Paris, France

Me and Nasi in Front of the Eiffel Tower.

Well, my next trip in my month of travel was the best of all, or should I say will have been the best of all as I have a few more to go as I write this. I had never been to Paris, mainly because I the French pissed me off with the whole Saddam thing. But I knew I would have to go eventually. So I'm definitely very glad I waited to go with Nastasja, because it really is a romantic place. So this was out Christmas present. We were there for 4 days and managed to actually hit up the major tourist things. We were very exhausted.


We spent the first day walking along the river and just looking around the city. We saw the Eiffel tower and Napoleon's Tomb. The tower was bigger than I thought it would be and impressive for a structure built in the 1800's. Napoleon's tomb was quite hilarious. Strange how he was considered an enemy to Europe and even France at a time, but they have his grave like this. I mean geez, the guy was exiled.

NAPOLEON!!!!!!

Arc de Triomphe

That night we walked along the Champs de Elysee ( all spellings are definitely wrong cause I'm too lazy to look up the correct way). Its full of high class shops, so we went into the Lois Vuitton shop. These people are crazy stupid, I never want to be like that.

Each day after we would go to a different area of Paris. So we saw the Jewish quarter and had a really nice dinner at the "best" Italian place in Paris. Most of the time we ate $7 crepes and baguettes. Paris is not cheap. Also saw the Latin quarter, where I was able to find a Starbucks! Nastasja was getting a bit angry that I wouldn't shut the hell up about finding Starbucks. So even though she didn't feel the same joy I did, I know she was at least happy that I shut up.

The Paris Opera where Nasi will one day be singing, of course!

Our next big trip was to Versailles. Its a nice place, but not overly impressive compared to other things I've seen in Europe. We did the goofy tour where you listen to the person on the headset. I expected more out of the gardens, but I guess it doesn't help that it is winter and there aren't any flowers. Oh well. We didn't walk around much cause Nasi's back was hurting.

The gardens at Versailles.

Nastasja and I in Front of Versailles.

Another of the main things we did was go to the Louve. It sure is all its cracked up to be. No way to do it all in a week, let alone a day. So we hit the main things, the Mona Lisa, and the old Italian and French paintings. We spent about 2 hours there. Plenty enough for us.

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