PARIS!!!!!!!!!!

Peace momument that an american designed it was pretty cool.

Yah here is two famous mater pieces me and the mona lisa i dunno who is better its you call.
Musee du luvre yah get the pass because one day isnt long enough to stay in there and its good for a year so talk jerry into getting it for you (next group)
My family came to visit wow that was so much fun then Jerry invited us all to dinner at his house and we met olgas parents and everyone stood around the baby admiring the cute kid. Danny is awesome and will lead a promising life learning russain, french and english. Just for starters. But then jerry asked them to join us for mass at notre dame on sunday and that was awesome so they got to come there to i got to see them alot Jerry was very nice in negtionating the scedule so i could be with my family because they came for three nights.

The sister and myself standing in front of the tower.
Yah this is awesome its so pretty when it is lit up.

Paris first night

Picture is from underneath the tower with a cool feature on my camera. (I am meeting my mom sister and leann here tomorrow i havnt seen them in 2 months)

Awe its the group shot that every group will do so julie can keep a nice record of us.
It flashes every hour its pretty cool
Regular shot in the day time.

Random blog

Today is Teddys birthday the baby in the group turning 19 today and we still beat him in monopoly. Tomorrow we are going to the University of Abli where we meet a class of french students studying english. 18 girls no guys boy i wish i had that class in loretto. 7 Days till PARIS stoked about that. Another good thing about France besides being able to drink is losing weight i feel i eat more here but i lost 10 pds and its good healthy food. My mom sister and sisters friend are meeting me in paris so i get to see them very soon. This is my in a mine that was redone so we could walk through and view its history.(I think green is my color)
Toulouse down a street its a nice city.
Low flying plane that lindsay made fun of me because i took a picture of it.
A church in Toulouse it was very very nice and the wood work is insane.
In the middle you will see another picture of our house its pretty awesome except when you bike and have to come back up the hill from the other side.

Theres big jim standing infront of the worldest largest brick structure in a town about 2o minutes where i am from were a pint of heineken is 5.80 euro

castle in the sky

Yes that is a castle on that mountain and it took 15 minutes not stop to climb to it view was priceless though.
Eric and I at the first castle of the day explaining how the archers had one hole but 3 men in each hole.
Short rest break while driving and the town down below.
A view from the castle in the sky we were a stones throw away from a helicopter that was video taping the castle so hopefuly we will be on tv or a documentary at some point.

Stain glass windows inside of one of the churches.

john shot a 6 pack-and notre dame or sister church who helped out our college over here

We went to a festival and john decided it would be alot of fun to shoot a gun at a booth. In france they use real guns. John did very well with the rifle and won a small pellet handgun. Next he took his hand at a double barrelled shot gun and accidently shot her 6 pack of beer that was laying on the floor underneath her jacket and was oozing beer on the side. He felt bad and gave her money for the beer he just shot gunned and we laughed for about 30 minutes then again on the way home when we told tim. This is the inside of Notre Dame our sister church. It only a small church till they added on the big octagon section in this picture. We got to climb to the bell tower and play the bells Jerry yet again surpised us with the never ending list of things he can do.
That is a snakes skin from brazil and along with many of different animals brought back from brazil.
The room was filled and i want one of those for my house.
Treasures $$$$$$$$$

Conques

Eric is a really interesting teacher i wanted to buy this tipinain* not sure the spelling exactly but they are scenes on a church that tell us a story. This scene is the judgement day where God seperates the good from the evil. I bought a part of it bc the one i wanted was alot of money and kinda difficult to ship back home.

Lunch was good the french like olives on everything esp pizza so me and teddy split a pizza and salad special and it was good i just picked off the olives.


Monday morning we had to be ready early because tim went to abli to pick up eric bc we had another pligrimage that day this time to conques. I get the felling people just got tired of walking and said this is where we build a church bc they are always on a side of a hill and its very rough terrain.

first pilgrimage

Thursday afternoon one of our art history teacher came in to teach us about the two church we are heading to on friday. We had to be up and on the road at 8am . Anyways we went into town with eric because they had a sound and light show. The only sound i heard was how the prye which we live is is now lived in by college students who are from PA. The rest was mostly history of the town it was very pretty since they turned off all the lights in town and used controls to turn on the bridge the church and the other buildings. So we walked back up the hill to out home and it was about 1230ish when we got into beds. I woke up and got into the car and on our way there eric was still telling us how these churches were built and everything and i was really excited.

The second church was amazing this organ was the biggest and most unique one i have ever seen before.

After a long day we were all tired so we got back ate and pretty much just all fell asleep . Saturday we went kayaking and then later that night we went down to Nadeines were i got some Heikens that i was excited to order on my own. Today we got up and went to church and now we are just laying around writing our blogs.