It begins in Paris

We left for Paris after a couple nights stay in London. We took the ferry from Dover to Calais. On the ferry ticket stub was a free voucher ticket to Disneyland Paris!! Well who can pass up an offer like that? Not us apparently. We bought the second ticket on board for 20% off! BARGIN!!!

Once we reached the hotel we were freakishly hungry and knew of no where to go so we stayed nearby checking out the restaurants.It was all in french so we just guessed and ended up eating at the most delicious japanese restaurant.

The next day was our first full day in Paris. We started off with the Eiffle Tower. I was so excited! I saw the Eiffle tower from the plane to England a month ago and had been dying to see it up close ever since. You know how some places just don't live up to your expectations? Like this thing you have been waiting to see is a lot less impressive and smaller than you thought it would be? Well, that is not the Eiffle tower at all! It is so much more detailed and incredibly larger than I thought it would be! It is absolutely amazing!

After that we saw the Arc de Triomphe. It was pretty large and impressive too. As we took pictures some guy came up to Nathan who had found a ring on the ground. It was too big for him so he gave it to Nath and began to walk away, then came back asking for money probably thinking his act of kindness deserved payment. Well we told him we didn't have any money and so he took the ring back. A week later Peter, Nathan's bother, sent us an e-mail warning us of scams that may happen on our trip, including the ring one! Apparently it had happened to him as well. When the guy gives you the ring he is marking you as a pick-pocket target for his cahoots. Good thing we didn't keep the ring!

Inside Arch de Triomphe

Last thing we did was travel across town to this giant shopping, Galleries La Fayette. Then we realized we were heading the wrong way and just decided to carry on home. We needed our rest for tomorrow: Disneyland day.

We took a train the next morning to Disneyland!!! It took us a while to get going on the rides because our first choice, Space Mountain: Mission 2, broke down just as we were about to get on. Fine, no matter, they gave us a fast pass for any ride at any time. Bargin. So we went to our next choice, My favorite ride ever! Tower of Terror!(Always reminds me of Kati Fischer, she loves this ride too) The lines for everything had been so long that we used our fast pass right away just to get on a ride. Well, fast pass fail. It still took about a half hour to get on the ride. After dropping from a massive hight, we were energized and took off to ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indian Jones, Haunted Mansion and so on. We did finally get on Space Mountain and it was amazing! It was a real coaster, with a loop and corkscrews, in a scarily realistic representation of space. Loved it. All and all, you can just never go wrong with Disney.

The next day we recovered from walking and running and standing massive amounts at Disneyland. We took it easy all day and spent the evening at the Eiffel Tower. At the start of every hour after 7pm the tower lights up in a speckatular show for 5 minutes. We just sat on a blanket, drank fancy sholer, and played cards while waiting for the lights to begin. Once they did we just watched in awe and listened to Owl City.

Outside the Louvre,  I was tired

 

Inside the Louvre glass triangle

Statues

Our last day, the morning was spent at the Louvre. We saw aphrodite (the sculpture missing the arms), along with thousands of other pictures that were nice but lets be honest, we don't know art so it wasn't thrilling by any means. It was still enjoyable though. We saved the best for last.. the Mona Lisa! There were lots of other people around it and you had to stay back about 5 feet, but it was really cool to see in real life. After the Louvre we went to Notre Dame. It was neat just to say we saw it. It honestly looked a lot like the many amazing churches around France. We have seen lots of churches. :)

We were just really worn out by the time we left Paris so we were excited to get to the South of France to spend a week just hanging out. It has been so long since we have been able to do absolutely nothing. So on to the next Adventure!