The Hotel RoomThis is my hotel room. Very small, but super comfortable. I was on the top floor, so the window afforded an excellent view down the Rue de Canette.
The BathroomThe bathroom was also very small, but smelled amazing. I credit it to the shampoo. I stole two bottles of it to try and make my bathroom smell as good.
016The Louvre. This is just the (very very long) east wall.
027Lee and I in the first courtyard of the Louvre. It is impossible to capture how utterly massive this building.
033In the next courtyard over. A google search for an overview of the palace and how much ground it covers is well worth your time.
046One of many pictures I took of the amazingly ornate and grand ceilings that are in nearly every room.
058The Mona Lisa. It was insane trying to get close enough to get a decent picture. One Asian man stood there for no less than five minutes continuously taking picture after picture after picture....
075The Winged Victory. It is so amazing to see these pieces in person.
072An utterly massive painting of Josephine being crowned by Napoleon by David. These paintings were very obviously done for the palace. No place else has wall space enough to house them.
086Another gold ceiling. It is a small wonder that there was a revolution when the king lived in such rooms and nearly everyone else was completely dirt poor.
120The view of l'Ecole Militaire from the second level of the Eiffel Tower.
123I almost fell off the tower trying to take this picture. It is suprisingly dizzying looking straight up.
149The Alexander III Bridge, my favorite. It is very very long. This was apparently an architectural wonder because it was one of the first bridges to span the river without any supports in the middle.
Brook Hales
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L'Opera
Cool.