La Nuit Blanche ~ Le 2 Octobre

October 2nd was an all day affaire that started with the shortest visit to the Louvre ever known to man. Allegra, Kelsey, Erin and I were in the museum approximately one hour, which is enough time to see:

The Mona Lisa without a mosh pit in front

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Greek Sculptures

(These are the three fates. I loved this sculpture.)

Some random, yet famous, paintings that would make Sankara's heart melt

to visit the starbucks inside

(My obsession with starbucks has officially commenced. My poor wallet.)

and to see the pyramids on the outside?

Needless to say, there are many other Louvre visits in my future.

After museuming it up, we had to eat. Clearly, I am becoming French. All I can think about is food, wine and art as is the French way of life, so the girls and I headed off to the Latin Quater for another delicious Italian meal and some not so delicious cocktails at a piano bar. As you can tell from the pictures below, we LOVED our drinks. Prices and Music were great, but the drinks were terrifying. The best part was definitely the singing. The french love to make up words that are similar to english words when they forget lyrics. Its HILARIOUS and makes absolutely no sense at all. ahh...language barriers how I love you!

(Our live performer at the Piano Bar.)

(I can always count on Erin's facial expressions to describe the moment.)

(Jackie met up with us for one delicious dinner one great bottle of wine. She has officially got me hooked on Bordeaux.)

La Nuit Blanche (the white night) is when the city of Paris is awake the entire night. The metros run until 3 in the morning and then start running again at 5am because there are light shows and musuem exhibitions that are open until 7am in the morning. I was expecting more of a fête (party) than the night that I had, but non-the-less, I got to see some very pretty lights? The french love lighting up their monuments and creating an ambiance with techno music.

Exibit A: Notre Dame, but I preferred the flame thrower in the Notre Dame courtyard!

Exhibit B: A light show along the Seine. Basically, a few boxes with lights.

(Isn't Paris just BEAUTIFUL?!)

Exhibit C: This word.

Exhibit D: L'hotel de Ville

(This was actually insanely cool. All the lights on the town hall said, "Love the Differences" in every single language. Also, there were girls in silver spandex with silver wigs handing out glow in the dark buttons. Très awesome.)

Finally, after viewing a short film about the making of Medea I decided it was time to catch the metro home. After all, I wanted to do something amazing that sunday...