missangelalexis
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Sounds like you had a nice morning with your brother! Though I'm sorry your parents ended up getting frustrated with you.
Beautiful pics of Notre Dame!
Beautiful pics of Notre Dame!
While the Centre Pompidou is actually home to a huge public library, modern art museum, and centre for music and acoustic research, all I really cared about was the building itself. It was originally designed in 1971 and is truly revolutionary, with its basic skeleton exposed and huge tubed escalators up the outside of the building make it super recognizable. Everything is also color coded, with green pipes for plumbing, blue ducts for climate control, yellow conduits for electrical, and red for safety and circulation elements. I think nearly every engineering textbook I've ever used has had a photo of this building in it!
So, yeah, a bit weird and not quite my style, but to each their own!
I think it was more mom being worried and exhausted. But once we got out of the cathedral, and realized it wasn't our fault (my phone could send/receive texts - it was Dad's silly phone plan that didn't work well), she was fine.Sounds like you had a nice morning with your brother! Though I'm sorry your parents ended up getting frustrated with you.
Beautiful pics of Notre Dame!
I don't hate art, modern art is just a bit weird for me! I did love Musee d'Orsay, and in the Louvre I cared more about sculpture and artifacts more than paintings. Orangerie was also good and didn't take too much time.I am with you on the art. Part of me thinks the reason I didn't love Paris is because we went to like no less than 3 art muesums a day in an 8 day stretch, except for the one day we went to Versailles. I LOVED Versailles. I would have been fine with just going to the Louvre and calling it a day. I did however enjoy Notre Dame! I agree though, you don't need a ton of time to view it.
Yeah, always drama! Afterwards we realized we couldn't really count on texting to meet up, so would come up with a time/place as an alternate!I love French bakery yum!
Glad you got to see the library with the very interesting architecture, wow!
I have been to Paris, never saw that!
Glad your family all found each other, even with a little drama lol!
That building must have been built after I visited! I got into both Queens and McGill and did visits of both when we realized my first choice university in the US would have cost $40,000/year! Queens was nice, but I preferred living in Montreal!The engineering building here at Queen's University has a similar concept. When you go inside you can see the skeleton as you described.
I feel the same about Modern Art. For example, this piece is in Ottawa.
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I don't get it. Why is this worth millions?
That building must have been built after I visited! I got into both Queens and McGill and did visits of both when we realized my first choice university in the US would have cost $40,000/year! Queens was nice, but I preferred living in Montreal!
Ah, yes then that would have been a year after I visited (graduated high school in 2003). Now, I vaguely remember the engineering building being under construction...It was built in 2004. Here's a link to information on the building. I remember thinking how neat it was when I first walked through it.https://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/b/beamish-munro-hall
Montreal would definitely be the more interesting city to live in overall as Kingston is "small town" but I do love Queen's.
which is known as the street in Paris with the most high-end patisseries
Croissant Count: 1, Crepe Count: 0
Yeah, I'm a weirdo!
There is also an Archaeological Crypt of Notre Dame underneath the square in front of Notre Dame, but unfortunately we didn't visit it because it's closed on Mondays.
It was originally designed in 1971 and is truly revolutionary, with its basic skeleton exposed
So, I don't really get Modern & Contemporary Art.
There was one incident where my dad was almost pick-pocketed by a bunch of people who suddenly surrounded him trying to get him to sign a petition. Mom and Lauren knew to just keep walking and say no forcefully, but Dad can be too gullible and stopped. Luckily a French businessman knew what was happening and rushed over to get the pick-pocketers to leave him alone! (Thankfully that ended up being the only real incident with attempted theft on our trip.)
As she was sitting there she just kept hearing and seeing convoys of armed cars driving around and soldiers with assault rifles
I know! I actually had a bunch of them bookmarked on my maps, so I could try and hit them all!Annnd sold! Sounds like the perfect location to me!
Yeah, I considered if I was over there on when it was open, I'd try to stop in, but just never worked out!The crypt tour sounds cool (I googled it b/c you say the word "crypt" and I'm automatically intrigued), I'm sorry you missed out on that.
You summed up my feelings when you said, "Now, this is just blue paint."
Yeah, definitely. I was happy it was just the once and was unsuccessful.So I'm really, really glad to hear you didn't have more instances like this. That could have put a serious damper on the trip.
Because I knew Earl of Sandwich was in the terminal, I already planned on that. But sometimes for longer flights I’ll go to Subway that morning (or night before) and get a sandwich for the plane. Yes, it’s not as good as fresh, but still better than some of the airline food! You can also check your airport’s website and terminal map to see if there’s a similar sandwhich place there, so at least then it’d be fresher!You’re trip is wonderful!! We leave in 8 days and are heading to Germany first then DLP/ Paris. Can I ask what type of Snacks you brought with you on the plane? I’m a picky eater and am worried that what they serve won’t be great or I won’t eat it.
Glad to have you! And you should be there for Princess and Pirates, which looked absolutely amazing this year!Excited to be following along! We are taking a trip to Paris as well as DLP next May so I’m paying close attention. Can’t wait to read more.
I adore stained glass (I took a weekend class once but never followed up with it to continue) so that was beautiful!The inside of Sainte-Chappelle is stunning! All that beautiful stained glass!
Mmm all those pastries look delicious! I'm gonna guess you went with the chocolate one!
Yeah definitely try and get there! I’ll also have a couple other French history sites (some known, some more unknown) so maybe you’ll get enough inspiration to make another trip!I'm bookmarking both those sites because they look stunning and encompass the little of French history that I know. I'm not sure if I'll make it back to Paris before I leave, but if I do I definitely want to check those places out. The stained glass was unbelievable.
And the Shakespeare bookstore sounded fun!
I'm gonna say you got the chocolate cake from the store. But that's only because it looked the most delicious to me and I wanna hear if it tasted as amazing as it looked.
Glad you made it back to the rental before the rain got too bad.
I’m such a bad influence!Joining in! That Cathedral looked absolutely beautiful! I can't wait to read the rest of your trip report since you will probably talk me into going to Disneyland Paris!