Walking...so much walking

Ok, as promised, here are some pictures! This about sums up Day 1

 This was the view from our hotel room for the first night, it's very French n'est pas? However, as we learned by wandering around, it was also very ghetto. As my roommate pointed out this afternoon, aren't all French people supposed to be classy? haha. I love that we have all these romantic notions of Paris, but really it's a normal city.







This is where we have church and class. So cool! I'll get a better picture on Tuesday, but it's from the 1600s, and right across from the Pompidou Centre.

              Here is our hotel room, I had a much better picture, but for some reason one of my memory cards deleted all of the pictures on it :( but basically the entire hotel was from Ikea. Which was actually pretty awesome, even if it was in the sketchy part of Paris. They even had those wavy mirrors , the ones my sister has in her room, by the elevators. Oh! and I almost forgot! The shower had lights that went along with the temperature around the showerhead. Green for cold, blue for warm, red for hot. And blue and red for in-the-middle. Crazy. 

 The Institute is also a block or two away from Notre Dame, I've already been to Notre Dame about 5 times now, just walking past it. For my family: do you remember when we were on the top of Notre Dame watching those rollerskaters racing? I walked by them the other day, can you guess what the little colored things they were using as markers were? Yep, kid's cups from Ikea. I am seeing a pattern here. My host family even has them in the bathroom for our toothbrushes!

 This couple was just too adorable to not take a picture. This is classic Paris.

 The first night in Paris, we went on a boat ride down the Seine to see Paris. Here are some pictures:

This is actually on the way to the boat, the bridges are so pretty!

Eiffel Tower, of course

There are all sorts of people just hanging out on the banks of the river on nice days. This girl was playing a guitar.

Musée d'Orsay

on the boat

The most beautiful bridge in Paris

Hotel Dieu, the first hospital in Paris. The original was built here in AD 700

Here are some pictures from the Latin Quarter:

Well there's Day 1!