PARIS!

A couple of weekends ago I strapped on my beret, put on some skinny jeans, and flew up to Paris for the weekend. To put it bluntly, I loved Paris itself, but the people left little to be desired. Parisians are due for a solid zombie Apocalypse. In fact, if Paris looked like a cleaner version of the first 1:30 of that video that would have been just dandy. Seriously people, how can you be so smug and pretentious when you have sewer rats the size of my sister-in-law's dog, Effie, running around your streets at night? Gross. Anyway, enough of the bad and more of the good. The food was delicious! Escargot, fois gras, and about a million other hard-to-spell dishes were what I ate the entire weekend. The French might have one of the best noses for food on the face of the earth second only to the fine people from Louisiana.

The sites were comparable to the food. The Eiffel Tower, The Arc de Triomphe, Versailles, and the Louvre were all beautiful. Once again, the only thing that degraded these awesome places were the nocturnal Effie's that were running around everywhere.

Alex's friend Megan was nice enough to give us a tour of the whole city since she lived in Paris for most of her life. She is VERY proud of her home. In fact, when we were at the Arc de Triomphe she enthusiastically explained to the group how French soldiers would march under the arch after a victory in war (this may have happened a total of like 2 times). I was quick to point out that the French weren't the only people marching in victoriously. Good call on that Maginot Line, that was a real winner of a plan. Well, thank God for America because we show up, start busting heads together, and introduce Hitler to the People's Elbow. (In case you didn't pick up on it, America is the Rock and Germany was Hulk Hogan.) Sorry for the long aside, but I just need to make sure people understand world history. Anywho, on to the pictures.




And yes, the Eiffel Tower sparkles...every hour on the hour for ten minutes. I felt like I was watching a movie trailer for Sex and the City. Spare me.





The famous gate to the Palace of Versailles with a much less famous guy standing in the picture.



The Hall of Mirrors!