L'ASSEMBLÉ NATIONALE

An especially rainy Saturday to wrap up an especially rainy week.  However, this weekend many normally-closed monuments of Paris are open for tours (because it's the jounées du patrimoine) so several BC students and I headed over to the Assemblé Nationale (the french equivalent of Congress).  The line was long, and the weather was gross, but the building was worth it.  The library especially!

Braving the weather to witness some french history

 A life-sized, tapestry version of the School of Athens

The ballroom (or at least one of) complete with string quartet (sadly all my pictures in here turned out blurry and strangely red, so this is the best I have)

 One of the many many beautiful chandeliers

 And a pretty glass ceiling

 The ceiling under which the magic (the voting) happens

Shout-out to Caroline's 17th birthday!

 High-level note-passing

The library!  

Somewhere in here, if you had lots of time, and no security guards, you could find the minutes from Joan of Arc's trial.

Magic.

The crew

Embracing my inner tourist.  If you're wondering why the tomato-colored face it's mostly because even this slightly-off attempt required holding a wall-sit-like pose on a ledge for at least three minutes, which is harder than it sounds after 3.5 weeks of baguettes and no exercise.. 

Salut! (Salut is the french Aloha)