17.11.11


Dear Spain, I will miss you. Love, Alexis.

P.S. Utah, I've missed you & I'm excited to come back.

13.11.11

Paris

If I were to choose a perfect moment in my life, this may or may not be it. But it may..

 

Rapunzel, Rapunzel...

This really made me so happy.
Happiness over in 5 seconds...
Beautiful wild mushroom.
Sunset on the first night!

This is such a perfect Paris house.

Our hotel walls were pink with white trim. What! PINK WITH WHITE TRIM. That's perfect Paris, too.
Okay story time. So we arrived at our hotel after our flight from Madrid. I went and dropped off my bag and started walking down the street from our hotel and I saw this cute little display with gold fish sitting on the corner. It was the perfect photo taking moment. So slyly I took the lens cap off my camera in preparation for a photo. But apparently more than one person has tried to photograph this precious display, because literally the moment I took the lens cap the owner of the store walked onto the front step of his shop and looked at me and shook his finger. I really don't know how he knew I was going to take a picture because I only took the lens cap off! And I wasn't even obvious. What. He read my mind. So then I walked down the street (that's about 30 feet away) and took this picture. But then out of no where he came RUNNING after me and YELLING at me in French and I honestly could not tell what he was saying except for the word "no" and "photo" and I sensed that he was irate. So I just zoomed in/cropped that photo to get the shot I wanted, which turned out alright. I wish I could have gotten a close up. Let's just say I was scared to take photos of anything the rest of the trip. Although I still managed to take 600 + photos. Wait, how did I take that many. 




View from our hotel window. Below was a cute garden! How is Paris so cute!


Paris wall paper in our Paris hotel. Perfect.
This fits my personality. I love bikes, I don't love dogs.
Paris sky. Paris building. Paris grass.
A mystery room I discovered.
Still a mystery.
Notre Dome! There were sah-U-per loud organs playing. And then some people in costumes came in and the candles were lit. It was my favorite cathedral, and trust me, I've seen hundreds of cathedrals. Actually thousands. Actually millions.



French onion soup! In France! On a cold day! Sitting in a cafe! It was perfect! In paris! Wow! I loved it!
I literally touched that wall where a prisoner carved their name in 1600.

 

  




 
The Louvre.
  
HAHAHAHA. Don't tell this nice Asian man that he is on my blog. But I couldn't resist.
 
Since the Mona Lisa doesn't have any eyebrows, I decided to shave mine off.
April Fool's! I just Photoshopped my eyebrows off.
It was kind of a mini goal to light a candle in one of the Cathedrals because they are always so pretty! So I did. Then everyone sang happy birthday to me! And I blew it out! Just kidding. I just lit it then walked to the next beautiful thing I saw.

Emily and I had so much fun exploring! This moment in particular was perfect. We were sitting on the top of the Madeline steps, the sun shining perfectly on our cute little tourist faces, eating cheese bread and not being able to imagine how our lives could be any better at that exact moment. The couldn't have! (Unless Emily was my future crush/husband.)

I love moss.



Here come the Eiffel Tower photos. I took probably 200 at the Eiffel Tower, but I summarized and chose some of the best ones.
This is not one of the best ones. This photo is just super artsy. (Unintentionally.) (And I did not mean to upload it to my blog but I'm laughing at how artsy it is so I'm leaving it on the world wide web for everyone to see. That includes Germany because someone from Germany has been frequenting my blog. Maybe it's my future husband...)
In the day time. (Notice I'm perfecting my non-American smile. I look so European these days...yesssss....)
At night! It was so pretty. And then it started glittering!! WHAT!! THAT WAS REAL LIFE. THE GLITTERING EIFFEL TOWER. I can't even believe I was lucky enough to experience such a great moment.

Look at Emily blowing a kiss in front of the Eiffel tower! She is too cute.