We took the Metro (subway) to Luxembourg Gardens and spent most of the day there. We looked around a bit then I went for a run while the other kids went to the playground.
After my run, I had a part of a crepe, and a ham and cheese baguette. Once I had eaten something we bought tickets for a puppet show there. Unfortunately the whole thing was in French so we couldn’t understand the words! But we got the general idea of what was happening and it was a lot of fun to watch.
Oh and I think that I forgot to mention that my aunt is pretty fluent in French so that’s basically how we communicate. But anyway we left the show and watched some boys play soccer and then a little bit of a chess tournament in the park.
We left Luxembourg and went to St Sulpice one of the oldest churches in Paris. We didn’t stay too long but we did have a discussion about the Divinci Code because some of it took place there.
After that we took the Metro to Rue de Cler, a busy street of shops and cafe’s near the Eiffel Tower. We walked around for a while trying to find a place to eat. Since its Sunday lots of the stuff was closed. We did manage to find a nice little café which was very full. We had a nice dinner consisting of cheese, meat, bread, salad and ravioli, for dessert we had crème brulee. It was unbelievably good!
Next we walked to the Eiffel tower. We went at night because the tower is lit up and at the top of every hour it twinkles for ten minutes. This was absolutely amazing! We took the elevator up to the second level and got some souvenirs and gifts. Then we took the elevator up to the tip top, it was very exciting. We were up at just the right time so the lights were twinkling and it made a strobe light affect (which got very annoying, but we ignored it). We were so high up that we could see things for miles and miles. It was beautiful to see Paris all lit up at night. On the way down I wanted to take the stairs so my mom, my cousin and I went down all 586 of them. I know there were 586 steps because we counted!
After that we took the Metro back to our part of town and got some delicious gelato ice cream. Now we’re getting ready for bed and its late so I should probably go. Please don’t forget to comment and I’ll tell you all about our adventures tomorrow. As the French would say, au revoir or good bye.
Christian
2 comments:
Thanks so much for giving me your Blog address. I am truly enjoying following your amazing trip. Christian, you are doing such a great job. Grace, I couldn't open your site at school so I copied it and took it in and shared it with our class. Everyone was so happy to know you are having such a fun time!
Love, mrs. mann
Wow, Christian, not many people can say that they ran in Paris! I am impressed but with all that you guys are eating it may be the only way to fit on the plane.
I just posted the picture of you and Gracie at the Eiffel Tower at night on our website. So far 51 people have stopped by to look at the pictures!
I know other people have asked this question, but are the people in Paris friendly to you all? What is it like to be in a country where everyone else speaks another language and you are the foreigner? I bet you will think differently about it when you hear someone speaking another language when you come home.
Have a wonderful time. Ben is spending the night with Jake and Carson. Needless to say they are pretty geeked about being together and they sure can make a lot of noise! We hope to see the Spiderwick Chronicles tomorrow but a lot will depend on how quickly I can replace our water heater which died this afternoon! Booo!
Have a great time.
Love,
Grandpa Foster
Post a Comment