Paris, France

Paris was the best! It was such a big town, with so many large monuments to see. We were able to stay in the same hotel the entire time in Paris, which was nice for a change. The first thing we found while in Paris was an excellent bakery, which we frequented every morning, and sometimes in the evenings. The French girl that worked in the mornings was the cheeriest little thing I had seen on all of our vacation. She was always greeting us with a peppy "Bonjour" when we arrived (which means hello) and "Merci" when we left (goodbye). In Paris it was nice to be able to take our time sightseeing, since we didn't have anywhere else in France to visit. We had hoped to go down to Normandy, France to see the battlefields, but once we were in Europe and talked with some people it was going to be a far distance for a lot of money, so we decided to cut it from our plans. The Eiffel Tower was so much larger in real life than I had pictured it being. We took an elevator ride up to almost the top and then you could take the stairs to go up even higher. I decided to stop at the level the elevator takes you, but Blake went all the way. I don't loves heights, and it's not even enjoyable for me to be in that situation for even a quick glance. The Louvre museum, if I could use any phrase to describe that place it would be "oh my gosh." Not necessarily because of all the wonderful things to see, but because of the size of the museum. It's divided into 3 wings and there are 4 levels to each wing, which doesn't sound like a lot until you see how much there is to see on each level. I think if you wanted to see everything in that museum you would need to do a wing a day and take 3 days to see it all. We did see the Mona Lisa which was cool.