Well folks, I’m back and aside from overly tired, pretty solid. Zak and I had the best trip ever. We took so many pictures that it’s going to take more than one blog to tell you all about it.
So, I’m going to start with our two days in Paris and work from there.
We both had been up for over 24 hours when we boarded the plan to France and planned to sleep on the plane. Alas, neither of us managed to get more than 2 hours of sleep. We tried, but were unsuccessful. We arrived bright and early in Paris and started the day running.
We got off a bus from the airport at the Paris Opera
We headed to our hostel and ate a baguette on the street while walking toward an area called Montmartre. It’s where the Moulin Rouge and the Sacred Heart church are located. The Moulin Rouge wasn’t too cool to look at, but the church was beautiful and packed with people.
The best part of day 1 in Paris was our stop at the Rodin Museum to see the gardens and The Thinker.
The garden was beautiful and peaceful and we loved it and were sad to leave. It’s a place you could go and stay all day, reading and looking at the statues.
We then saw the Arc de Triumph and ate some cheese before meeting Zak’s friend, Jill under the Eiffel Tower for wine and chatting.
Then we headed to an Irish pub for some more drinking before a lovely evening stroll back to our hotel through the area where Napoleon is buried and the congress meets.
The next day we took a lovely stroll along the Sienne River with its lovely bruidges and then to the Louvre.
Let’s take a moment to talk about the Louvre. It houses the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the statue Nike and about 14 million people were there when we were there.
There were so many crowds around each of the featured pieces that it was more of an art zoo than an art museum.
There is more Paris stuff to tell you about and show you but I am so tired that I am going to stop blogging now and finish tomorrow.
