Ahhh...

My room is finally organized... I'm usually pretty good about keeping common areas mostly spotless, especially the kitchen, but there is always clutter that gets stacked up in my room somehow, whether in Lehi, UT or Paris, France. I can't stand it- it drives me nuts! Every day I tell myself that I'm going to get certain things done when I get home from work, but often by time I get home I'm usually so tired that I kinda just crash and spend the entire time on the phone/internet and then go to sleep late and then get up early and start it all over again. I've been wanting to get this done all week. I know I've already been here for a month, but when I first got in the apartment, I'd only half settled in. I'd tidy up my room a bit, things would stack up again, and then I'd half tidy it up again. Well, now, it's done for good. Haha, I'm using a Carrefour "En agissant ensemble, on agit vraiment." bag for my laundry basket. It was 60 euro cents. Pretty expensive for a grocery bag, but not bad for a laundry basket.

I love that "I'm mostly on top of things..." feeling. Quite honestly, I haven't felt it near as much as I ought to have in my life. Maybe, I'll get my papers for this internship done before the first day of school... then I can experience the oh-so-coveted "I'm completely on top of things!" feeling.

Enough about how great I feel :) Let's get on to some pictures, shall we?

These are all from the trip to Versailles last Saturday with the Meiers. This first picture is their family in the Hall of Mirrors in the castle. The next one of is of me in that same hall. I thought that it was gorgeous, but I was kind of surprised when I saw the "mirrors." They were more like shiny metal than mirrors. They were about as reflective as my cell phone screen when it's off. You know, the thing that impressed me the most about this castle was the ceilings. Every room we went into had ceilings more grand than the last. You can get a little taste of it in this picture.

If I had to sum up in one picture what France means to me, I might put one like this, with the trees on either side of a road. Maybe not on this trip, though, since I've been living off of the metro. But usually trips to France involve long car rides on roads that look like this. (p.s. this is more of a walking path than a road anyway. it was in the gardens between the Chateau de Versailles and Mary Antoinette's vacation home thingamajig)

A quick picture of the Chateau de Versailles. This is from the same side as the parking lot. The more famous view is from the other side, with the gardens. This castle is really big. I've actually got a bunch chopped off the picture on both sides.