Oh, Beautiful, Wonderful, Fantastic PARIS

Finally!! We made it to the dream land. Its the first day and here Nat, Rita, Molly, Kaitlin and I are just turning the corner and then whoa! There, unexpectedly, it is! The massive, but so gentle, beautiful, symbol of the place we've always longed for, THE EIFFEL TOWER!!


We giggled, skipped, and photographed to and all around the tower in reassurance we were finally there!

Then so innocently we are trying to ride the elevator up to the top when all the sexy, french police officers push us out of the limits of the Eiffel Tower. They knew this love was too unnatural but they told everyone it was a "bomb threat."

But undefeated we were; There were so many other great Parisian symbols we had to tackle our first night.

We went to the Arc de Triomphe and climbed up to the 250 something stairs to the best view in Paris. All of the lit up streets of the city lead to the circle surrounding the Arc; surrounding us. The sparkling city was surrounding us and of course the wonderful view of the glowing Eiffel Tower at night. Here we all called our mom's and teared up out of happiness and thankfulness that we were finally here!!!

We love being tourists, so we couldn't stop there.
We then strolled down the "Ooooh, Chaaammppss Elyseeesss!" to fill up on some crepes.

And just saying, it's no big deal or anything but the waiter told me "You speak very good french."

OOOhhh Yeeaaahhh! Dream Day!!

The rest of the week was full of endless greatness and of course fashion!

We visited all of these wonderful places I never though would be possible at this point in my life.

Our class visited Premier Vision; the world's largest fabric trade show. It was absolutely massive and full of the most outstanding selection of fabrics, trims, and trend forecasting.

We the met the most talented, kind Madame Picot. One of only five women in the world who knows how to create the tedious, beautiful, unique pleating done in the dresses to the left. She is between us.

She gave a wonderful history of the inventor of the technique; Madame Gres. Madame Picot worked for her and learned this fantastic technique and gave a demo to our class. I was very fortunate to put on one of Madame Picot's amazing designs of silk jersey!

We visited endless wonderful shops and fashion forward places while being surrounded by the well-dressed Parisians too.

We also visited Versailles which is alone always wonderful but there was also an exhibit throughout the castle from the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. He made all these cute, fun, and fantastic manga sculptures that were placed throughout.

From the Louvre to the Parisian gay clubs we did just about everything. Oooh, what a fantastic week of my life long dream of finally going to Paris.

Paris, je t'aime!!