Trying to get lost in Paris

Well yesterday I went into Paris just trying to get lost. Moreso just wanting to sit back and take it all in. Because we have exactly 3 months left in France. It was good. I got out of the RER at Chatlet Les Halles and walked around the streets for a while. I stopped by the Eglise Saint-Eustache de Paris, a church close to the station, and hung around in the Jardin there for a while. I then made my way over to the Louvre where I began to notice my stalkers for the day. (Don't worry I'll explain later) Maybe it's best that I use pictures to show and talk about some of what I saw.

The Louvre Pyramid. The Weather was really nice and there was a choir group performing in the hallway. It had great accoustics and echoed throughout the entire pavilion. I then took off to walk along the Seine river.

I walked across at Pont Neuf, which goes throught the island in the middle of the Seine where Notre Dame and the French military are located. I stopped along the bridge at first because they have really cool sitting areas on the bridge. I listened to some music and watched the people as they walked by. You could see local artists taking up some of the small semi circular setting areas. Room for atleast 6 to 8, but normally occupied by just 1 or 2. The sun started to get hot and I felt Spring coming. I then walked to the picture above. The center islands end. Many people where doing the same thing. Wasting the day enjoying the weather. There where TONS of tourists out. The languages walking in the streets of Paris are as numerous as the new colors Crayola is coming up with to sell crayons. Plus you could tell they were tourists because each one of them had a camera strapped around their neck.

I sat next to an older German couple, I hung my feet off the edge and enjoyed it. You can also tell the season is changing because everywhere people are walking in pairs. The Germans laid out sharing a picnic. I thought that would be fun. About this time my two stalkers showed up right behind me and started taking pics, modeling in front of me. I chuckled inside and tried to ignore them. I got up and headed off to the South side of the river.

I wondered over to Saint-Sulpice finally and sat in front of this beautiful fountain in front of the Church with Lions on it. Wait let's play a game... kind of like where's waldo, only you have to find the pigeons in the picture....ready, go.

Anyways my stalkers again followed me to this place. I was sitting on a bench in front of the fountain, watching some boys play soccer, a camera crew recording the fountain and the people, and an elderly woman sitting next to me just taking a break. The stalkers who I found out were Italian walked right up to my bench and again started posing/ taking pictures right in front of me. I took this just as they walked in the way. At this point I kind of ruled out coincidence. They tried to talk to me, but only knew Italian. So my english was of no help. They shrugged at each other and then decided to walk away after they realized I wasn't going to burst into an Italian speech pattern.

After taking some time to think about what it's like for girls having stalkers. I decided to get up and look around some more. I wondered around and found this super sick tree. I just thought it was really cool.
I then made my way into the Jardin de Luxembourg. I big park area with lots of small kids playing, tennis courts, a huge fountain with people lounging around, and all kinds of activities. I watched some pick up ball and thought back to my 8th grade year and how I wanted to just play basketball and not focus so much on football. I'm glad that didn't happen. Street ball is street ball in any country the only difference was the sounds or the language being spoken. This was the large fountain in the park with tons of metal chairs available to the public. The center is the big fountain filled with ducks taking baths in the water. I found a chair that reclined and proped my feet on one a marble bench.

I think this is actually the back side of a Senate building in France. I'm not quite sure though so don't mark my words. It's good to realax and enjoy life. I think we rush too much in life to get "things" done, which are really not that important. Life's in the journey and it's good to be able to stop and smell the roses.

After a while a group of tourists came up right next to me and started taking pictures. I felt bad for the actual picture taker because as you can see there was atleast 10 different cameras he was responsible for.It was kind of fun watching him take 10 shots of the same picture. I thought to myself, sometimes it's better to just use one camera and then share or steal the photos from the one person's camera. I mean makes since right???
There was a cool lion statue. I think I'm obsessed with the sculptures and statues in Paris.

Since the time change which happened last Saturday night, the sun doesn't set until around 8:30 or so at night. Making the days feel like they go on forever.
Just a picture of me with the Montparnasse tower in the background. From up there you can see ALL of Paris. It was a good day. I'm loving Paris.