Noura happens to be the name of my best friend (hi, Noura!) and I got pretty darn excited to see the restaurant. And made Arran take several pictures.
Now, in terms of historical sites, we went to the Arc de Triomphe, which is actually a bit complicated to get to because it's kind of on an island surrounded by streets.
It really is beautiful. While Arran wandered around and took pictures I just sat in a corner and looked around- at all of the names on the wall, the ceiling, the reliefs. Very cool.
The Arc also offers opportunities for dramatic tourist photos :)
And silly ones, too!
Of course we also walked down the Champs-Élysées, which I tried to call the Champs-de-Lysées pretty much the entire time we were in Paris. The Arc is at one end of the street, so we just wandered on over after dinner. As you can see it was prettily decorated for Christmas with blue lights in all the trees!
How perfect for a picture!
The street had tons of shops and also the movie theatre where we went to see Avatar in 3-D with French subtitles later in the week! Arran and I both enjoyed the movie and I left really wanting my own dinosaur type creature to fly around on. And on the other end was the Luxor Obelisk, a giant Egyptian obelisk with gold painted hieroglyphics, which once stood outside of the Luxor Temple in Egypt.
And nearby there was a fountain with mermaids, who look like their snuggling with fish!
Those last two pictures were for Marilee :)
So, there are still more pictures to come, worry not!
Thank you for taking pictures of the mermaid statue (and thinking of me)! But, I love the ones of you and Arran the best! You two are so darn cute, funny, witty, and so good looking!
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