kristin, on the bus to sevilla.
me and stephanie on the plane to paris!
stairs outside our hostel.
our hostel, which is in montmarte, the neighborhood that has the moulin rouge!
walking to the main part of town, which took about 45 min. thanks to the transit strike, we walked everywhere!
the seine river, with the conciergerie on the left. that's where marie antoinette was held and executed during the revolution.
me and kristin on the bridge over the seine.
kristin and stephanie.
me and stephanie.
notre dame! it really is as big as it looks.
poor st. dennis. he got his head chopped off. i can't remember why...
inside notre dame.
beautiful stained glass inside notre dame.
jenna thinks this looks like suzzallo, one of the libraries at uw.
point zero, the point from which all distances are measured in france.
just in case you needed help finding notre dame.
stephanie and i and our delicious bowl of french onion soup. it was pretty much the best soup i have ever had!
stephanie chews her food a lot.
she's pretty excited to see sainte chapelle. even though she called it sacre coure all weekend :)
in line (one of the only lines we had to wait it) for sainte chapelle.
the beautiful stained glass of sainte chapelle.
walking along the seine.
oh yeah, that's the louvre. it's no big deal :)
okay, i kid. we were really excited!
the venus de milo, from 100 BC. for being the example of female perfections, she seems pretty manly to me...
a cool statue that stephanie and i liked.
teehee.
winged victory. one of my favorites.
stephanie and mona. they're pretty much bffs.
the mona lisa. wow.
mona's fans.
inside the louvre.
view of the eiffel tower from the tuileries gardens.
sunset on the seine.
the eiffel tower! it was all glittery with blinking lights and was pretty much amazing. the lights go off for 10 minutes every hour.
being goofy :)
one of my favorite pictures from the weekend.
dad, i thought you'd appreciate this shot.
view from the 2nd level of the eiffel tower.
it was cold. but we were still excited!
we had to wait for an hour, pay 11 euros and then i was a total nervous nellie once we got up there. but it was totally worth it.
knocking down chanel's door.
they weren't too impressed with chanel.
we didn't think much of dior either.
a cool square that we happened upon while walking. it was very christmas-y.
i don't think this picture communicates just how cold it was, so i will tell you: i was wearing socks, shoes (duh), sweatpants, jeans, 2 tanktops, a sweater, a fleece coat, a raincoat, gloves and a scarf. and i was still cold.
the four parts of the world statue, at the orsay museum.
van gogh's self-portrait, which i didn't even know was in paris!
the orsay museum. it used to be a train station.
monet's water lilies. it's huge!
inside the dome church, where napoleon's tomb is.
outside the dome church.
the thinker, by rodin.
he inspired us to think :)
the kiss, also by rodin.
the lawn of the eiffel tower. wow.
yay!
the arc de triomphe.
tomb of the unknown soldier below the arc.
woo! the crazy huge round-about on the champs elysee.
what rebels :)
the champs elysee!
my eyes are all watery. i'm not crying.
display at a department store we found while walking home.
the moulin rouge!
can you do the can-can? and yes, we felt as dumb as we look :)
walking to sacre coure.
sacre coure.
kristin...that kid is crazy!
deportation memorial to the 200,000 french citizens killed in WWII.
