in all its slightly sunrisen glory. too bad it didn't win the games.
it looks kind of cute from this angle. :)
jancy and i can hardly believe we're HERE :P
our better sides
me and the tower
we decided to climb the south tower stairs to the first "stage" ( ou bien, l'étage)
waiting in line for the 9.30 opening time
climbing l'escalier du pilier sud. i was the very first person sur le premier étage that day! :)
mom captures a view of the city
jancy captures the height of the tower, while i gaze out over paris
my turn to capture a view
paris, beneath my feet
les invalides, which we visited later in the day
a soccer field right below the tower
after our two hours on the tower. i wrote lots of postcards :)
a graduation at l'Ecole Militaire and Les Invalides
we were walking by l'Ecole Militaire, and saw all these people in uniform. we figured it was des étudiants who had just graduated. and yes, some were slightly attractive ;)
after we saw those graduates, we bought some fruit and found the apartment where antoine de saint exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince, and then we were there:
les invalides
underneath the big dome is...
Napoleon's tomb
the altar above his tomb
the interior of the dome
statues surrounding the tomb
Les Invalides is a huge complex, housing many war museums. I decided I wanted to hear about WWII from the French perspective, so off we went. it ended up being a GREAT visit. :)
American code translated into French. haha.
Jancy, mesmerized by a video of dogfights
some guns
a neato map. okay, i am a
some model battleships
US poster
a complete US field soldier kit. that amazed me.
a motorbike in its parachute container thing. then off we toddled to...
Le Musee d'Orsay
this museum was fun, because i really really like the Impressionists. and it had its nice little surprises as well.
i <3 pointillism
one of my favorite paintings ever :)
a pretty statue
from another angle
ooh. i liked the complexity of this one. and his curly hair.
again
his hands and feet
y'know the opera house in the Phantom of the Opera? well, Orsay has a scale model of it!!
then they had a model of its surroundings in the floor, and here is its top in all its glory.
did you know that Orsay is actually a train station that was turned into a museum. here's one of the remnants of le gare
after our pretty full day, we were too tired for evening sightseeing, so jancy and i decided to go see this:
dubbed in french!!
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