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| A little embrace for a little shrub outside les Invalides |
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| les Invalides |
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| Cannons within the walls |
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| Napoleons tomb |
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| les Invalides from the south |
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| Parisian children are lucky beyond belief |
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| Eiffel Tower in the distance |
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Sacre Coeur
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| Kissing Oscar Wilde's tomb |
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| Wall full of ash plaques in Pere Lachaise |
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| Catacombs |
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| Dead |
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| View of Paris from first floor of Eiffel Tower |
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| The Eiffel Tower |
The end of a crazy weekend in Paris. The girls and I jetted out of Nemours on Friday and walked from corner to corner of Paris. We saw and did so much. Too much almost! At first we went to Napoleon's tomb in Les Invalides. Its a giant war museum with everything from the Ottoman Empire to WW2. Then of course we walked to the Eiffel Tower. It doesn't matter how many times you see it, it's just as magnificent as the time before. But the weather is playing games with us, because it was too cold to go up and the time before the tower was closed due to frost. We made our way back to the hostel and fell asleep nearly the second we walked in the door. The next day we went to Sacre Couer, the most awe inspiring place, God was there, just chilling in the pews, no question about it! Afterwards we made our way to the famous cemetery where Jim Morrison is laid to rest, as well as Oscar Wilde. It was no easy task finding those graves among 100 000 others! Just in case spending a few hours beside graves wasn't enough we went to the Catacombs. We waited in line even though Catacomb staff walked along the line telling us we wouldn't get in because the last entry time was quickly approaching. Lucky for us, we were the last people along with 2 behind us! We walked past bones from 6 million people...how do you think about? Oh! This skull was from someones mom and this skull was from someone else;s best friend. It was eerie, but at least the bones are honoured....by most. When we walked out, a security guard was confiscating stolen bones! Why would someone take someones bones? Modern day grave robbers. Shame on you. Once that was done we sprinted back to the Eiffel Tower to get sunset photos of it. I had a minor panic attack in between floor one and floor two. So I was unable to summit the tower, but the girls were dolls and took my camera with them. Then back home and insta-sleep. This morning we got up and made our way to Notre Dame for mass. It was weird sitting in the pews, listening to the priest thinking that for some people the most famous church is someones home church. Some lucky Catholics call that grandiose, magnificent structure home on Sunday's...crazy! I'm tired of touring and it's time to go back *home* to Nemours.
Looks like you are having an amazing time! In other news, I just did my first body rock video. I don't think I have ever been so close to throwing up from working out. No lie.
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Its true. Body rock will you make you hurl. I introduced body rock to the girls here and they love it. I have someone to workout with! I haven't gone for a single run since I've gotten here though - the river makes the temperature seem so much colder. I would love to run in minus 5 in Calgary, but minus 5 here is unacceptable!
ReplyDeleteI would love you forever if you would send me the links to your favourite body rock workouts! I am having a hard time finding the good ones that you and Heather talked about. All the ones I find are either really short or require special equipment!!
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Check out my workout page on the blog. I'll update it every few days. Otherwise, you can look on bodyrock.tv and check out All Workouts, but then scroll all the way down to the bottom and skip pages back. That's where the old school workouts are with no equipment. And you can make up your own workouts with the page that says All Exercises. Again scroll back to the beginning. The new bodyrockers are not my favourite...gotta get back to Zuzanna....she's the goodness
ReplyDeleteSo much cool stuff. I am soooo jealous!
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