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| J'aime la Tour Eiffel! |
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| I think everything is more romantic in Paris. Chick stuffing ordinary flower in face: delicate fille smelling lovely-scented rose. |
Amelia is here! We met up in Paris and went to the Eiffel Tower and had a picnic of bread, cheese and wine near l'Arc de Triomphe and then met up with our other friend Ria who graduated Grinnell last spring and is traveling through Europe this month. We had complications getting into our hostel (Mel had put her credit card on hold because of suspicious activity, but the hostel had waited to charge our reservation to it so our reservation was nullified when the card didn't scan) which landed us in a hotel down the street where we were charged the same price for a much nicer and more private room, which was just fine by us. We went back out with Ria for La Nuit Blanche (a cultural night festival in Paris) and got dinner food, more wine and some Petit Ecolier cookies to eat as we sat watching the Eiffel Tower light up and glitter ever hour and later listened to live music from a different metro stop that had a breathtaking view of the tower.
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| It sparkles on every hour:59 for five minutes! Spectacular! |
The next morning Mel and I were off to the Musée d'Orsay (free on first Sunday of every month!) to see Imprssionism/Post-Impressionism art by Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Cezanne and others. So cool.
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| I'm standing in front of the cool Musée d'Orsay sign (pics not allowed inside) |
Afterwards when crossing a bridge to see the Obélisque (below),
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| Obélisque! |
we saw all these padlocks with people's names written on them in Sharpie locked to the railing on the bridge. I had never seen that before but I loved the idea! We decided when we come back we'll have to do that. We're gonna start saving when we get home in December. This was one of my favorites:
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| Bisous de Paris! |
After having lunch with Ria in a café, saying goodbye, riding a two-hour train, arriving in Nantes and meeting my host family, we called it a journée and passed out in our beds. The next day (Monday) we fixed sweet potato turnovers for my family (upon hearing what we were making, my host mom told me she had never eaten sweet potatoes! I can't believe her misfortune.) and my brother and sisters helped us. Timothé was way too smart for the onions he was cutting for me, and he protected his watering eyes from further peril by wearing his swim goggles. What a kid.
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| Who says I can't cook? Every recipe calls for a little vin in my book. |
Amelia and I had a lot of fun fixing our turnovers, drinking wine and playing with Timothé, Thaïs and Jeanne, and it was a dîner to souvenir for sûr.
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