Updates and Paris

Sorry it took so long, we still don't have internet at our apartment, so I'm using the wifi from our campus. It is currently the second week of classes, and so far I like all of my classes a lot. I also just finished applying for all my summer research positions, 5 in total, so hopefully I get accepted to at least one. If not, I'll probably end up stuck in Tucson doing research there. School hasn't really achieved its full momentum, so it feels a little slow right now which is giving me time to relax a little bit. We're planning some group trips this semester, and so it looks like I might be going on a trip to Norway in May and Barcelona in March. Time for some pictures of my favorite city:

This is the French Pantheon. It's much bigger than the Roman one.

We spent a day at the Louvre, which is famous for having the Mona Lisa as well as the Venus De Milo. We missed the Venus, and the Mona Lisa was so packed that we couldn't get a good view.

This is just a cool picture at night.

Of course, we visited the Eiffel tower. It's much bigger that I thought it would be. We came back on New Years, but they had the whole area roped off so that nobody could get near the tower. Every half hour or so the eiffel tower has a light show which is pretty fun to watch.

This is Todd and in the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. Unfortunately for us, we came in winter so all the trees were dead.

This is us in front of the Arc de Triumph

This is an example of a translation blunder. I'm assuming skinned is being used as a replacement for peeled.
This is the eiffel tower on New Years

And this is the famous Notre Dame, but from the back since I liked the back of it better

Paris was a lot of fun, and there was always so much to do and see. The people were also extremely nice, which is contrary to the stereotype a lot of Americans have of French people. Our next stop after France was London and Amsterdam, so I'll post some pictures of that soon, too.