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Apparently I'm just really bad about writing here. I'm just going to blame it on doing too much and having too much fun though. It is gorgeous here, and my luck with the weather has continued to hold.
Jonette and I have taken to heart the idea that you learn a city best by walking it, and walk we have! Once we got settled into our apartment, which is perfect, we walked to cimetiere Père Lachaise. It was huge! And to make it better we learned that France celebrates a day of the dead like Mexico does, so the cemetery was full of people. Everyone was there with flowers and candles, cleaning graves and visiting others. After wandering around for several hours and having an eclair in honor of the dead we finally found Jim Morrison's grave. My favorite part of it was the tree beside it which many people had written his song lyrics and many other comments on. After that we found Chopin's grave which was really neat for me.
We have also wandered the Latin Quarter, explored Notre Dame (and countless other churches, cathedrals, and other grand building we were able to get into), walked the Seine, wandered Pigalle (though we got lost before we found the Moulin Rouge), and window shopped all the bigger districts. Yesterday we climbed to the top of the Sacre Coeur, which was an amazing view. And I found "La vie est belle, et vous etes comme elle!" or "Life is beautiful, and you are as she!" written on one of the marble benches at the top of the dome.
Then yesterday evening Jonette and I wandered our own ways. I ended up at the tip of the island which Notre Dame is on watching the sunset, and then spent a good deal of time taking photos of the carousel at the Hotel de Ville.
When we met back up we decided to go to an Italian restaurant we had walked by and later found a guide book write up for. It was amazing! The salad was fabulous, and I can't even begin to describe the homemade giant raviolis. The server/owner wasn't overly friendly, until Jonette realized he was actually Italian and began speaking Italian with him. He completely warmed up after that, although he was disgusted to hear she had spent so much time in Milan.
Today was brilliant blue skies, so we decided it would be a good day for me to climb the Eiffel Tower. Jonette was going to bow out, but I convinced her it would be a good climb, and the stairs were half the price of the elevator. So up we went, and it was such an incredible view. Better than I though it was going to be after going to the top of the Sacre Coeur which I had thought was higher. We spent a good couple of hours up there, though we still can't understand how people can be so lazy that they would pay double and stand in line for so lone, when there was no line for the stairs. It wasn't that bad!
Then we realized it was two o'clock and we only had an hour to get to the Galleries Lafayette for the fashion show, and we weren't quite sure where it was. We flew and made it there just in time! So much fun, and such cute outfits. I've never been to a fashion show before, and even if this was a minor free one, it was still a great experience.
I think that's a pretty good summary of the last several days. If I think of anything amazing I forgot to put in I'll write about it in the next post, which will hopefully be tomorrow. Unless I get all distracted again. Doesn't take too much unfortunately.