Second full day in Paris and I already know leaving is going to be so difficult. The weather here is so unpredictable.. right when I thought I couldn't stand the muggy heat a second longer as Rachael and I wandered around to look for a supermarket to buy lunch at we get caught in a downpour of warm rain. Normally I do not do well in any kind of rainy weather but this came at the perfect time and felt amazing. We dashed into the market where we bought a baguette (freshly made and still warm!), a cheese spread, and some ripe nectarines and then ate our lunch at a boulangerie (learning about a word a day here... my foreign language learning curve leaves something to be desired) where we finished the meal with a chocolate croissant. My favorite part about the bakery was the rainbow of meringues on display in the window.
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Too pretty to eat |
After lunch we took the metro to Versailles... We're getting pretty good at figuring it out, which is a relief. It was ridiculously hot and crowded but I still loved every minute of it. Everything is so beautiful and intricately detailed from the corners of the ceilings to the furniture to the floorboards.
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Making new friends! The woman on the left loved us and insisted on shading us with her umbrella during the wait to get in the Palace. |
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Hall of Mirrors... the ceilings were amazing |
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Hall of Mirrors |
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King Louis XIV in his Study Council |
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Incredible! |
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Just hanging out in our hotel room! Just kidding, Marie Antoinette's bedchamber. |
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Gardens of Versailles |
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Never been so happy to have a Diet Coke in my life.. Bartered it down from 2 Euro to 1 in the sweltering heat |
Almost forgot to write about last night! We met up with some people I knew from UCSB and drank wine on the bank of the Seine. There was a pretty good crowd of young people there and some musicians playing guitars and singing. At first most of the songs were in French but then a guy broke into some Beyonce and Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing"... he butchered the lyrics and I'm pretty sure he had no idea what the words meant, but it was hilarious. We ended our night by wandering around the Latin Quarter, meeting some students traveling from Holland and eating a delicious crepe beurre-sucre. It spontaneously poured rain for about ten minutes but that honestly just made the experience even more unforgettable. Can't wait to see what tonight has in store.
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Too happy about the crepe to care that it was raining |
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