Day 7

The Opera house was really cool, I'm glad I went on that excursion while the second group was at lunch with the professor. I have never seen so many marble staircases and crystal chandeliers in one place. 

The Marc Chagall ceiling and grand Chandelier. I just added that grand part, I'm sure that's not what it's actually called, but it's appropriate here. It weights 8 tons! I was so distracted by the ceiling I forgot to take a photo of the stage... whoops! 

This is on the balcony of Opera house that you can see from the photo below. Incredible view!

Inside the Opera house was really dark so it was hard to take good pictures that could really capture all the colors (and sparkle) but I did my best. 

After the tour, a few friends and I walked down Avenue de l'Opera and stumbled upon this magical place:

It's a chocolate shop that is actually pretty famous here in Paris, but we had no idea. We also hung around the tasting counter for a little longer than the chocolate girl behind the counter would have liked... The Amaretto truffles were to die for!

Then we continued our walked further and went to the international consulate square or something like that and played around on all these pillars.

Then we met back up with the rest of the class and went on a walk that wasn't particularly exciting. The only thing worth noting was walking around the Jewish neighborhood, the Marais, and getting falafel for dinner. Each pita pocket of goodness had to have weighed at least 1lb... And the pigeons wouldn't leave our group alone! They kept swooping on our food and it was disgusting. My friend Pam and I booked it for the metro and ate while we walked, hence no pictures documented this part of the day.

Also, our professor likes to take a group of 5 students out to happy hour to have a one on one and really get to know us so I went and ordered this refreshing little guy:

What a yummy mojito. The French know what they're doing when it comes to mixed drinks. It was refreshing to have a break from the regular table red. Oh yeah, did I mention that you will get scoffed at if you order anything other than water or alcohol when you're out at a restaurant? Theo, my professor, told us a story about Bill Clinton getting denied a diet coke at one of the uppity restaurants. 

As I am a day behind I will post about yesterday and today when we get back from our field trip. Sorry! I'm about to go to the castle where Eva Longoria and Tony Parker got married a few years ago! (Kinda sad that they are divorced today though)

Au revior!