le petite palais fountain and sculpture gardens (with my friend sarah pretending to be a sculpture)



leaving le petite palais to go to the louvre




salvador dali museum

my home base

for five weeks i shared a tiny little apartment with three other fabulous girls. we had one bedroom, a living room, bathroom, and the kitchen was a part of the hallway. despite our cramped accomodations, we had an absolutely fabulous time living together in paris.


this is the view from my balcony.









the tiny closet that i shared with one other girl for 5 weeks, with only five hangers for the two of us.




this is the boulangerie across the street that i went to all the time. they had the best baguettes ever.

keep checking back!

hello all!
i have not updated this in a looooooong time (i can't get wireless access at my hostel, so i'm at an internet cafe and can't upload pics). regardless, i have just spent a fantastic week in london meeting up with old friends and making new ones. today is my last day in london. once again, my jet-setting dad is in the same country as me, so i get to see him today! how exciting!

my flight back home is early in the morning, so i'll be back in the great state of colorado in the blink of an eye. the past month and a half that i've been gone has positively flown by, but it has been a fabulous experience and has once again sparked my travel-bug.

keep on checking back in, as i'll update this site within the next few days and upload pictures so you can see my adventures too!

carnival!

Parisian carnivals are a blast!!

in the tuileries gardens of the louvre, there is a huge carnival set up with all kinds of rides and games and food.



it was fabulous!! we rode the ferris wheel at night and when we got to the top, all of Paris was lit up and sparkling beautifully. what a treat!




this was actually one of the most fun things i have been to in Paris!

dad, this pic is for you. we went to an art nouveau house and the facade was absolutely gorgeous.

this picture is taken inside of the catacombs. we took a tour of the catacombs which stretch underground the majority of the left bank of paris. they are massive, beautiful, and so peaceful, not creepy like i was expecting.

of course, we had to go to notre dame cathedral. it was kind of anti-climactic as there were thousands of people there. we were herded through the church en masse.

i love going to the old churches here just so sit and think and look at the fabulous architecture. notre dame was beautiful, but it had a much different feel to it, as it seemed more commercialized and busy than the other churches i've gone to. still, it was a fabulous place to go (2 blocks away from st. chapelle also. gorgeous).