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... looked like we might get away with camping near the park as there seemed lots of campers and places to park for the day. We cycled towards the city excited as children, its been fifteen years since I was last in Paris and Sharon has never been, its one of the last major places in western Europe we haven't been to together, for one reason or another we just never made it. So to see the tower for the first time spurred us on, it felt like the end of a marathon the legs were empty ...

Hey, It's Alecia again. I'm writing some more. I also added to Sunday night's post.
We got up kind of late this morning because we needed sleep. We wanted to go to Giverny, but didn't know exactly when the trains left. When we got to the place to get the tickets we realized the train we wanted had already left. We changed our plans and went to the Orangerie Museum instead. This museum was really cool ...

... seats. This meant that since there was less seats/people (and therefore less mass on the airplane), throttle up at takeoff was a little more thrilling than usual. F=ma, you see, and when m goes down, a goes "Woo!" Unfortunately, the trip wasn't quite up to the standards that we've been spoiled by flying United international business (which is funny, because UA gets poked often because it has, subjectively, one of the lamest business-class products in the ...

... and see Emmanuel, the big bell (I did not see Quasimodo, although I looked!).  Then you climb to the top, and it is so beautiful.   It was really foggy when we went, but even in the fog you could just make out the Eiffel Tower in the horizon, and all of Paris as you turned around and looked in different directions.  Incredible.After the Notre Dame, Vanessa and I went to the Paris Opera House.  For anyone interested, the Paris Opera House is where the Phantom of the ...

... The crepes were boring him, lol. He said he'd been having trouble with the crepes the last couple of hours. For ours, he was going to make us fresh ones, but they weren't good enough for him. He had a bad crepe day. They were delicious though! The kids played for awhile. Then DS went down the street with me to get some Turkish food for dinner. On the way he said he was ready to go home. I asked him why. He said he was tired of being a Parisian. LOL

... pices, je crois. Mais çà pue! Quand on s'est perdu, on était sur une belle rue avec toutes sortes de boutique. Il va falloir la retrouver. Il y avait de tout sur ...

... bellringer, but also the massive statues (especially the Kings of Judah) and intriguing gargoyles sticking out from pillars and buttresses. The line to go inside was incredibly long, and we had not yet purchase our Paris Museum passes, so we stopped long enough to take the requisite photos and headed across another bridge, back on the mainland of Paris. During the walk we also saw the Pantheon (a Neoclassical monument honoring ...

... that we would drop it off on the 23rd when they could fix it!! It was very very funny and all seven staff were in the room trying to translate to us and all were thankfully seeing the funny side of it!! As we left we gave them some hats and beanies with Australia on it and they were all trying them on saying ooohhh "Australie" because we thing they thought we were British!! Next we found our way into the heart of Paris (through a series of tunnels and we were wondering which one ...

We decided to skip breakfast this morning as yesterdays breakfast was so bad it turned us off continental breakfasts for life. I'll drink just about anything but yesterdays coffee was like dishwater and undrinkable. We bought muesli at the supermarket and went out for real coffee. It was very good coffee but then you would expect it at that price. We had made arrangements to meet up with one of the BOSS's schoolmates from Australia who was on exchange for a ...

... I mean comparing spain and germany I don't even have to say anything... but apart from that just the behaviours of people are quite intresting to watch. I can't really remember what I had noticed... but I definitly did notice something... ok maybe the red wine just did something to me that day... anyway... there were so many cool little pop-art stores and weird cartoon fan shops which had like figures of lucky luke and tin tin and the gorillaz and ...