Kind of A Day in the Life . . . or random snapshots from today

I whipped out my camera all day long and snapped LOTS of random photos of things that I see everyday, and love, and want to share with you fam (and others of course.)

The day started out with a protest. It was something about the government closing down 235 businesses within the last year. That's a problem.

A patisserie. They're lovely, and usually very occupied.

Such delicacies.

We went into this interesting little art exhibit about this guy who does posters in this cartoonish form. The 2 euro entrance fee felt more like a donation to the support of the arts as opposed to being worth what we actually saw, but that's fine with me.

This building was built by an archbishop because . . . he wanted to, I believe. It houses the library in Marais, as well as the little exhibition from above.

There were about 10 bikes chained to this fence. There are LOADS of people who ride bikes in the city. It's great. I haven't rented a bike yet, but that day is coming.

This was a school (lycee is the word for high school) and there were lots of cooly-cool kids sitting around. Some other kids were running around for PE in this old courtyard, it was very strange actually.

There are florist's shoppes ALL over, I love it. The shoppes are tiny so they're always spilling onto the sidewalk and the smell is so luscious. Je l'adore!

I loved the flowers they made with chocolate on the left. They're a little chocolate cup with the huge chocolate flower on top, I'll have to pick one up for more detailed photos.

Okay, last patisserie picture. And there are really two reasons for this many, a) they're everywhere and b) they're lovely n'est-ce pas?

I was at the park for a couple hours just sitting and chatting with another girl in the program. It was lots of fun to sit and observe for that long; there were people coming and going of course, but there were also lots of people who stuck around longer than we did. And then this little boy came along with his little baby trench and I had to catch it because it was just too great to pass on.

And this is the metro. Kind of boring considering I sit there a couple of hours a day, but I've come to consider the metro an essential part of the city and why some Parisiens are the way they are.