"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." - Ernest Hemingway

Paris by the Numbers...

4 – days we spent in Paris this weekend

10.5 – the time of night when the sun sets in Paris

8 – crepes we ate in four days

5 – electric cars that John was excited about

52 – percent of the Tiramisu that John was supposed to eat, this was after trying to sneak an extra 2 percent

1.5 – litres of water we drank at a time to avoid heat stroke

1000 – people waiting in line to get in Notre Dame

3 – people that asked if we would take a picture of them, so we got one of us

26 – day of May with beautiful flowers

1 million – times we smelled urine walking down the street

5 – fingers on John’s head when expressing how he feels about moving to Europe :)

6 – times we took this picture because the angle was weird

50 – meters is the height of the Arc de Triomphe

29 – euros for our three course dinner we loved as we ate outside

2 – thumbs up for Paris at night

7 – funny pictures I made John take this weekend

14, 15, 16 – Louis that lived in the Palace of Versailles

210,000 – flowers planted annually in the Versailles gardens

 

80 – kilometers of D-day beaches

600 - tons of bombs dropped on this area by the Allies

30 - minutes the American soldiers had to climb from the shore to the top of the cliffs 

1945 - year on my new imaginary Marshall College sweatshirt we bought since it was cold in Normandy

1985 - year on John's new sweatshirt 

9,387 - American soldiers buried in the American cemetery in Normandy, and this did not include everyone who died since the soldiers' families could decide whether to bury them in Normandy or the US

51 - Directive that Hitler ordered to build the Atlantic Wall. which stretched from Belgium to Spain. The Germans had the entire wall fortified with pill boxes, artillery, machine gun positions and barbed wire as well as laying hundreds of thousands of mines to deter landing craft. 

1000 - hours John has spent watching The History Channel which made him extra excited to tour the beaches

15 - kilometers of the Mulberry B temporary harbor built in Arromanches by the Allies

608 - D-day landing craft that John posed with

81 - stories of the Eiffel Tower

1 - guy who told me I was beautiful while John was in the bathroom and I was taking this picture

5,000 - times we almost died crossing the street

3 - approximate number of cars that run the red light... every time

10 - police cars we saw driving around the Eiffel Tower at night

1 - illegal peddler we saw get arrested

15 - minutes per hour when the Eiffel Tower sparkles at night, even though we missed it this time

50 - euros EasyJet was going to charge me to check my bag since it didn't "comfortably" fit in the carry-on size checker

0 - amount I paid to check my bag since I snuck on the plane with it anyway hehe

1 - number of stars of our hotel which is the best deal in Paris since it's right in the center and serves breakfast

2 – my legs that apparently get heat rash now

100 - on a scale of 1 to 100, how much I love John and pictures of us with the Eiffel Tower