More Paris

Day two in Paris: more sightseeing! it was SO cold, but we still covered a lot of ground. Stop one: Musee d'Orsay, for some reason I dont have any pictures from here except this cool clock:

streets of paris, they still had a lot of christmas decorations up which made everything even more beautiful.

anyone up for a dip in the pool? oh wait its like 15 degrees outside.

 Destination # 2: Notre Dame. It looked much different in the daylight. :)

the inside of Notre Dame

This was a box where people could write messages of  peace for the world. It was really cool because you could look inside the box and see little messages written in all different languages and alphabets. Peace, a univeral value.

Some tiles framing this random door that I thought were really cool and colorful!


After roaming the streets of the Latin quarter and Ile Saint Michel, we headed on to stop number 3, The Louvre.

The Louvre!

Winged Victory

a person can only enjoy seeing so many 17th century paintings and marble statues of naked people in one day. but we did our best. 

howdy Mona. 

whoever designed the Louve really liked the way red walls look with golden frames! haha. room after room after room. dont get me wrong, it was beautiful. :)

The Louvre all lit up!

That night we were invited to diner with some of Kate's family friends. We had raclette (cheese fondue, apparently a favorite french dinner party menu, so delicous!) and had a chance to really practice our french.

Then the next day, we went to visit Sacre Coeur, and explored the shops in the artsy district of Montmartre.

there was a parade going on while we were walking up to Sacre Coeur.  Lots of bagpipes and costumes! :)

artists in Montmatre

what better way to see a city than to aimlessly roam the streets? :)

the Dam Button store.

view of Paris from Sacre Coeur

If you ask french people to take a picture of you at a historic landmark, they often mistakenly think that you want the picture to be of YOU rather than the famous view or building in the background. hahaha. This kept happening! 

Kate and Dorothy infront of Sacre Coeur!