Walking in a winter wonderland

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We woke up this morning to the most beautiful sight. We looked out of the window and the whole street below was covered in a white blanket. It had snowed very heavily last night and had blanketed the whole of Paris. It was so beautiful.

Krisel's edit: Bonjour. I always wanted to wear high heeled boots and walk thru the streets of Paris - like they do on television - it always looks so hip and cool - but when I saw it in reality it was really the most uncool thing ever!! All the Parisian ladies were wearing high heeled shoes and just slipping and sliding in the slippery ice. It was so funny, but everyone just helped each other up and just continued on, like it was nothing out of the ordinary to be falling in the ice. I thought 'OMG why are you people wearing such high heeled shoes in the slippery ice. You could break your neck in a fall!!!'
The other thing I have to comment on is the bakery near Maria's house that we passed every day. The man looked so friendly so we went inside to ask him what was in the pies. He replied FROMAGE. We asked him if it was chicken and he repeated fromage. He could not speak English. We did not know what fromage was and thought it was so funny, so every day we went inside to ask him what was in the pies - just to hear him say the word. it was just the way he said it. We later learned that fromage is cheese.

The bakery inside Monoprix was also really nice. One morning mom bought us these delicious mini pizzas and while we were standing in the bakery eating them, mom went inside to do some shopping for lunch. The lady at the bakery was so kind, she gave Kee and me some little cakes to eat (for free) because we were waiting a long time for mom (long time being about 1/2 an hour!!!!). I thought that was so nice of her and those cakes were delicious!

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Photos

We woke up one morning
and this is waht we saw from Maria's apartment

a blanket of snow
covering the streets

the dirty streets of Paris
were so beautiful covered in snow

we just fell in love with
Paris all over again

And ended up staying
an extra day in this timeless city

The streets of Paris
were too beautiful in the snow

beautiful...
Paris

Walking in...
a winter wonderland with...

Life could not get
better than this

Gates to the
Parliament buildings