Le 26 Avril 2009

I saw Victor Hugo’s house on Friday. It was incredible. On the second floor there was an art exhibit with elaborate paintings interpreting his writings. They also had original copies of his writings, pictures of him, and amazing sketching he did. He was incredibly talented. The apartment where he lived was on the third floor. It was so elaborate, full of heavy red curtains (over windows that looked out over La Place de Vosges, a famous garden), china, and paintings. There was one room that was done in an oriental theme. It was very cool.
I also went to the Paris catacombs. At one point I was walking in this dark low passageway which seemed more like a cave. There were mini stalactites with water dripping down from them. The walls on both sides were made up of artistically piled up bones and the floor was a mix of damp clay and pebbles. Each pile of bones had a sign saying where the bones had come from. It would be weird to be forever marked as what graveyard your bones were dug up in instead of your name. I guess that wouldn’t be as weird as people making art out of your bones for generations to come to look at and take pictures of. I did not take any pictures of the bones. It just felt too disrespectful.

Le 22 Avril 2009

My parents came to visit. They got to Paris on the ninth, we went to Ireland on the sixteenth, and they left to go back to the states on the twenty first. I got to show them all around Paris. We went to la Tour Eiffel, the d’Orsay, San Chappell, and the Opera House. We also climbed the bell tower of Notre Dame and went to Easter mass at Notre Dame too. Other than that we just explored and enjoyed the nice weather. In Ireland we went to the Giant’s Causeway and the swinging bridge in Northern Ireland and then we stayed in Dublin. In Dublin we saw Trinity College and the Book of Kells, the Guinness factory, Grafton Street, and many other fun things. I enjoyed seeing my parents and still think that the Irish countryside is the prettiest countryside in the world!

March 26, 2009

Tonight I went to a classical concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra. It was beautiful. There was a piano player who was incredible and the orchestra was wonderful too.