Paris (Part 1)

I went to Paris last week and there was so much to do. So I will use two posts.

Here I am in front of Notre Dame. It is so beautiful on the inside. There were these huge elaborate stained glass windows and there was such incredible paintings inside.


This is at the top of the Eiffel Tower and it was so scary. It felt like the elevator was going up forever. This boy in front of me got scared because I was so scared.


Obviously, I am the Eiffel Tower in this pic. I went all the way to the top and it was so scary. It felt like the elevator was going up forever. This boy in front of me got scared because I was so scared.


Versailles: Just the house alone is 17 acres. And the total property is 37,000 acres. It was so incredible to see paintings or sculptures that I had studied in my Humanities class but was sure that I would never see in real life.


Garden of Versailles. So pretty. I brought my book, found a quite part of the gardens and layed in the sun (since the sun has been so rare this summer) reading for a little bit.

Paris (Part 2)

In front of the Louvre. I was there for 4 hours and I barely saw half of it.


I am a muse...


The famous Mona Lisa, which is rather quite small.


I look so classy in my beret. Now that I have one I think I will read poetry while snapping my fingers in a coffee shop with other people as classy as me.


From this church you could see the whole city of Paris. I think it's funny because there was a sign that said "to respect the sacredness of the church please no pictures" but then they had those coin machines that Disneyland has where it smashes a coin into a cool shape. So as I was walking through it sounded like I was walking by slot machines.

1-meter pizza

Yesterday my friends and I ate a 1-meter pizza...ummm. It was so delicious. The waitress gave us plates and silverware while we were waiting for our pizza, but I think that was just to use up time because they were taking forever to make the pizza. When the pizza came we were all so ravenous that we just grabbed pizzas with our hands. The waitress barely had time to get out of the way. It was a really good pizza.


Afterwards we went to the park that was next to the restaurant. It wasn't technically a big kid playground but big kids were playing on it so it was a big kids playground last night. This is me and my cousin on this bridge thing that moved so much. We spent like 20 min just playing on that bridge.


This swing thing was amazing. it was a seat that was hanging from a line and you sit on it and slind down the line. Finally my friends dragged me away from it. I think I could have played on it all night long.

Beer, trains and the temple

Ok so there was a beer festival the other day and what better place to wear a dirndl? And I wanted to get a cup but it was 3.50 euros to buy a cup or you can get a drink and a cup for 4 euros and who can pass up a deal like that. Although the look the lady gave me when I asked for just a coke was hilarious. Also, I was one of four people at the festival wearing a dirndl (the other 3 were waitresses). The wonderful thing about that is I am in Berlin and people really don't care if you act crazy here. There are such weird people in Berlin that I fit right in

You can't really see what this picture is but I am sitting on the front of a train. Me and some friends went to the museum of technology last week. We realized when we got there that it was a kids museum so we found our inner kid and had a blast.

Finally we got to play with this machine, after this 5 yr old was hogging it for so long. So this is what mine and Frankenstein's kids would look like. I know...we would have really attractive kids.

When I first unpacked in June, I noticed that I had accidentally packed 2 boy family names. Luckily my ward had a temple trip today so I went to the Freiberg Temple and it is beautiful. It is surprisingly small. But it was a nice day and Freiberg is a beautiful city. Here is a pic of me with the nearly finished temple names and the temple in the background.

Every princess needs a castle

Last week I went to Munich Zurich and Heidelberg and while I was there I decided to look at some real estate (in case I decide to live here permanently). And I am torn between a few places.


Zurich: The first one is a very nice looking castle but it is a little small for my taste. If I lived there, I don't know if there would be enough space for all my servants.


Munich: This one is my second choice because it is the most beautiful and has a wonderful view. It also overlooks a huge man-made waterfall. However, it needs some interior design work done and not all of the rooms are finished.



Heidelberg: This next place is pretty and has a nice location near a river but it is a little bit of a fixer-upper.


Munich: And this last one is my number one choice. It is the largest of the castles and has a beautiful backyard (I don't know if it could be considered a backyard because it is like 50 acres). But the thing that puts this in first place is the fact that the prince lives there. Considering I'm a princess, we are a perfect match.


And lastly what German experience would be complete without a dirndl? I got this one while I was in Munich and I love it. It is pink, I can't breathe when I wear it and I look fantastic in it...basically it is perfect.

Address

I will be here for another 2 months so if anyone wants to send me mail, here is my address:

Melissa Thompson
C/O Thaben
Crellestr. 26
Deutschland 10827 Berlin

The Beach!

I went to the Baltic Sea this weekend and it was incredible. It was pretty warm (mid-80’s) and I got a much needed tan. The town we went to was a rather small town about 3 hours away from Berlin. When we got off the bus, they told us that we would have a few hours to look at the sights of the town (aka. a church and a lighthouse) and then we could have a little time to go to the beach. Seeing the church and the lighthouse took about 30 minutes so we spent the next 7 hours on the beach. It was a perfect day. Below is a picture of me on the lighthouse. It was pretty cool because I had never actually been in a lighthouse. Surprisingly I was not afraid of how high this lighthouse was either.


And the beach was beautiful. The sand was white and the water was clear. Clearly I am overjoyed with being on the beach again.