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Best Supper Ever: Battlecat Speaks!
Last year, I got a curious friend request from something called “Best Supper Ever” on MySpace. I initially thought it might be spam, but when I clicked on the link to investigate further, I was bombarded with, well, awesomeness. I also knew some of the group’s founding members, so that helped met start following their [...]
Even More Paris Lights: Views from the Eiffel Tower
Sorry that these have started to get out of order, but once I was done writing I felt there were still so many photos I wanted to share!
Still want to see more? Evan has all the photos up on his site here.
More Paris Lights: Champs Elysees at Night
Since I only posted a small photo of this earlier and it was really pretty, here’s another photo of the Champs Elysees at night, line with blue-lit trees, facing the Louvre (and the ferris wheel, which you can see at the end of the street).
Cool Facade: Wavy Building
Walking down Avenue George V in Paris, we noticed an odd site up ahead — a wavy, Dali-esque building. Even stranger: It wasn’t in our guidebook.
The building looked like it was melting and we could see it from many blocks away, so it seemed like it was something important.
As we got closer and closer, though, [...]
Paris Museums: L’Orangerie
Sunday, we met up with Evan’s grandparents, who were also visiting Paris for the weekend, and went to the Orangerie to see its small collection of art. The most impressive thing there was two large oval rooms with Monet’s Water Lilies on the walls. The rooms were filled with diffuse natural light that came in [...]
Climbing the Eiffel Tower
After our lovely long walk to our hotel, we dropped off our bags and headed to the Eiffel tower, which was only a few blocks away. We had to wait in line for a while, and decided to take the stairs up to the second floor then the elevator up to the top, since the [...]
A Walk Through the Tuileries and the Champs Elysees
After checking out the Louvre, we walked through the Tuileries, down the wide main boulevard through the park, taking some time to look at all the statues and fountains. I can’t wait to go back during the spring and see it all in bloom. At the end of the garden, there is a ferris wheel, [...]
The Louvre: The Biggest Museum I have Ever Seen
From the tip end of Ile de la Cite, while crossing Pont Neuf, I saw a seemingly endless structure. It looked like a palace, stretching on as far as I could see down the Seine. When we finally came up to the back of the building, I was speechless for a moment. This thing is [...]
First Sight Out of the Subway: Notre Dame
Since we would have been transferring at the Notre Dame metro stop anyway, we decided to get out and check it out — how couldn’t we, really?
The outside looked just as I’d expected it to, though its clean, light stone makes it look like a much newer building than it is. The stone carvings are [...]
Weekend Trip to Paris, or France on France
Saturday morning, Evan and I took the Eurostar train to Paris. The trip got off to a bit of a rocky start because we didn’t know that we needed to get to the train station 45 minutes ahead of the departure time and due to problems retrieving our tickets and a lot of running back [...]