The remains of old Roman bathhouses. We came here with my art history professor last week after our first lecture.
Entrance to the Cluny Museum, built in an old castle/ the bathhouses and dedicated to artifacts from the Middle Ages.
Headless statues discovered at Notre Dame.
The famous "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries (I had never heard of them).
The best tarte aux pommes (apple tart) in France - they won an award for it.
Of course, I took more pictures of the Eiffel Tower.
Fountains off.
Fountains on.
For 89 euro you can drive this luxury car around for 20 minutes.
Going up - we planned on taking the stairs to the second level (it's cheaper, 3.70 euro) and then taking the elevator to the top, but the top level was closed so were only able to reach the second after all.
Sun setting over the Seine.
All views from the first level, not to be confused with the ground level. The French numbering of levels of height begins at zero. What Americans call the "second floor" of a building is their first floor.
Montemartre ("Mountain of Martyrs") and Sacre Coeur.
Ice skating on the Eiffel Tower. And it was free, skate rentals and all. Life is great.
Devan!
C'est moi!
Second level, sun setting.
Views from the second level.
I asked a couple in French if they could take our picture since it was just two of us and we had no other friends to have a photoshoot with, and they of course turned out to speak English.
The Eiffel Tower at night.
At sunset and on every hour afterward, the Tower puts on a lights show for 5 minutes, making it look like it is sparkling with glitter.
Trip to the Louvre #1. When I told my host family I was going, my host mother suggested I just spend the week there. It is enormous, beautiful, and an absolute maze.
Stags in Paris! (Fairfield mascot)
Rooms of Napoleon III.
So plain. Cough.
The one on the right looks like it was made just for me, no?
Full suit of armor.
Eiffel Tower. Again. Get used to it.
Paris has a lot of public toilets. After every time someone uses it, it washes itself entirely, floors and all. Who says Europeans don't know hygiene?
Saw this advertisement in the metro. In love.
Moulin Rouge! Rick Steves was right, Pigalle (the red light district in Paris) definitely gives the sense of being "more racy than dangerous."
Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown. I was in love with this little kid's wig.
Year of the dragon.
