Cheers and Bonjour!

My lovely, faithful blog readers! THANK YOU for being so patient! We have seriously been running like crazy ever since my last post and I have just got to catch you guys up! So, I've got another city and another country to add to my travel adventures. A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to have a weekend of free travel (which is pretty rare since we're a shorter study abroad program). So me and seven other girls in my program decided to do a trip to Scotland! Whoot! We had an absolute blast and didn't get totally lost! We spent the first and part of the last day of our trip in Glasgow, and the rest of our trip in Edinburgh. It was absolutely amazing! The town was SO cute and we tried to navigate as much as you could on foot, and just had an absolute blast! Below are a few photo highlights of our trip!! 

Our group outside of Edinburgh Castle

The Cafe where J.K Rowling began the magic of Harry Potter 

Kelvingrove Art Museum in Glasgow (total win!)

The adorable town of edinburgh 

Everything, everywhere you go looks important!

Up by Arthurs seat in Edinburgh (BEAUTIFUL view!)

Edinburgh Castle

Next, we came back to London for a few days and then it was off to Paris, France. Now let me tell you, our directors told us that our days were going to be packed, but they were NOT messing around. I have never before thought to myself "I think my feet are bleeding"...but I did...twice on this trip. But no one fret! No bleeding feet here...just awfully sore ones! We averaged about 10-12 miles per day and just had the most amazing time! In the time we were in France-Wednesday morning to Saturday night-we did the following:

• Sainte Chapelle
• Notre Dame
• LOTS of delicious crepes, macaroons, gelato, and french pastries 
• Lourve (twice) 
• Eiffel Tower in the day 
• Eiffel Tower at night 
• Cluny 
• Musee D'Orsay 
• Versailles Palace 
• Chartes Cathedral 
• Romping the streets of Paris in the pouring rain because we had no idea where we were! 

Holy Hannah right?! My gosh. We did SO much and my whole body hurt so bad by the time we were done! But it was absolutely amazing. The people there get a rep for being super rude, but we found that all the people we encountered were wonderfully friendly and cheerful. Particularly the gentlemen in the little bakery where we got macaroons and pastries and an adorable couple atop the Eiffel tower. It was however a little strange and at times difficult to be in a place where not everyone speaks English, but we managed to get by okay :) Once more, here's a few photo highlights from our trip! 

The inside of Sainte Chappelle. Which was absolutely BREATHTAKING. Literally had to keep my jaw from dropping to the ground. 

Notre Dame 

Love Lock Bridge! 

Paris in the rain! 

The Lourve!! :) 

Our favorite place to get Crepes! 

There she is! In all her beauty! 

The view from the top

Versailles Gardens!

Chartes Cathedral from the front

Chartes Cathedral from the back! 

If you look REALLLLLY hard, you might be able to make us out, but a nice lady from Paris took our photo in the middle of the night at the Eiffel Tower :) 

Last Day :( 

It's not Paris without some French Pastries right?!

Well! We've had some adventures since being back in London, but I'll put those in another post so as to not bore you all to death! Thanks for reading about all my adventures! It's been a lot of fun to share them with you all! Much love <3

Ello Poppet!

My faithful blog readers,

Are you so impressed with how quickly this blog post is going up? I hope so! I guess it's just a lot easier with a lot of really exciting things going on! Anyhow. Our week has been absolutely packed. We are up to so much every day, and the amount of things we have to do is almost overwhelming. I feel like I could come to London alone a hundred times and still have more things to do and explore. Class is going well,  I feel almost overwhelmed with how much I am learning and have yet to learn. We've gone headfirst into art history, basic civilization and touched on basic English history/current politics. I'm absolutely loving it! I never thought I would be interested in some of this stuff but our teachers are just SO excited about the subjects they teach and they make it really easy to get excited about all of these subjects.

Among the exciting things we have done recently...

1. Big Ben and the National Gallery
We got to go and visit the National Gallery and see some really amazing works of art! From all the periods from the Renaissance to Baroque to Rococo and 19th century etc. There were even a few original Monet paintings there that were on loan from a museum in France. Then we got to go and walk down Whitehall road and see the houses of parliament and Big Ben, and afterwards we went and rode the London Eye (a big big ferris wheel). The view was AMAZING!!! Pictures below!

Some examples of artwork we looked at

The archway that leads to Buckingham Palace! 

Right outside of Trafalgar Square, one of the hubs of the city with tons of street performers and musicians, chalk artists and the like. 

Big Ben! :) (and the houses of Parliament) 

Some pictures from the London Eye

Small cameo of Big Ben 

My study abroad girls Karie and Kaity! 

2. Tower of London and London Bridge 

SO much history! Especially about the Tudors, which is a weird obsession of mine. So I totally loved that! We spent most of the day there taking tours, and learning a ton. Then we stopped quickly to take some pictures with Tower bridge (London Bridge is in Arizona). Then it started to rain and hail, so we went inside! 

London Bridge 

Julius Ceasar 

The Tower from the sidewalk!

The death place of Henry the 8th! 

White Tower 

Just a girl abroad and her friends! 

3. Last but not least....brunch and BROADWAY! 

We went and got some discounted tickets to Wicked Saturday morning and then had brunch afterwards. Pretty much....the best day ever! 

Our adorable Brunch! 

BROADWAY! Life seriously doesn't get better! 

Bonus pictures for paying attention so long! The Sunday flower market on our way to church..and my life in a meme. 

Love you all! Until next time <3