Buckingham Palace & Paris

Statue of the Queen outside Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Kelly and me in front of Buckingham Palace

Versailles Palace

Molly, Tori, and me in Versailles 

The Queen's bedroom

Molly and me in Versailles

Versailles

Saint Michael's fountain 

Molly and me in front of Notre Dame 

Top of Notre Dame 

Arch de Triomphe

The Louvre

Molly and me outside the Louvre

The Louvre 

Boat races outside the Louvre

Kelly and me outside the Louvre

The Eiffel Tower at night

Alright so I wrote a nice long description of what I did in Paris, but then my laptop went strange and deleted the whole blog post, so this one is going to be the quick summary of what that blog said, sorry!  I went to Paris this past weekend and I fell in love with the city! It is absolutely beautiful!  We only ran into two really rude french people so that was quite exciting and unexpected.  The food was ridiculous, even better than food in Italy I would have to say.  The crepes were to die for, the french onion soup; cannot even describe, and the bread just delicious.  We went to Versailles, walked around the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and went up one of the towers, Arch de Triomphe, Musee d'Orsay, the Louvre, and a boat tour by night.  It was so so much fun and I cannot wait to go back, the train ride was only two hours and relatively cheap, so am hoping I will actually go back.  We got to experience the night life of Paris, which was very much like going out in London; the other surprising thing about Paris was that Londoners are trendier and more fashionable surprisingly.  Well that is about all I can say, have to go finish up my homework so I can go to Morocco this weekend!  

Weeks 6 & 7

British Wicked!

Gross live modern art, note the live flies everywhere and the real cows head under the table with blood around it

London Fashion Week

Wales

Caerphilly Castle

Caerphilly Castle

Caerphilly, Wales

If you look closely you can see the Welsh writing

Caerphilly Castle

Caerphilly Castle

Caerphilly Castle

View of Caerphilly from a top tower of the castle

The ladies in the castle

All ready to go down into the still working mine, possibly the worst job in the world.

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

All of us at Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

 I have to leave to go out in 15 minutes so this is just going to be a brief summary of my past two weeks.  Week 6, nothing much exciting happened, mostly work and school- it was their "midterm" type week so was a pretty busy and uneventful week.  But I did get to see Wicked for free, which was really exciting.  It was strange seeing Wicked performed by people with British accents.  It was still good though, but still not nearly as good as broadway.  That was about it for week 6.  Week 7 was still a lot of work and Uni.  But I got to go to Wales this past weekend so that was quite exciting.  I had a lot of fun, but my return to Wales is highly unlikely.  It was nice to escape the city and see actual greenery.  We saw Caerphilly Castle, a museum of Welsh life which is pretty comparable to New Salem, some ruins that were not explained what they were, and we got to go down into a working coal mine.  After this experience, I will never complain about any job I have.  It was very scary being down there, very cold, if you do not shut doors behind you, you can suffocate, pitch black, luckily we had our handy helmets with lights attached, and the ceilings were very low; I feel like there should be some sort of height limit to work in the mines.  On our way to the hostel we were informed that Wales is known to be the biggest place for binge drinking and for getting pretty rowdy.  I thought there is no way Wales could beat out the States for binge drinking, I was very much mistaken.  Although the club we went to was really fun, semi civilized and clean, once we walked out of the club, there were people throwing up everywhere!  It looked like Lincoln St. in Chicago on St. Patty's day, but with no special occasion.  So Wales was fun, will not be going back, and that is about all for week 7.  This week looks to be pretty uneventful as well, but will take pictures of my daily routine; my dorm, work, Uni, the tube at rush hour, etc.