I have a knack for Faces

Okay guys so the past two days have been really great and I have to tell you about them so you can be proud of all that I have accomplished.

So I finally got off my lazy butt and started site seeing (mostly because my Vampire Diaries episodes wouldn’t load so I had to do something else to occupy my time)
Why yesterday was a good day: I went to the Concierge and saw Marie Antoinette’s last prison cell before she went to the guillotine. I recently wrote a paper about her and have a new perspective on her so it was really interesting to see her cell. I also happened to spot a girl that looked JUST like the princess in a famous Velazquez painting Las Meninas. The best part was that my Art History professor was with me. When she saw the girl and my comment, she was blown away with how correct I was. It was truly incredible!Then I had a great work out in which I jumped around my room like a crazy person to Girl Talk songs….listen to That’s my DJ—its truly addicting, I have new appreciation for Girl Talk, how he mixes songs is pure harmony!

I showered and went with Katie and Liz to the Arc de Triomphe. Something I regretted not doing last time I came to Paris was climb the Arc, so I did this time! Great view. I love the historical context of the structure; awesome cannot even begin to describe it. But I also died like seven times climbing up spiral stairs…had the worst vertigo when I finally came back down to the ground. I then went with my climbing buddies to Longchamp and emotionally cheered on Liz in her purchase of a bag for her and her sister.

Today was an even better day! I went to the Musée d'Orsay and saw famously beautiful impressionist pieces. But something amazing happened. So standing outside the Orsay, I told the girls in my group that I had this feeling…a feeling that I was going to see a beautiful man (whom I jokingly said would be my husband). Sarah asked me when I would know if I saw him. And out of nowhere I said “We’ll all know because we will unanimously inhale breath in the shock.” Everyone laughed and we began a mini game of searching for my Mr. Hottie. Well as class was being dismissed we were huddled around Madeline (my Art history Professor) and

over her shoulder I saw this beautiful man looking at a painting. I only saw his side profile, but I was intrigued…what this my famous man. Then he turned and looked at me….And my breath was pulled out of my mouth. He was someone famous. I couldn’t peg who he was, but all at once a scene from A Knights Tale flashed before my eyes. I am not kidding, but the guy looked at me and realized that I knew he was someone famous. He quickly turned away. I immediately turned to the group because they knew that my attention was distracted and was like “Guys…that dude over there is famous, he’s from A Knights Tale.” No one believed me at first, but then when they looked over the shoulder and saw him, and remembered the character I said he played, everyone unanimously agreed it was him. I followed him into two different collections (Degas and Monet) and pretended to be interested in the layout of the building when really I was trying to wrack my brain and figure out what other movies he was in and what was his name. I was star struck. My palms sweaty. My heart racing. People who know me know that I LOVE MOVIE and LIVE FOR CELEBRATIES. It was such an exhilarating moment. The guy was Rufus Sewell. If I knew his name I would have totally asked for his autograph. He is here in Paris because he is filming The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp…sadly neither of them attended the Orsay with Rufus. But still, I was totally content.

Being on such a high from seeing Rufus, I went with some of the pople in my group to Ladurée—The famous boulangerie of Paris. I felt like I was in a scene from the Great Gastby, but instead of being having tea time at New York’s Palace, I was having iced coffee and macaroons in Paris. Lovely, lovely day.
And then to top it all off….I went an got my cartilage pierced in the late afternoon.

The end! Haha (Mom, please don’t kill me)

See I finally got the hang of the Paris things—climbing monuments, eating amazing desserts, seeing famous people, and getting body parts pierced. All in two days!