"A rose by any other name." -Juliet Capulet

Visited the Chartres cathedral today (one hour train ride away). So beautiful. It was cool, but sunny. We had the funniest tour guide. An old British man who told us he finds blogs where people talk about him, and the most common complaint is that he slurps on cough drops during the tour. He said he wouldn't do that today for our sakes. The stained-glass windows in Chartes cathedral depict biblical stories from the Fall of Adam through the Last Judgement. He would talk forever and ever about each window (which I found really interesting and really boring at the same time), in great detail and he would point to individuals in our group and say "nope. you're looking at the wrong window dear." He was very shaky and would use his laser pointer to show us things around the cathedral. At one point he wasn't paying attention and his pointer was wandering over some woman's body. He noticed and he was like "Oh dear dear. I certainly hope she didn't realize what was happening there. A molesting laser." All in all it was beautiful. Made me want to watch Ever After. 

Emily, Rachel and I wandered around the town after the tour. We found a little gelato stand and were testing flavors. There was a pink flavor called "Barbe À Papa." All three of us tried it and were raving about it. The lady behind the stand didn't speak english so she couldn't tell us what the flavor was in English. But we all kept saying: "This is so familiar and exotic. It's such an interesting flavor. I just can't decide where it is that I've tasted this before. Maybe in a dream or something. They don't have anything like this in the states. It tastes so fancy and mysterious. What is it?!" Emily ended up getting that flavor, and as we were walking away I was like "Let me try that one last time and see if I can figure it out." Sho 'nuff........Cotton Candy.

Stunning.

These guys.

I will simply deny you the crown, and live...forever.

Heather, a photography major, too my camera and pushed a bunch of buttons before taking this. Apparently I have a lot of cool things to learn about that big nikon of mine.

Emily's reaction when I realized her fancy french ice cream was cotton candy flavored. 

The French presidential elections are happening this Sunday! Will Sarko win re-election or will the nearly communist Francois Hollande take the throne?