Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Paris Trip 2012

  • There is really cool graffiti in Paris

    I am on my way back home to Sandy, sitting in the Philadelphia airport. I had such a fantastic time. One of the highlights of my life. A trip I will remember for the rest of my life. Now I need to go back because there is so much that I missed! I will post…

  • Today was all about famous paintings

    Our original plan was to go to Versailles today be we nixed that idea to, instead, go back to the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay. It was a hard decision but we really felt like we needed to take in more of the museum Mecca. We had a guide book with us that had a…

  • Eiffel Tower

    Continuing the b&w Hipstamtic theme I’ve got going on: here is a photo of the Eiffel Tower. Today we went to the very tippy top of the Eiffel Tower. I was really worried that my fear of heights would prevent me from this but I was totally fine. It wasn’t scary at all. We took…

  • Gargoyle on top of Nortre Dame

    Today was filled with all sorts of adventures! It started out terribly though. I woke in the middle of the night with a migraine and no ibuprofen. Raf went out at 3 am to find a pharmacy open but no such luck. I had to suffer through it all night. I think it was the…

  • The Louvre

    People resting on the lawn of the Louvre. We landed in Paris at around 7:00 this morning. I tried to sleep on both flights with not much luck. So when we finally made our way out of the airport and to our hotel I thought, “hmm. Maybe I will try tricking my body into thinking…