Le butte en Monmartre

mime in Montmartre

Since i'm going to talk about Montmartre, you should listen to this.

But first of all, time for a recap.

Yesterday i walked around the 16e arrondissement with Melissa and Heather. We saw the Statue of Liberty that the United States gave to France in 1986. it's the closest i've gotten to the one in New York and it was beautiful. In that area we also saw the bridge in inception (i took a pic for Rachel) and then we headed over to a museum that has many impressionist paintings. The Monets in the museum were so vivid. We then walked to les Bois de Bologne, one of Paris' best kept secrets. While not as charming as many French parks, this park is where the French actually go to hang out. You can rent a bike or a cute paddle boat and spend the day. We finished the day by splurging in our first real French restaurant in the Latin Quarter. I broke with my usual vegetarianism and ordered Shank of Lamb and had a few bites of Darian's duck. Darian and I split our favorite find in Paris, a Poire Belle Helene. Mmmmm.

Today after church, Melissa and I rushed over to Saint Chapelle, which we had never seen. It is a tiny chapel, but worth the visit. The windows were stunning and the whole room danced with color. After, we ate our lunch along the Seine (comme d'habitude), and then Maccord and i visited Père-Lachaise where we saw the graves of Chopin, Méliès, Gertrude Stein, Edith Piaf, and, of course, Oscar Wilde. I talked Macord, and English major, into putting on some tinted chapstick (lipstick was just too much), and we followed tradition by kissing the glass around his grave. Macord and I spent the rest of the afternoon on the hill in front of Sacre Cœur where we people watched and avoided the men who try to tie a bracelet around your wrist and then make you pay for it.

real food!

chopin's grave

shiny, shimmering thing

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?" --oscar wilde