Paris France: day 2!
So the wifi is so bizarre in this hotel and will not let me post from an app that I've been using...of course it could just be the app but I'm blaming the hotel, haha. Today? It was spectacular. We began at one of the most famous places in Paris, Place de la Concorde. It is a large plaza at the end of the Champs Élysées with the National Assembly building at one end and a huge Egyptian obelisk in the middle. Its so wonderful and significant, as it was instrumental in the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI and countless other people, enough to make the Parisians literally wade through ankle deep blood. Such a fascinating time in their history and seeing and standing in the place where it all happens makes it so much more real. I've studied so much about that time period, read so many accounts and so much research, but until you stand there and look around, imagining what it would have been like in 1794, staring at a guillotine with a real person marching toward
