gabriel

happy halloween?

Turns out halloween is not that big in Paris. Kind of a disappointment, but the day was still fun for us americans.

I started off the day with french class, where we decorated our lunches as pumpkins. Since we didn't get to carve real pumpkins because they are no where to be found here.

After that we headed over to a park to meet up with some of the other girls to go into the menagerie, which is like a zoo. I guess menagerie means collection.. I had fun with that word today.

It wasn't free, and none of us [okay mainly me] like animals THAT much to care about going inside. So we just walked around the park then went to find some crepes for lunch.

Stop right here. Do not laugh at me when I tell you how much I ate today.

Mind you I was starving, I eat toast for breakfast everyday - give me a break.

I couldn't resist..

• I got a gauffre, [like a waffle] with sugar and caramel sauce on top {SO MESSY}
• A beignet [like a donut] with sugar
• And last but CERTAINLY not least, un crepe avec speculoos.
  

This was the first place that I have been to that has speculoos as an option for crepes. I was soo excited and I had already ordered my other two things so I waited until I finished eating then went back with amber who got some ice cream too. Were in Paris, why not.Afterwards, we walked all that off for about three miles to pere lachaise, the cemetery near bastille that has TONS of graves, and lots of famous people. SpookY for halloween right?

It was way fun. It was me, Maddie, Amber, Tiff, Whitney, Hailey, and Annie met us there. We just walked around and found all the graves we wanted to see.

• Oscar Wilde
• James Morrison
• Gertrud Stein
• Chopin
• Haussman
• Seurlat
• Edith Piaf
• Gericault

And probably more..
Lets just pretend I know exactly who all of these people are. No I do/have learned them from visiting the cemetery, this was my second time. So we mapped out the plan and headed out.

Obviously I was a cat for halloween. I told Amber to pretend with me, she has no idea what cats are. hahhah love her.Scary but still flirty, thats what we were going for. Gotta stay classy
Fall is our favorite thing on this earth. Okay maybe I'm just obsessed with all these colorful leaves I have never seen in my lifffeee so much.
Meet Gabriel.
We picked up a tour guide around Chopin. He walked up to us speaking french, then to english and asked us everything then told us about the cemetery and how there are so many famous people in it. He then proceeded to show us everyone and everything in that place. It took a very long time.
So much fun though.
And if we were getting scammed what the heck.
We didn't ever give him any money, and maybe he was just a super nice guy? I still have all of my important belongings. So everything is good.

I love this picture. Wasn't captured at the right moment when we were both actually posing, but still so perfect. Classic.This is Annie, always.
You could see the eiffel tower!
Here you go dad. James Morrison. There was a huge crowd around, and also not a good spot to take a picture, but here it is. My dad got really excited talking about this famous singer. He may have even sung and danced a little bit. It was great.
Without a doubt this is my absolute favorite picture from the whole day. Maddie with bloddy Baron. Okay not really, we just pretended.
{skulls}We went to the Lee's apartment afterwards to get money to recharge our navigo passes. Thats Paris speak for metro pass. The boys were put in charge. Look at little cyrus. He never smiles. At least not around us. And this is just a really great picture hhahaha.Twinzies!

And we ended the night at fhe with hot chocolate, a lesson in half french half english, do you love your neighbor, madeline's, popcorn, and candy that we supplied.
Happy halloween everyone! Hopefully you see a lot more excitement than we did here in Paris. I saw two little kids dressed up, the entire day. Sad.


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le long week-end

this weekend was successful. Even though plans fell through, and in reality I could have gone to Ireland, Milan, Belgium, or anywhere else in the world for FIVE whole entire days, I had fun in paris.

This'll be quick. that's what she said.
Seriously have to sleep though.

{it all started with crepes.}

banana and sugar.
Oh my gosh, try this first thing when you come to Paris.
I think its my current favorite.

{twinners.}

{montparnasse tower with squinty girl}

{Michael Jackson}

{pop*tatoes}

{Jazz club, with Sue Goodman from my home ward in Arizona}

{getting lost waaaay too much on this thing}

{trip to versailles}
excuse the flappy boot. I hate it too.

{learning to be asian}

{ROOTbeer}

{cheeseburger american diner-dinner}

{7am day trip: headsets included}

{loving autumn}

{obsessing over these trees}

yes,if you look close there IS a baguette in my mouth.

{castles}

{fancy photographs}

{running out of speculoos, twice..whoops}

{eiffel tower}

{more crepes. now addicted to sugar and cinnamon}

{skilled planning}

{notre dame gargoyles}

{top of notre dame de paris}

{children &bubbles}
{ :) }
{wanting a donut}

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Tour Eiffel

So I guess Paris is famous for some huge tower, it's "A" shaped and brown. You can't miss it, but sometimes you can.
Justkidding
J'adore le tour eiffel, c'est tres jolie.
Thats probably the most french I've spoken since I've been here. Definitely digressing from that aspect. Which is really disappointing, but it's life; whatever.
So me and my roommate finally climbed the eiffel tower probably like three-ish weeks ago? I'm not really sure, it was a while ago but I'm just now getting around to do this.. while I definitely have a million other things to be doing, like a midterm test that I've only barely started, but who cares, right? totally my attitude right now. We got our tickets. 3euro60centimes. Pas mal.

We took before and after pictures. We decided to take the stair route, because the elevator line was way sups long and that is lame, you HAVe to do the stairs, you're in freaking PARIS!

We got to the first level and I was so excited. I love the eiffel tower, my first impression of it while driving in my shuttle to our first hotel was that it looked way smaller than I had thought it to be. But once you get up close, that all changes. Its seriously massive. And changes your life.

We went to look over the middle edge to the people below, and I told my roommate that there defniteily was a chance that she would see me cry. I don't know what it is about paris but I get very emotional at amazing sites here. Even delicious crepes I want to tear up a little. [okay well that might be because I can't stop eating them and have no desire to work out and realize with every bite that I am indeed going to gain 60 pounds here.] Yes. I love crepes. So I definitely let a couple tears loose at that first glance down from the tower. It was seriously spectacular, I couldn't help it!

The people look so tiny even just from the first level, and you feel so amazing being all the way up there. Something just hits you.

Then they have these.

We walked around the whole first floor, then found our way to the second set of stairs going to the second floor. Once again, AMAZING. The view just got better with every step higher, and it got me every time, beautiful.

{this is my area code back home. in case you didn't know. I'm pretty proud of the 520.}

From here, we walked all the way around again, just gaffing at the incredible views - the exact same ones we saw just one level lower, but somehow were completly different on the second floor. I took way too many pictures, just could not get enough.

You have to take the elevator from the second floor up to the top. That was fun. The elevators are window-ed and you can see the whole time as you go up. Its scary and amazing at the same time. From the third floor theres a couple of steps you can climb that take you up to the very very top. And that is where we went, and it was raining. Of course Paris.

I was prepped with a hoodie. That apparently goes cone shaped when you put the hood on.. Thanks asian family who took our picture for NOT telling me I look like a fool.

The rain was actually really cool. Kind of fun to experience it on top of the eiffel tower none the less. [I really hope that phrase makes sense in this context, I'm just trying to sound sophisticated]

Then we did the down part. Easy peasy. As you can plainly see in our faces.

At the bottom we went to take some pics in front of what we just climbed. So cool.

There was some festival thing going on across from the eiffel, at trocadero. There were a bunch of tents set up so we had to check it out, but disappointingly it turned out to just be some running thing with athletic wear for sale or advertisement, je ne sais pas. But we did get free yogurt samples. Thats all I go to those type of things for, free food.

After all that jazz, we went home and planned on making some delicious dinner together.
I had pasta waiting for us in Neuilly, but we went to the monoprix for my roommate to get some vegetables for our meal.
When we got home we told our lady we were making dinner and literally the first thing she asks is "well what are you doing about dessert?" -in french obvs.
She loves herself some dessert. We didn't plan on that part, so she cut up some mango for us. We HAD to have something.
The pasta was deliciouuus. And we had some squash, bread, and cheese with it. A good home-cooked meal made by us.
I love mango. Shout out to anna mari gee who thinks theres a hype on mango, its not as good as everyone makes it out to be? You're insane. But I love you.
I ate that mango in five seconds.
Wasn't nearly a mexican mango with chilli, lime and salt on it, but close enough for france.
You did good Parisian mango growing trees.
Afterwards we got in some warm pajamas, climbed in my giant comfy bed and watched baby mama on my laptop.
She had never seen it, and its a classic. Love that.
A good roommate bonding day.

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