Friday, July 23, 2010

Here's another one :) toward the end we are all singing one of the songs... I'm not sure which but i'm willing to bet its ... y viva espana lo lo lo lo lo lo... because that one is the popular one!

Ok everyone so I've been trying for over a week to upload the videos after we won the world cup :) it says its working now so I'm going to post it and 2 more I hope this gives an overall jist of how crazy it was! (note: it might be good to lower the volumn!)

Monday, July 19, 2010

Um, so the airport didn't have any seats... we decided to sit on the floor! The problem is that we were right in front of one of the gates, and the second they open up checkin everyone sprints in to get the best seats, we were almost trampled!
We arrived in Madrid just in time to catch the overtime on the World Cup final! Here we are in the plaza de los Cibeles with our LUGGAGE.


I think this is just after we won the World Cup!




They set off Fireworks in the crowd





Saturday, July 17, 2010

Picnic under the tower! It was delicious and slighty rushed but amazing all the same :)



Rushing from the airport to catch the end of the World Cup finals Game



METRO MADRID!






This guy is the Mascott of Paris. I don't really know what he is called but I know he is also used to measure the water level of the city! This isn't the real one.. its a blow up right outside of the museum of Orsay

Breakfast in France!

FRENCH FLAGS!







Me and Grace outside of the Notre Dame The beautiful stained glass windows!

The Musee de Orsay

We thought that this bridge was pretty









This is the last one from outside the Louvre! I promise!This is the Pont Neuf, oldest bridge in Paris






And the lovely Notre Dame






Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Me and Mona are pals














These pictures in front of the Louvre are some of my favorites from the past 2 months. It was such a beautiful place to hang out and take pictures and take in Paris Shadows, i'm on the left and marissa is on the right


The Louvre lets tourists take pictures! This is the statue of Cupid and Pshyche!



The Nike







In spanish we say IMPRESIONANTE whcih doesn't exactly translate to impressive, but something more, there isn't quite a word like it in English
haha this one is me trying to fit with the entire tower. Not Easy when you are standing 20 feet from the tower

The Louvre! (my spanish family calls it la looov ray).











Views from the top! The elevator conductor said that it was 276 meters high. It definitely took a second to get comfortable up there! Ok, the guy who took this picture took 5 others and this was the best. So sad. From left to right: Grace, Me, Marissa, and Miranda

Views from the top


The Louvre I believe


Marissa and I






The tower seems a lot bigger from underneath! Army guy.. Kind of scary that they are allowed to have machine guns around so many people

EIFFEL, the person


The view from the first floor of the tower!


The view of the top of the tower from the first floor!






This is the dedication of the Arc, the gold circle has a fire that is always burning!

Its no wonder Paris is the Shopping capital of the world... With 5 story stores such as Cartier and Sworosky i wonder how anyone saves any money.
Giant Louis Vuitton!



First view of the tower!