Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Opéra Garnier


The program gave away tickets to see The Rake’s Progress at L’Opéra Garnier. It was the most beautiful theater I’ve ever seen. We had balcony seats up on the third floor, so we had a great view of the massive chandelier in the center of the theater. Everything was ornately decorated and its crazy to think how long its been that way (since 1875)!

Here’s a question of the ages: If you notice in the picture, a few of the light bulbs on the chandelier and around the edge of the ceiling are burned out...how many people would it take to change those bulbs?!

I Lo(u)v(r)e Paris


I finally made it over to the Louvre. Its even bigger than I thought it would be... it NEVER ENDS! I tried not to take pictures of the art, they’re too easy to Google and get better quality versions than the ones I’d be able to take. But this one slipped in:

Thursday, March 6, 2008