PARIS

We decided to do the blog for Paris a little differently this time. Once again, our pictures are all on Picasa, and the link is below. Feel free to leave comments on any pictures on Picasa, the same way you can with facebook. Thanks for all the comments so far... it is so great knowing that people are keeping up with us while we're here!


Alright, the top things from Paris:

* The Palace of Versailles and its gardens. We spent probably 5-6 hours just wandering around the place and could spend so many more.

* Nutella. Crepes. Amazing.

* So many free public gardens around Paris. They were all so charming and it was so cool to see so many people picnicking and reading, etc.

* There is a huge fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower, about the size of a football field, and anyone can get in it and play. So of course we kicked our shoes off and wadded around in it too for awhile, and then just sat back and relaxed, enjoying the view of the tower and all the people having a good time. It was the perfect break in the middle of our very busy day.

* Many, many pictures of the Eiffel Tower. I still don't think it's quite sunk in that we were in front of THE Eiffel Tower!

* Using the Metro line (subway) like Parisian pros. Except, of course, for the time we hopped off, realized it wasn't the stop we wanted, and then ran back on before its doors closed. Phew!

* Watching the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night was pretty incredible. We have a video of it, but not sure how/when we'll get it on here!

* Dinner picnic in the Luxembourg gardens. Actually, it wasn't too much of a picnic. We had 4 euro left in our allotted food budget for the day, and we were both pretty hungry. We walked by a bakery and bought a foot long baguette for a euro, and then, after hoping and literally praying for a McDonalds, we actually came across one on our way to the garden! So, with 3 euro left we got 3 hamburgers to go with our huge baguette! It was quite a wonderful dinner. :)

* Lunch picnic in the garden in front of the Louvre on our last day. This time we found a deli sandwich on a baguette and a drink to split for 5 euro total. That left us with just enough to where we could each actually get our own Nutella crepe for one last great experience. Aaaah, until next time.

* Gorgeous weather. Sunny and 70s the entire weekend.

* Getting to speak French. "Oui" and "merci" and "pardon" are so much fun to say! The only bad thing is we would get so confused and say "si" for yes (Italian) and "grazie" for thank you (Italian) while we were there, and now we keep saying merci here! After we spend this next weekend in Spain we'll be SUPER confused!

* Celebrating our second anniversary in the City of Love. Yes, we do have some mushy pictures in this bunch, thanks to the self-timer function on our camera. But come on, how many times are you in Paris??!

Paris

http://picasaweb.google.com/AldenAdventures/Paris?feat=directlink