Zach Vineyard

Once again, grammar…sorry

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We have three hours to kill before we have to catch the metro to take our train to marseille. I can’t believe that this trip is only a third over.

Honestly after the flight in first class if we just turned right around I would have thought the money and time well spent.

It’s day 4 but I still need to talk about 2,3

We awoke on the second day much like today, unsynced with the world around us. Everyone asleep, us bright eyed and bushy talesd. FYI dan doesn’t like you calling him bushy taled for any reason.

We walked to Notre dame at 5:30 because we couldn’t stand it inside anymore, and it was just us and the green litle elves that take out the trash and spray down the sidewalks. We got videoscapes and photos in front of the notre dame. my impression. I wanted to play the game called sanctuary where you run in and scream that. Dan didn’t get it and I didn’t have the time or footnotes to explain why thats funny to do. Dans probably right.

It was a cool morning and we walked all around the building taking video and pictures, the last shot we got was on the bridge of the river looking at the building. On the bridge were hundreds of keyed locks locked to the railing of the bridge with names and dates, of people who wanted to say I was here. I scribbled out one and wrote my name over it, it felt good to leave apart of yourself there.

One thing Dan has noticed about Paris is how irritable I get when I’m hungry. We made it to one of the bologeries that dan had mark down, and waited for the doors to open from the wonderful smells coming from inside.

Dan ordered two pans de chocolate and a milfoy . The milfoy was excellent but they gave us crossaints instead ( which were still excellent) we went down a little to a  pastry shop that just opened and got the most decadent food I ever have eaten. We got a baguette and headed out for the lourve. We just wandered as we had time before it opened and pastries to eat. It was amazing everywhere you looked was another amazing building.

One of my best memories was eating those pastries over the river siene.

We didn’t have our map on us but we new the lourve was in a general direction, so when we came upon the amazing square it was as if we were discovering it, and it was literally the first time that my mind was blown away by the majesty and epicness of it all.

Seeing the royal palace that now holds the worlds most amazing history is highly recommended if you dont have anything else going on.

We found that it was indeed the lourve and that a line was forming to get in. We didn’t know how lucky we where to get in so early as the buses showed up and there was a massive line forming behind us, so dan didn’t get caught up in it, but I suddenly felt this sense of urgency once they started letting people in. Suddenly it was a mad dash to the mona Lisa, dan grabbed the map while I made my way over to get the tickets. I looked on the map and said there under a big M, and we were off.

Running is expressly forbidden, but speed walking is evidently well tolerated. We started passing by these amazing works of art and history, stopping people with there siren song as they lost the eye on the prize.

The main problem was that the lourve is massive , it would take a week to see everything, and a lifetime to appreciate it. But we finally made it and were one of the first ones. We saw it took our picture and then left to find a seat. So tired is all I remember, after that.

As feeling came back to our legs and minds we noticed the dates of the paintings , 1492 1300,s but the building itself is still the most amazing thing. My breath was taken away again when we walked in a room again and saw the cieling of all things.

I now know how I want my bathroom decorated.

Since our tickets were good for the day we came up with the plan to go back and rest then eat at this little restaurant and the see more of the lourve.

Which we did. The cafe was picturesque and the menu in French so dan ended up ordering for us and then suddenly I was on Paris fear factor as I had to eat snails as an appetizer and it pretty much lingered the entire meal. They tasted like garlic and butter, they didn’t taste bad, but the imagery that I was eating snails never could be masked. I’ve seen French people eat and order and they never order snails, I think they invented the dish and called it a delicacy just to se if we’d eat it and then laugh. It’s the longest running practical joke.

After that we went and videod the siene with waterbuses going under the bridge and the dan saw it. The weather had Ben overcast the entire time we’ve been here so when the skies cleared A little we were able to see the effiel tower, there, so close this entire time.

We went back to the lourve and saw more statues and napoleand apartments, it was as if he told his decorator, you know what gawdy looks like? Well I want that times a 1000.

Still amazing!

We stayed till closing. Couldn’t see it all. Dan got some night shots on the way home.

We went to sleep early so we could get to the effiel tower early.

Exhausted