Whitney est venue me voir, so we hit up Lyon and Paris like a whirlwind-

Us crossing a bridge over the Rhone on our way to the Marche de Noel


Whit at the marche


Getting ready in our scarves to go out in the freezing cold

The tea stand that I loved! The people there knew me because I went so often...sad?


Whit dancing in my chambre. I wish I could remember which song!


A little blurry.. but each side of this one intersection on Champs-Elysees was decorated like this and in the midst of all the white trees there was also a green one with lights


oooh Champs-Elysees, oooh Champs-Elysees....I don't remember the rest of the words


So after the nice couple took this picture of us, the man then proceded to take the same picture of us with his wife.. strange... but lately my friends and I have been trying to figure out what's so special about the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.. because I feel like they have them everywhere. Why aren't the others special?


many many Edith Piaf CDs at the Virgin Megastore


Do we have sections titled thrash/black/speed/death at home??


We thought this was a pretty view


and then we turned around and thought this was an amazing view of the arc.


This is how foggy it was the first night. We couldn't even see the Tour Eiffel.


A carousel in the middle of the Jardin du Tuileries.


because we can can can...


no caption necessary


We found a Starbucks! Now I've been to one in Geneva, Athens, Paris... and Berlin (I don't even like coffee, but I do love my Starbucks)


Is it just me, or do I look like an alien?


statue...

Not nice weather, but nice enough to at least see it!


We could not get the eiffel tower between us! Don't know why...



Catacombs.. before we knew that you aren't supposed to take pictures with flash.. whoops

whoops again.. seriously though, we didn't know until someone else took a picture right after us


a heart? how sweet


Notre Dame. No hunchback this time, but instead a Christmas tree! (and no scaffolding)

Pretty Tree


I've got something in my teeth.. thanks for telling me Whit!


Inside Notre Dame


Venus de Milo


La Victoire de Samothrace? I think that's right


The Louvre.. lit up this time! But no cafe this time...
Note that this picture and the one of me in front of the Tour Eiffel at night are pretty much exactly the same as when I was there in 2004. Just thought that was funny.


Pretty sparkleys and the reflection


moi


A huge fountain in Versailles. We took forever in the garden and it wasn't even very pretty because it's winter. It would honestly take hours and hours and hours in the summer.


Take your pick of topiaries


Le Penseur. You might know him as The Thinker.
After Whitney left at 4 in the morning, I spent the day going to musee Rodin (only 1 euro to get into the gardens.. pretty sweet), and then I wasted time at the Jardin du Luxembourg before making my way to the airport.


I honestly don't know what this is, but I thought it was a pretty angle with the flowers


Another view of Le Penseur.