The Tower Again! Plus a few other pictures

This'll give ya vertigo when you're standing there looking down... that yellow thing is the elevator.

They are repainting the Tower. Again. I guess they do that every so often.

I just love this building, sitting there stoically between two other buildings. Nothing in America looks like this.

This is the view from the 2nd story window of the house we stayed at in Compiegne, north of Paris. Lovely town.

The unbelievably huge lawn stretching away from the palace in Compiegne. It used to go all the way to Versaille as a kind of road. Now people go there to hang out and juggle.

The palace.

Compiegne's town hall. There was a wedding happening there and everybody was honking their car horns or, in the case of one individual, revving his Lamborghini's engine.

Even More - because you can't have too much of Paris

Details, details... la Tour Eiffel is rather fascinating

More of Paris (well specifically the Eiffel Tower)

More from our day in Paris, because we took too many pictures that day

Paris was terrific... here is more proof.

School children









Eating lunch on the Seine



Timber framing in the house we stayed at. It's normal.



Nutella.

Paris

On Friday we took the train to Paris - about a 40 minute ride from Compiegne (the town we are currently in). We did a lot that day: ate a picnic lunch along the Seine river, walked the wrong direction trying to get to the Eiffel Tower, saw houseboats and a building covered in plants and lots of tiny cars, walked past amazing bridges, climbed about 700 steps up the Eiffel Tower, were serenaded as we drank kir in the Latin Quarter, and paid an entire euro to use the toilet at the train station. Laura turned down a free demonstration of hakuna matata from a man wielding a piece of string, which could have been the highlight of the day; we'll never know.

French pigeon

Notre Dame

Our first view of the Tower

Reasons for loving Chicago

Mangy pigeons


It makes us awesome


Successful student visa interviews


Shiny beans


The river


Lost inhibitions

Place des Augustins

A lovely little street in Aix-en-provence.

The First One

Ok, here it is. A blog for us.
We could really use some pictures here.

Thanks to some important people who helped us get past our paralyzing indecision regarding this one thing we had to do before we could create our blog.