L'Opera Garnier.

So today may have been the most awesome day ever. Our excursion today was to L'Opera Garnier. You may think "whoopie, an opera house." I think "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!! Phantom of the Opera!" Okay so maybe everyone on the metro didn't want to hear how excited I was about going to the Opera House, but I just couldn't hold it in.

For those of you who aren't giant nerds and don't already know this, L'Opera Garnier was commissioned by Napoleon to be made by Charles Garnier and was to become the main Opera House of Paris. Unfortunately for that little guy, he died in exile before his masterpiece was ever finished. There is no other way to describe this building than as a masterpiece. Everything in it is so ornate and detailed that many took to calling it Le Palais Garnier (because it was so much like a palace rather than an opera house.

See what I mean?

So this place is pretty epic just in its beauty, but it also has a very interesting history. It was not uncommon for people to go to the opera but never watch the show. They were far more interested in watching each other. It was gossip central: who was with who? Who was wearing what? Those Parisians gossiped more than Perez Hilton! One year the chandelier fell into the audience and killed one person which is what started the idea for the book, Phantom of the Opera. The opera house even has an underground reservoir, not unlike the underground lake in the book. Fun fact that only Kirsten cares about: Audrey Hepburn also walked down the stairs in the film Funny Face. So basically this was the most amazing thing to get to see today.

Audrey stood here!

So it may seem like all I do in Paris is eat, shop, walk, and eat but I really get to see some of the coolest history that is here! Who knows what I'll see tomorrow.