Paris

I like Paris. Most of the time I like Paris a whole lot. Sometimes I even love Paris.

This week, I climbed Notre-Dame for the first time ever. The gargoyles are the best and I want to go back and look at them all, all over again.

 contemplating the city

 an elephant!

 a pelican, with a pigeon on his head!

 eating grapes

 he looks surprised

bath time

In the square in front of the cathedral, they've used different paving stones to mark where the medieval streets were at the time of the construction of the cathedral. This area on the island was for scribes, bookmakers, booksellers and other learned people. The streets crowded right up to the cathedral so upon stepping outside of a house or a shop, it was right there, towering.

Tour Montparnasse, the towers of Saint-Sulpice, the golden dome of Les Invalides, and la Tour Eiffel

 looking down the Seine

not my favorite part of Paris, but there is something undeniably grand and striking about it