Here's the best-looking picture of me from the whole trip. I realized too late that my friend had taken the better pictures on her phone (of me when I went to the fancy dinner and was all dressed up </3 ) so I don't have those.
This was at the Happy Days Diner on St. Michel, in Paris, France. It's American-themed, like Jackrabbit Slim's in Pulp Fiction, and we really wanted to see how France handled the burger (spoiler: better than America can....)
I'm posting a few more so I don't at a later point -flush- (and since I look decent in that first picture lmao)
This was on top of La Roche Guyon. This seems unimportant, but I'll get to why La Roche Guyon was my favorite place in the whole trip-- the place where I'm standing is the top of the dungeon on the manor.
Here's a photo to show the height. I was at the very top of that white tower... and I started in the green courtyard.
There were steps about a foot tall and only a few inches wide I had to climb to get up there! And before the trip I wouldn't have been able to do that, so I felt proud of my own strength. Okay, I'm getting to something more relevent, don't worry--
(The gnome I'm holding is a joke to the movie Amelie, where the lead has her flight stewardess friend take photos of a garden gnome travelling. My mom packed it in my suitcase)
Okay, so, deep in the caverns of the manor, it was pitch-black-- my friends and I had to use the flashlights on their phones to go through it. We wondered if there was anything there, but then we heard this audio recording-- two guys speaking in french, though we couldn't understand it. Then we found this:
A time machine-- a replica of a time machine.
The story here, is that
a Belgian comic took place in this same manor, and they invested a lot of effort and care to add a replica of the time machine. And it wasn't like it was a large duration of the story-- it was a single issue of this comic.
It stood out to me, just how much France values comics. Can you imagine a single issue of your comic meaning so much to enough people they'd install a permanent installation of it in a historical site??!?? its incredible.
Comics are now a part of this French manor's history in a weird, but beautiful way.
(I later found out, the audio recording was from a cartoon adaptation of said comic!)
Okay, for enduring this post, here's a picture I took at Monet's gardens in Giverny.
Intro Story
King
@ 7:01 AM Mar 28th