Mom and I in Paris!Hi All!
Hope all is well on this pre-Thanksgiving week! Getting ready to eat some turkey & stuffing? Last weekend I was lucky enough to get to go to Paris with my mom! It was so much fun! Of course we did some classic French things like eat quiche! Yum! We both arrived on Friday night and checked in to our lovely Holiday Inn. Then we went out and went and saw the Eiffel Tower! AMAZING! We took a little walk and stopped and had some great dinner! Yumm!
On Saturday we did a walk around Paris and went and saw Notre Dame where we ran into this picture.
Now you may be thinking to yourself "Heather that is a horrible picture, it isn't of anything." But you'd be wrong. If you look closely, that lady is actually wearing a beret. That's is awesome. We then headed to the Louvre. But we got their right before they were closing, so we headed straight for Mona, Venus di Milo, and Winged Victory. But thats really all thats in the Louvre right? Then of course we did a little shopping :)
Now you may be thinking to yourself "Heather that is a horrible picture, it isn't of anything." But you'd be wrong. If you look closely, that lady is actually wearing a beret. That's is awesome. We then headed to the Louvre. But we got their right before they were closing, so we headed straight for Mona, Venus di Milo, and Winged Victory. But thats really all thats in the Louvre right? Then of course we did a little shopping :)The next day we went to L'Orangerie Museum and got to see really cool Monet paintings. They had 2 rooms where the walls were covered in long water lily paintings! Here is me pondering art:
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.We also checked out The Orsay Museum, which used to be a train station. You can ask my mom, I totally called it. We walked in, I said "This looks like a train station." and later with the rick steves tour he said "The Orsay used to be a Train Station." I could be the next Rick Steves.
That night we also got to up the Arc de Triomphe. Which was really cool! Inside they have really nice memorial exhibit and exhibits about arc's all over the world, including one in Brooklyn NY (Corinne, it's like we were in the same town). That might sound lame but it's not.
On Monday we didn't have much time so we just had a quick breakfast and our last cup of delicious Parisian coffee! This week I am going to Spain for 9 days so it will be a little while until the next update! Until then I will leave you with two things:
1. I have a Friend's and Family promotion still going on for the Holiday Inn. It works with any hotel under the IHC Family. Here is the link. You have to book by December 31, 2009. You can pass it on to your Friend's and Family too (but make sure you tell them my name because you need it for the voucher.)
2. I'm going to leave you with this short video of the Eiffel Tower twinkling at night!
Miss you!
Love,
Heather
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ReplyDeleteYou pondering art is wonderful, but you shouldn't smile. Real art ponderers look angry all the time.
ReplyDeletehorray family bonding!!!
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