Sunday, July 31, 2011

day 30.

LAST DAY IN PARIS. CEMETARY. EIFFEL TOWER.

I can't believe it's already our last day in Paris! But as much as I loved the visit, I am so ready to go to Barcelona!! We visited one of the most famous cemeteries in Europe I think it was... and it was one creepy place! But it had some huge tombstones and a lot of people had their own little house type things. I even saw a creepy black cat and chased it! But it would run away every time I tried to snap a good pic of it. Oh! and I also found a dead black crow on a chair in one of the tomb rooms... you will see it below.


here is the sick dead crow!!











we made a palm tree in the dirt... shows how excited we were for Barcelona! 

eating eclairs while waiting in line to get to the top of the Eiffel tower :)

the Eiffel tower

Okay, so funny story... before we got to the Eiffel tower, we decided to pack a little picnic so we could eat it in the grass and hang out for a bit after going to the top. Good idea right? Well we ended up leaving a little later than expected and Dani & Andrea packed the bag with all the random left over food from our picnic from Vaux, which were pickles, mustard and some other random cracker things. They thought we were gonna make it to the store to get bread and whatnot but it was closed by the time we got there, so we just went to the Eiffel tower. Once we bought our tickets we had to go through security, and I was holding our picnic bag, they began to go through it (mind you no glass is allowed and all the food was in glass jars) somehow Danielle packed two jars of mustard, a big jar of pickles and little packs of Nutella. Probably the most random stuff to have in a bag to go to the top of the Eiffel tower, I was a little embarrassed because the workers began to shake their heads and laugh a little as we were holding up the line, while he was pulling out random little items that had been int he bag a little. They ended up confiscating our food and we were on our way. haha








GOODBYE PARIS!!! It was nice to meet you :)

Saturday, July 30, 2011

day 29.


VERSAILLES.

It was another early morning! First... Darwin and Sausie (nicknames) told us we should probably pack some lunches before we head to Versailles because it was pretty pricey over there. So we ran downstairs, quickly ate breakfast and I ran off to the closest bakery for some sandwiches for lunch. The one across the street wasn't even open yet so I ran to the next one a little further away. After rushing to get to our meeting spot on time, we headed to the train. When I woke up that morning, I felt like something was going to go wrong, I just knew it! And to my luck the girls left me in charge of carrying our lunch... but sadly I left those delicious looking sandwiches on the train!! Whoops! I felt horrible and we thought we were going to starve for the rest of the day, but luckily our nice friends shared some of their lunches with us :)


Here I am, standing at the golden gates of Versailles!

this is the backside of the main palace of Versailles


while waiting for our tickets to get in, everyone was so excited and a little hyper so this is what we did...


nice legs Changmok ;)

the gardens we absolutely breathtaking!


as you can tell, I'm a little obsessed with doors and doorknobs

a cool tree there, it reminds me of cotton candy




there were so many cute cottages there!

broken staircase







we were jumping and sliding all over the place on these floors

so Darwin and I decided to creep around the floor as well

this was the #1 tourist of the day

one of my absolute FAVORITE rooms I've seen! mainly because of the cheetah print carpet and peachy sofa

all about the detail :)




the famous hall of mirrors :)


it was amazingly gorgeous in there! but I wish there weren't so many people, it was crazy in there!!


this gorgeous couple were taking wedding photos with a huge camera crew

I was so excited to be there!!

oh hey there! ps check out that AMAZING detail work!!




some of the flooring outside. so cool!


On the way home, we were sketching random things and people.. then I creeped a sketch of this man and gave it to him... too bad the flash washed out the pic, but it was a nice cap to our Versailles trip. Afterwards we were starving!! So we decided to try out this burger place called Kong (Darwin suggested it to us) he said it was "kind of by the Pompidou and by some water" so we decided to venture out and find it. Good thing we had Darwin's horrible details of it's where-abouts, we searched high and low for that dang place and nobody knew where it was! As we walked further and further, everyone started getting crankier and crankier. We ended up walking miles away from the metro and found ourselves in some random ghetto china town type area. So we finally just gave up, went to a little market and bought some chocolate to calm ourselves down. It was like an instant happy pill! The moment a little chocolate touched our tounges we were pretty much good to go for another 5 mile walk! Once we finally made it home, we stopped at this cute little pizza place and ate some very interesting pizza with egg on it and random other stuff. It was a good experience though :)