city workers on the Champs Elysees while we were at the Arc de Triomphe...interesting. Side note: all municipal workers in Europe wear equally obnoxious jumpsuits.
Arc de Triomphe
Sarah, Jan, Natalie, and I in front of the beautifully lit Eiffel Tower
Our champagne party on the lawn in front of the Eiffel!
GORGEOUS.
Surprise! The Eiffel Tower sparkles for 10 minutes at the beginning of every hour!
We lucked out and happened to be heading up to the top of the tower when it sparkled again...amazing.
View of Paris by the light of a full moon (from the top of the Eiffel)!
Also from the top of the Eiffel
Catacombs...a quarry-turned-cemetary. By cemetary, though, I don't mean a place full of coffins. I mean complete skeletons organized in decorative patterns, like so. The dark side of Paris, I suppose.
Heart made of skulls...creepy...
Cross surrounded by all sorts of bones and skulls
