SNOW

Champs Elysees. This is where the fancy people hang out.

With their fancy bikes.

The trees on this street lost all their leaves because they are not as fancy as the ones on Champs Elysees.

Luxury trash.

Luxury hot pants. Perfect for the -2 degree weather we've been having. Karl Lagerfeld is a genius.

They have rental bikes everywhere but I haven't rented one yet because you have to buy some kind of subscription and I already subscribed to an unlimited movie theater pass so I don't want to over-extend myself.

Dior for children has its own valet to park the toy Barbie Jeeps for the kids who shop there.

Louis Vuitton.

I saw a real French bulldog the other day on my way to school; it was adorable. Another day I saw a fox. Or it could have been an enormous orange cat but I'm pretty sure it was a fox. I work in the middle of nowhere.

Everything is gray or beige.

Egg and teeth candy. Super appetizing. Yesterday a teacher asked me how to say "bon appetit" in English. I was like honestly we don't really say that because we don't need to be wished "good appetite" because we already have awesome appetites in the US. But if we did want to wish someone good luck with their bacon double cheeseburger and 64 ounce milkshake, we would just say "bon appetit," like you.

First attempt at the Statue of Liberty's flame. Not enough liberty for the US.

I'm glad Nick came back to correct this so now I know he's available.

This thing is everywhere.

I bought a 24 pack of bright pink toilet paper because it was the only color they had at the grocery store. Both my roommates are guys and one was so pissed that he moved out. Actually I don't know why he moved out. I didn't even notice he moved out until 3 days later when the other guy told me.

See you never.

French boyscouts. The inventors of backpacking through Europe.

Miaou Miaou.

Back of Palais de Tokyo/Museum of Modern Art.

It's a sweet skate spot.

With a view of the Eiffel Tower and a swimming pool.

I really wanted to go see the Basquiat exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art but the line was down the block and it was freezing and there was only one person outside the Palais de Tokyo and she didn't look like she was in line so I just went there instead.

Palais guard.

Remnants of an outdoor market, the only place that will sell you food on a Sunday.

Someone wrote me a note in the bathroom!

Ok here is documentation of the Palais de Tokyo. My limited computer skills do not allow me to rearrange my pictures once I upload them.

Best piece!

Too busy pleasing himself to finish this painting before it was due.

Study of mescaline. These prints were pretty cool.

I am still reading that stupid Halloween book to the 2nd graders and every time we get to the part with the spider they are like "Ohhhh sPEE-der, like sPEE-der MAN!" And I say "Yes, exactly like sPEE-der man." And then I try to help them pronounce spider better but it is impossible because they are pretending to shoot sPEE-der webs out of their wrists and are not paying attention at all anymore.

I would totally wear this as a brooch.

Whoever thought of putting googley eyes on this tapestry is a genius.

Also for coming up with this amazing name for it:

Gun enthusiasts are even more threatening when wielding sausages.

Back in fancy land.

Santa is holding his ski poles upside down.

Paris really goes all out for Christmas. That Santa was part of a roller coaster. These bears are part of an outdoor bar. There is a Christmas market set up all along the Champs Elysees. It is like Saturday Market but with less weed, tie dye, and crafts and more chocolate, chestnuts, and wine.

90% of the trees in France get Christmas lights.

A CAMPER!

Taking pictures of people taking pictures.

There is no escaping Christmas.

The Eiffel Tower gets all sparkly once an hour for a few minutes. I tried to take a picture of it but it wouldn't stop moving.

Ok this one is slightly better.

It snowed!

Best thing I saw on my way to work this week.

I hope it doesn't ever snow so much that the trains get messed up. Last week they were only running half the trains because they claimed that there was bad weather in the beginning of the month (it rained for 2 days) and they had to keep a lot of the trains home in the train barn to help them recover. Every time I read that message I felt like I was being lied to.

SNOW.