The only reason I'm staying up to blog is because this connection is so freakishly slow tonight that I have to do SOMETHING while waiting for all of these photos to upload. I promise no depth to the conversation. Check out what pictures got uploaded before it just got too slow.
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Yesterday we hit up Versailles and the Eiffel tower, then finished the evening with dinner and hanging with Dave and Mary in their apartment. Versailles was beautiful. They haven't quite finished planting flowers, but it's pretty close and the temperature is perfect. The garden is vast and took half the time. We forgot their sun was the same as our though. Almost everyone is a little pink. The palace is vast and much of it isn't even on display. The Eiffel tower is cool, but not a must. The lines are horrid so we walked up the first level and took the elevator to the second.
Today, we had a late start. We got in late the night before to find a concert going on nearby which kept someone up all night. Then, morning noise woke me up pretty early. There was a note on Dave and Mary's building directing us to a nearby cafe. Apparently, they got tired of waiting for us. The neighborhood around their apartment is the perfect place to see normal French life and find normal priced merchandise and food. You'll see breakfast and our fun waiter who is expecting us to help him out when he and his brother visit Chicago next year...
Today was much more walking than before, but our feet have quit whining about it. Saint Chapelle (sp) is beautiful, but quick. After a while, I got tired of trying to figure out which biblical scene we were looking at. There are hundreds, I believe, from creation to revelation.
Next, the Louvre. Everyone else took 2-3 hours in the Louvre. I booked through in an hour and a half then, checked on our rental car. We understand now why it takes a couple of days to see properly. It's certainly the best museum experience ever. The building it's self is more impressive than Versailles. It's hard to imagine the size from these pictures. It's the two levels above ground and two below. Easily four or five football fields long on each end.
The team did a little shopping along the river and then took our sweet time trying to find the dock for our cruise. It only took an hour to find!
There are plenty of other sights to see, but the best we can do is drive by the Arc de Triumph on the way out of town tomorrow - to Normandy! Ya, I'm a little nervous about driving in Paris. It's not as crazy as some countries I've been in, but the streets are narrow, lanes are iffy and intersections seem confusing. Eh!
This connection is trying to die on me. Must publish!
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