Here's a view from Andrew & Ann's apartment. I think this turned out to be my favorite picture from the whole trip. This is what I was attempting to take when Andrew photo bombed me (first pic of the slideshow).
Here's the Louvre at night. Andrew took us on a tour of the city the first night, so we got to see a lot of the sights lit up at night.
Eiffel at night...
This picture is pretty similar to the first one above, but it's shot at a focal length that's closer to what you'd see with your eyes, so the perspective is more correct. The Eiffel was really this big from Ann & Andrew's balcony.
Eiffel during the day.
Another favorite.
We went and saw the Arc de Triumph.
Here's the view towards the Louvre from the top of the Arc.
After the Arc we walked down the Champs Elysees. This picture tickles me. There's a very french guy sitting at a Cafe, next to the McDonalds "McCafe". I like to imagine that he's very disgusted with the situation.
So there's a pretty sweet story about our entrance into the Louvre, ask me or Lindsay about it if I haven't told you already. The take home lesson from the story though is that a whole lot of tourists will stand in a line just because it's there. You should question lines before you stand in them. Anyway, lots of incredible stuff inside. Everyone (us included) beelined to the Mona Lisa. The room was packed.
A very small section of the line we side stepped to get in...
There's some more pictures of the Lovure inside the slideshow, if you're interested. After we left the Louvre we went for a walk in the Tuillerres, it started raining on us. Luckily we had brought umbrellas.
There were tons of McDonalds in Paris, and they all looked like this inside...packed. American culture:1, French culture: 0
That's it! Check out the slideshow for more. If your monitor resolution is having trouble with the width of these I'd view the slideshow and try it fullscreen.
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