Day 9

Today I visited the Chateau de Vincennes and the Holy Chapel. Its been off and on raining, which just adds to the humidity of Paris. It's pretty gross, not going to lie. Below is the Castle, or the chatelet. It has 6 floors and we walked a combined hundreds of flights of stairs. 

These stained glass windows are all along the staircases and I loved them! 

This is the Holy Chapel which is now a museum. I don't think any services are held here anymore.

This is the interior of the church from the second floor. The sun came out while I was in the church so I was able to get a good shot of the windows. I was excited about that!

The guards are practicing for Bastille day on July 14th so we got to catch a little bit of their practice and hear the band play.

We left the Chateau to go to the Park Floral de Paris for a picnic. There was a really nice stream that ran through the park. We didn't get to get very close to it, but there was a hanging orchid garden right across from the stream.

A small group and I walked an extra mile to the pond and rented row boats. It was A LOT of fun. Andrew, the guy in the San Jose shirt is on the UCLA crew team so he rowed the boat for the 3 girls in black while my boat all took turns rowing. We had a few malfunctions, but nobody fell in! I was the last to take a turn rowing so Andrew and I decided to race. He beat me, obviously, but it was close!

This was the highlight of my day! After all the rowing in the hot sun everybody was tired and thirsty and complaining about wanting ice cream. Miraculously we walked right into a snack bar. I couldn't resist the iced lemonade!

For now I am going to take a nap, grab some dinner with a few friends and then watch the Germany, Italy game!