A taste of France

I realize that my writing here is determined by 2 things:

1) whether there is time AND
2) whether the internet connection is good

And Paris totally satisfies these 2 conditions! Most of the time, we're stuck in the hotel room now because it keeps on raining. ARGH. But on the bright side, it's never gotten so good, but now my internet connection is at maximum strength thanks to the lovely hotel we're staying at!! Yay! So in gratefulness, I have more pictures up =D

We started out visiting The Louvre this morning. And I take back what I said about just the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame being grand, cuz.. All the attractions are grand!!! Check out the length of that building. And that's only a portion of it!


And what's inside does indeed live up to expectations. The halls are HUGE and elaborately decorated. Although the artpieces and sculptures inside each hall are already fantastic, the halls itself are even bigger artpieces!! Below is a just one of the more ordinary halls. Some of the other halls even have paintings with gold frames on the ceilings itself! The whole place just spells opulence.

See how big the paintings are, compared to all the people!! And if you realize, the frames on the artpieces are super thick too. My dad was telling my sister and I that some frames are worth more than the paintings itself! By the way, the crowd was there because of the original Mona Lisa.

And.. *DRUMROLLS*, here's featuring the most most most famous sculpture of all!!! The lowest statue below the other two is the most important and most visited.

So anyways, when we hit the Egyptian section of the museum, my dad was in a decidedly good mood, and happily gave us his version of what he believed the display actually was.

"This is what the Egyptians read as their storybooks."

"Hey, you see! Chat Noir was not started by French, but by Egyptians!!"

"This in an ancient Egyptian recipe manual! First you throw one duck in, followed by two chickens.."

(Notice that there're a lot of bird-like hieroglyphs)

"This marks the time when the Egyptians sang 'so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen goodbye!"

"The Egyptians using flotation devices."

"Egyptian school childrens' homework!"

"The Egyptians also know how to rock!"

"These are Egyptian pyjamas!"

"Look, girls. These are Egyptian mirrors. But, they double up as fans."

Haha. Oh no.. now we know he cannot work in a museum. So anyways, after that, we tried going to Museum d'Orsay, but it's closed on Mondays!! =((. Roar. We decided to try not to waste the trip out, and just visit the Arc de Triumph, though it wasn't originally on the list of things to see on our trip. It was pretty, but we didn't know what to do really. So we left after staring at it for 5mins. Oooops..

Since it was raining so bad, the only thing left to be done was SHOPPING!!!!! Whee!! Went to Galleries Lafayette, the high-end department store in Paris. BRANDED BRANDED BRANDED. It was more like a "rich people retail therapy indulgences" museum rather than a shopping centre, because everything was so damn expensive. And I spent most of the time window shopping instead, and just bought one set of poker cards =.=

The next shopping area to hit was Printemps. But it was supposed to be more expensive than Lafayette!! So I gave up and just stood outside taking pictures. There were so many rabbits on display. Kept on looking at them more than the model.

Auddie Ippodie puddle of goo!! As promised, I took a picture of Chanel for you!!! Maybe if I'm stinking rich in the future then I'll sponsor you some goods ok. Haha.

At least window shopping kept us busy for a while. Saved lots of money too, given the amount of time we had to shop.

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