"I celebrated my 21st Birthday in Paris" - France Jan 25-27th, 2014
Above: Arriving at Heathrow for Air France flight to Paris! Nice and early Saturday morning!
Below: They had the cutest little drinks on the plane! Above and Below: On the RER from the airport to city centre!
Above: Me on the metro!
Below: Danny and I at the Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! It was even better then when you see it in pictures!
Above: Eiffel Tower!
Below: View from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower! Above: Me at the bottom in front of the Eiffel Tower!
Below: Standing underneath the Eiffel Tower! Above: Waiting to get our tickets to go up the Tower!
Below: Amazing views from the Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Amazing views that are just spectacular!
Above: View from the Tower! It was so pretty!
Below: Inside the Eiffel Tower! Above: Me at the top of the Eiffel Tower!
Below: Taking the stairs down the Eiffel Tower! Above: Walking down the stairs looking through the metal!
Below: Sights of Paris from the top of the Tower! Above: Up the Eiffel Tower! The views were so amazing!
Below: Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! I cannot believe I have actually been there and seen it!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! We took the lift up to the second floor (since top was closed) and then walked down the stairs! It was crazy!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above: Danny and I on the Seine River Boat cruise!
Below: Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! Looking so pretty!
Above: Eiffel Tower!
Below: Sights on the cruise! Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River! These are partial views of the Louvre! It is huge!
Above: Inside the cruise boat!
Below: A real French crepe! OMG IT WAS SO GOOD! Above: Me eating my crepe! I had never had anything that compared to this!
Below: Eiffel Tower! Above: The Eiffel Tower all sparkly!!
Below: Our boat! LOL. Above: The hotel room - literally just a room. SO much different to Canada. Literally, this was all of it.
Below: The bathroom … yup, in the corner there, that is the shower - a hole in the ground to catch the water. Above: The shower…so weird!
Below: French TV … we had no clue what was going on! LOL. Above: trying to figure out the TV and not being able to understand what was on, what we were watching or anything was a task in itself.
Below: The Louvre! Above and Below: The Louvre! I cannot even express to you how massive it was!
Above and Below: The Louvre! It was better then picture perfect! To be able to see things that you have admired in pictures or have only seen online, etc. was something that nothing can compare to! These major landmarks are right there!
Above and Below: The Louvre!
Above and Below: Views from outside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! The artwork was amazing! It was everywhere and there was so much to see!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! So many exhibits!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above: Inside the Louvre!
Below: Views from the windows of the Louvre! Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! The statues and sculptures were unreal!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above: Inside the Louvre!
Below: The Venus de Milo! Above and Below: The Venus de Milo! So amazing to see things that are so famous! It is like almost an out of body experience to see these things that you have heard about or only seen in pictures! I have seen them now with my own two eyes!
Above: This was probably my favourite sculpture! I just found it hilarious that the kid is strangling a duck and someone made a famous thing out of it!
Below: Inside the Louvre! Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! Such a famous place!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! It was so busy inside!
Above: Me outside the Louvre!
Below: Arch de Triumph! Above and Below: Arch de Triumph!
Above and Below: Ponts de Arts - the love lock bridge!
Above: The love lock bridge! SO amazing to see it!
Below: Me pointing to the locks we put on! Above: Danny and the locks we put on!
Below: Danny and I on the Ponts de Arts bridge! Above: Ponts de Arts.
Below: View from on the bridge! Paris was so pretty everywhere you went! Above and Below: Sights in Paris!
Above: The lovely, amazing bakery right outside our hotel!
Below: The load of baking we bought, even ordered partially in French! LOL. Above: The pastry I had - La tarte de laframboise! OMG, it was too much goodness for one dessert!
Below: The pastry Danny had! Above: We had real French croissants! Honestly, nothing can ever compare with how good they were!
Below: The souvenirs I bought! It was magnificent to find things and I just absorbed the fact that I needed to commemorate that I was in Paris! Even found a buret - so French! Above and Below: Souvenirs from France!
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Above: I am ready to board this plane!
Below: Lovely clouds! Above: The metro had double decker trains!
Below: The metro in Paris! Above: Metro station in Paris!
Below: Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! I could not believe it was real! Honestly, it was too incredible to see! Reality hasn't quite sunk in yet at this point. It was like dreams coming true literally right before your eyes!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! It is incredible to see. The Eiffel Tower was glorious and so beautiful!
Above and Below: Views from the Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: At the top of the Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Views from above!
Above and Below: Views from the Eiffel Tower! Isn't it amazing?
Above: Standing on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower looking up!
Below: Views from the Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Sights from up top the Tower!
Above: Sights from the Eiffel Tower!
Below: Standing at the base and looking up on the Eiffel Tower! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! Getting ready to go up!
Above and Below: Views from the Eiffel Tower! I was super scared to look down because we were so high! It was actually incredible though, and extremely beautiful!
Above: Views from above!
Below: Boarded the river cruise and had such a great view when the Eiffel Tower lit up! Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! It sparkled every hour!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower! All lit up at night was super amazing! The sky around it was glowing!
Above and Below: Eiffel Tower!
Above: Eiffel Tower!
Below: On board the cruise and going along the Seine River! Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above and Below: Along the Seine River! This was an old train station! Now it is the museum of Modern Art.
Above and Below: Along the Seine River!
Above: Along the Seine River!
Below: Along the Seine River! This is a replica of the Statue of Liberty donated to France by the USA! Above: The boat we were on!
Below: Snacks, Paris style. What an experience trying to find things in a French grocery store! LOL. They had Lays chips! What a happy moment! They were super good too! Above: Some really strange flavours in France…
Below: Pizza, French Dominos style! Above: Cheesy bread! Yum!
Below: Pizzas from Dominaos! I didn't realize the "four cheese" was so much different then any other four cheese. There was cheese on there I didn't even know existed! LOL. Above and Below: The Louvre!
Above and Below: The Louvre!
Above and Below: The Louvre! Living the dream!
Above: Panoramic shot of the Louvre - still didn't capture its side here!
Below: Inside the Louvre! Above and Below: There it is - MONA LISA!
Above and Below: The Mona Lisa! Cannot believe I have seen it with my own two eyes!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above: The ceilings all over the building were magnificent!
Below: Inside the Louvre! Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! Some of the paintings were so detailed - I could not even imagine!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! The building itself was so gorgeous to see - like picture perfect!
Above: View of the outside of the Louvre!
Below: Inside the Louvre! Above and Below: Inside the Louvre! Some of the artworks were so amazing to see!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Inside the Louvre!
Above and Below: Arch de Triumph!
Above: Me eating a baguette! It was so yummy! Like honestly!
Below: Ponts de Arts - love lock bridge! Above and Below: Ponts de Arts - love locks! Once you put a lock on, you have to throw the key into the river!
Above and Below: The locks we put on! Danny and I put one on for us and then I put one on for my Mom and Ed!
Above and Below: Ponts de Arts! It was iconic Paris with the music, the sights, and just everything was too incredible!
Above: Ed - these toilets exist! LOL. I got a picture just for you!
Below: Inside a pet store on the streets of Paris. There was like literally 5-6 stores all in a row selling small dogs, cats, birds, mice, snakes, chickens, pigeons, etc. It was unreal to see them selling these live animals right in the streets! Above and Below: Inside one of the pet stores!
Above and Below: Inside the pet stores!
Above and Below: Notre Dame Cathedral! I was trying to find the hunchback but I had no luck! LOL. It was so amazing because we even got to hear the bells ring!
Above: Notre Dame!
Below: Me and my buret! |