When you think of Paris...

...you inevitably think of the Eiffel Tower.

It's a small weird, weird world - The Parisian Edition

[CAN CAN GIRLS]

When you think you can't
You'll find you can can!
[SOPHIE]
Everyone can can can!
[SOPHIE AND CAN CAN GIRLS]
You can can can too!

--Anastasia Soundtrack, "Paris Holds The Key To Her Heart"

The lyrics really have absolutely nothing to do with my trip, but Anastasia has been my favorite princess ever since I learned of her existance when I was in grade school, and this song is so fun to sing.

What else is fun and a little bit obnoxious?

Selfies!

Not the most flattering blog ever written about Paris

The first thing I noticed about Paris was....how to put this delicately.....

It's kind of gross.

Now some of my perception could be blamed on the fact that I just came from the Netherlands and the Dutch people are stereotypically clean freaks.  The street sweeping truck passed me multiple times a day in Amsterdam.  I'm pretty sure they employ someone just to go around and find all the gum people spit out during the day.  My view of all cities everywhere has been ruined by the cleanliness of Amsterdam.

But regardless.  Paris...

Paris

Today is my second full day in Paris, though it will be my third night.  Unfortunately my wifi has been startlingly bad for the last week so my posts have been nonexistant.  But the good news is that means I have a whole slew of blog entries about Berlin ready to post over the next couple days, and then I'll post about Amsterdam as well.

But for now, have some Paris!!

Top left: Notre dame at night
Top middle: super lame typical tourist photo with the pyramids at the Louvre
Top right:  Gee, I wonder what that is
Bottom left: Ummmmm, guys, I was at the Tour de France!
Bottom middle: me on the river Seine
Bottom right: the ceiling of one of the gazillion rooms in the Louvre