Berets and Baguettes: day3&4

man... all the exciting things happen around the same time and i can't keep up with blogging... anway. paris first.

Day 3
woke up early again (where i had even less sleep cos the jem snores and rach sleep talks and they take turns) and got on the train to Versailles... we gave the palace a miss cos it cost a lot to go in and we didn't think we could spare the time. bad call on hindsight (but it saved me 11 euros so i won't complain hehe)

mushrooms... yum.man if i had a faster focus and better reflexes...

took the train in a hurry back to central paris to see the catacombs... and of all the pathetic things to find...

fail. so we went to this huge graveyard instead. cannot see catacombs... substitute with gravestones... hmmm. anyway, some really famous french people were buried in that graveyard (it must cos a lot to be buried there cos the land is right smack in town centre/ tourist area). strangely enough the graves of the famous people were plain marble/ granite slabs when various others were amazingly elaborate

i would freak out if i saw this at night..

going traveling in a group of photographers would be amazing i think (esp if i had a dslr).. we stopped for something like 10 min to take photos of bright purple berries after we came out from the cemetery - mine didn't turn out as well as glen's (duh.) and then stopped for about 20 min taking pictures of a cute kid and waiting for some of the gals to use the bathroom.

Day 4
woke up not-so-early but i had spent the night talking to jem instead of sleeping after we played citadels. bah. so slept at 3ish and didn't get enough sleep. we took the metro back to notre dam to get ice-cream (for breakfast!). again i wished for better reflexes... i took pics of trains 7 times and this was the best one -.-". spotted a random grave on a wall... and got our ice-creams... which were really worth going back for *drool*

then it was off to the Louvre for many hours and many famous exhibits

exhibit A: charity trying to be a statueexhibit B: jeremy trying to be egyptiantourist failure #02. famous painting on loan... after we walked halfway around to get to the room 'it was in'
veggie man

then it was rush rush rush to Champs Elysees to get our souvenir macroons for people back home... and we alighted at this really dodgy station with a crooked sign =S. then rush rush rush back to hostel and grabbed dinner at a cheap jap place nearby... the food was amazing for the price... fresh slices of sashimi to end the paris experience (aside from the uneventful train ride home). man i hope there's jap food in heaven... escargot too...