Seventh Week

This Friday, we left home as soon as all the kids got home from school to spend the weekend in Paris!
Caroline and Olivier stayed home, but Pauline and my second host sister, Mathilde came along with us.
This is not a great picture of my host mom, Laurence, but we couldn't get a picture where we all looked good. Haha, I love this picture anyways, Laurence is so funny.






Mathilde and Pauline were SO excited to see this limo, we HAD to get a picture in front of it.














The first night we got there, we had a delicious dinner in a nice little resteraunt in town. Mathilde and I got the same dessert; a chocolate cup of ice cream. The cup was edible and super delicious.













This is me in front of the Eiffle Tower! The picture really doesn't portray the excitment, but this was really an incredible night.









Mathile, me, and Pauline




















This was my the view of the street from the balcony right outside our hotel room.











The Eiffle Tower in the morning.












As I was climbing the stairs to the second floor of the Eiffle Tower (I'm not sure if one is alowed to climb all the way to the top; but my family thought I was crazy for wanting to climb to the second floor anyways. They took the elevator), I noticed a group of men working on the structure, held up by harnesses.







I've already forgotten who was pictured on the stairs, but I'm pretty sure it was Mr. Eiffle, himself.




















A great view from the first floor, but I still had another floor to go....











This was taken after we rode in the elevator "all the way to the tippy top!" of tower. This is only a fraction of the 360° view we had.





















My sisters and me on the top.














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After the Eiffle Tower, we took a short walk over to the Notre Dame. After just being on the Eiffle Tower, I couldn't imagine ever getting more excited. But I was wrong; believe it or not, the beauty of Notre Dame in person was actually more of a shock to me than the Eiffle Tower.









This is just one inside view. It was really incredible; the height of the ceilings, the details in the walls, even the doors were complex iron designs.
















Le musée du Louvre


















I literally could not get a picture of the whole thing.













Incredible



















The entrance to the Louvre.
Inside, I took a few picutres of the artwork such as the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and other famous works that everyone has seen pictures of but that I wanted for evidence for myself. However, after taking so many pictures of things that impressed me on the spot, I realized that pictures don't even come close to what it's like to see them in person.
The weekend was wonderful and I can say with confidence that I will always remember my first trip to Paris.

Looking forward to my next week in Belgium!