phantoms and ballerinas

There were three things on our Paris list that did not get done...one of them was going to the opera at the Opéra de Paris. We packed dress up dresses and fancy shoes and pretty necklaces and earrings but sadly there  never seems to be the  time to do every single thing on any one journey and so the opera night was not to be. But, don't fret for us quite yet because we did manage to make a day time excursion into the Palais Garnier and behold all of it's splendor. What an absolutely fantastical, gorgeous, amazing place it is. And one day when I return to Paris, in the wintertime of early 2014, I will attend an opera or maybe a ballet in this wonderful building.

And oh yeah, the other two things that we did not get to, a visit to Père Lachaise  cemetery and an adventure down into the Catacombs, will be done one day too...