Scotland Adventures: Spring Break Adventures: First stop, Paris!

The next 8 days finds me needing to write three 2,000 word essays, memorize a piece on my bagpipe chanter and take a final exam. I have TONS to do before I come home, and I am coming home 2 weeks from yesterday! My blog entries will be my breaks from paper-writing. Here is the first one. :) First stop of Spring break travels was Paris. Lizzie and I had an amazing time. We kept a killer awesome budget when we were there-- don't know if it is possible to spend 5.5 days in Paris for less money than we spent. We still saw TONS of stuff-- and were totally content living off delicious French baguettes and pasteries (ok yes, I am exaggerating a bit... we had pasta a few times too... :)

The only big downside of my time there was that I dropped my camera in the fountain right outside the Louvre. It slipped out of my pocket when I was sitting on the ledge. It was emerged in water for about 8 seconds before I noticed that it had fallen. I took out the battery and memory card right away and when we got back to our accommodation, I took my camera apart into as many pieces as I could and gave it 24 hours to dry out. Tried to turn it on the next day.... didn't work. Gave it another 24 hours. Nope, still broken. Finally, at the end of day 3 it turned on but still had quite a bit of water damage and the picture quality was horrible. As the days went on (and when I got into Madrid) the quality improved and now it is almost back to normal.
Here are some pictures from our time in Paris.. mostly from before I (almost) killed my camera.