My parents let Gavin and I each choose a city to plan and be in charge of. I chose Paris. I wanted to go to Paris because I really wanted to see the Eiffel Tower and some of the art museums. Paris is famous for the museums, you know.
On our first day, we went on the Paris metro for the first time. When we got off, we were at The Opera Plaza stop where everyone told us to start the double decker bus tour. Gavin was frozen on the top of the bus.
When we pased the Eiffel Tower, we decided to get off and go up it. (Took the stairs, of course.) The first floor was really fun because it has a history museum of the Eiffel Tower. There also was a "Folow Gus" scavenger hunt where you had to find the answers to questions about the Eiffel Tower. We learned a lot from it. Gus is the nickname for the architect Gustave Eiffel. When we went up to the second floor, there was an awesome view of Paris. I was sad to leave the Eiffel Tower.
We also went to a few museums. We went to the Louvre. Once we entered, I realized why this is the most famous art museum in the world. When we got the tickets, we got to skip an hour wait because Brock had a stroller. We were really glad about this especially because it was raining so hard outside. One of my favorite paintings was the Mona Lisa. I got a great picture of it.
That night, we walked over to the Tuileries Garden. From a distance, there was a part that just looked like a big hedge but when we went back in the daytime I could see little tunnels, leading, who knows where… I climbed through one in the front and ended up in the back of the maze so I had to keep going through it…it’s like teleportation holes. Gavin, Brock and I played hide and seek with some kids from Washington D.C. and one round took 30 minutes!
We also went to the Musee d’ Orsay. Gavin sketched a drawing of a sculpture at the museum. I walked around.
One day we went to the Notre Dame Cathedral. When we looked inside of it, it was gigantic. There was one rose window in the center that was definitely spectacular.
One of my favorite places was this awesome pastry shop. I ordered an almond croissant that was really good. We all ordered something but everyone voted mine the best.
We also loved a "tart place" in the Latin Quarter that had the most amazing quiche!
In our apartment, there was one bed (or we thought). When we looked up we saw the ceiling. But, when you looked from an angle it was a different color and we figured out it was a bed. At first we didn’t know how to get it down but then we read the instructsion and just yanked on it and it fell down. In the morning, we pushed it back up for the day.
I have to say that Paris is one of the best cities I have been to so far, if not my favorite.
My god this trip looks amazing!!! Seriously, where are you off to next? Do you plan to go back to Spain or just keep going? My bro was just in Argentine and LOVED it - he said Buenos Aires was amazing. Miss you guys!
Posted by: Crystal Brown | 11/20/2010 at 06:13 AM
I agree with you. Paris is one of the best cities in the world! Did you know that they have catacombs too?
Posted by: Jeanne Antrim | 12/12/2010 at 08:11 PM
Yeah, it wouldn't be a complete Paris tour without a stopover at the Eiffel Tower. Seeing the tower itself and climbing inside its metal body makes you wonder what went through the mind of Gus while he was conceptualizing its design.
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We had the amazing experience of living in a Peruvian city of about about 100,000 people that is nine hours from Peru. Hardly anybody spoke English and we saw very few tourists.
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