France and Belgium 2005

Here are the pictures of my recent trip. Here's a quick rundown of what we did.

12/22 - Left L.A.
12/23 - Arrived in Paris and then slept
12/24 - Went to the Cluny Museum
12/25 - Christmas; went to church with my family and saw all the people I went snowboarding with last year
12/26 - My mom's birthday; saw Chronicles of Narnia again with my family (w/ French subtitles)
12/27 - Joyce arrived; really cold that day; went to the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame
12/28 - d'Orsay Museum; catacombs of Paris; Montmarte and Sacre Coure
12/29 - went to Brugge, Belgium; stopped for lunch in Lille
12/30 - ate a Belgian waffle; saw lots of chocolate and lace; climbed the Brugge clock tower
12/31 - went to a 200 year old zoo and natural history museum; celebrated 5 months with Joyce (that's going to be a tough one to top); rang in the new year at the Eiffel Tower
1/1 - tired; went to church with my family; went to the Pompideu
1/2 - went shopping with my parents; saw a restaurant that Benjamin Franklin ate at; saw a chocolate store that was 200 years old; saw King Kong (w/ French subtitles)
1/3 - went to the Rodin and Monet museums
1/4 - endured the long trip home

A cool random fact I learned this trip was that the term "gargoyle" actually means gurgle in French. Gargoyles not only were used to scare away evil spirits, but were also the means of which the water drained from the roof, thus the name.

I also learned how to say "watch the candle" in French which isn't very useful, but really fun to say especially in a menacing tone.