i haven't forgotten! europe, part v.

i saved the best for last!

i left my heart in paris.

it's entirely worthy of a compromise to my strict "no return policy".

i'll go back
again

and

again

and

again

i loved the banana nutella crepes for every meal, the teeny tiny hotel in the latin quarter, the shopping {oh, the one-of-a-kinds i scored in the parisian boutiques...}, the mild weather, the open streets, the charming street signs, the sights i didn't see {coco chanel's apartment... hello!?}, and and AND the total CHARM of marie antoinette's estate. if i had to be sent to my room for the rest of my life like she did... i'd do it marie antoinette style.

i couldn't narrow it down. it was all my favorite. every second of every day.

when i go back...

i'm going to give 3 days to musee du louvre

a full day to musee d'orsay

i'll visit les invalides

and rodin's thinker

make my way to sacre coeur

hang out in picasso's charming neighborhood for a little while longer - with my camera

devote a few days to full blown, excessive, hard core money spending

visit versailles on the right day. like, when the palace is open.

and i'm going to see a moulin rouge show

{for some reason, watching topless women in glitter and heels seems acceptable in paris... in a way i'd never consider anywhere/time else. am i nuts?}

and, ironic - neither my mom nor i are the "take pictures of me in front of this historic building" type... so it's entirely possible that i googled all these pictures and just pretended to go to europe. but that's not how it went. i have the skymiles to prove it.