look flowers! don't smile!

aah paris. i may never leave. for serious. today we took the train to giverny to see monet's garden, which has been my dream since i was 5 when i saw linnea in monet's garden. best movie ever. since then, monet has been my favorite artist ever, i have the limited edition monet barbie, monet posters, monet stationary, monet beanie babies, monet thank you cards.... monet everything, so today was big. big big. we waited in line outside of monet's garden for an hour and a half ... long line + one ticket window= bad. but we chatted with some people in line, so it wasn't too bad. we walked in and it was like walking into heaven, it was soooo beautiful! flowers everywhere, vines wrapped around branches, green benches... so good. we made our way over to the pond where we saw the japanese bridge!!!!! and the green boats on the water!!! and water lillies!!! oh it was just so perfect. we wandered around giverny for a while and pretended to be belle from beauty and the beast, and then we took the bus back to the train station in vernon to catch a train to paris. we then took the metro to the louvre, because we thought it was the under 26 get in for free night, turns out it was under 26 get in for free day and the louvre is closed tonight... zut alors! we hadn't eaten in 7 hours and needed food, but didn't want to pay € 24 for dinner, so our only option was...... mcdonalds!!! hahaha so strange, we saw more french people in there than we've seen elsewhere, so that was cool.....on the metro ride back to the hotel we were working on our parisian scowl, in which you have to look bored, disgusted, and disinterested all at once, whilst judging other people's outfits and do it all with a pout... it's pretty difficult, but all parisians have seemed to master it, so i think if we keep working at it we might get it... or we might be too happy to look disgusted and bored, i guess we'll see... versailles tomorrow!!!

à demain!