Hello Again,
We made it back from our epic adventure in Paris. It was great.
We left at 6am to catch our Train to Paris and go through the Chunnel...DeAnn survived it! Once we got to the station in Paris, we felt a little overwhelmed (which is expressed in the video below). Who knew everything would be written in French? We got our metro tickets and DeAnn the amazing map navigator got us on the metro to our first stop the Lourve. After this, we walked to Notre Dame. The walk was really fun, and relatively quiet on the streets, which I think we both enjoyed. We got to Notre Dame just in time to hear Quasimodo ring the beautiful bells. We also discovered that we could go in for free, yes we took advantage of free. The inside was amazing, beautiful architecture and stain glass windows. We were slightly disturbed by all the money exchanges going on within the church though, especially when a service started (we decided it was time to leave)! Next stop, a beautiful Opera house, where we were harrased by Pharaoh for some spare change. We learned that if you are asked if you speak english, the best response is shaking your head no, or saying you are from the Czech Republic. We ate lunch at a very crowded restaurant where we had pasta with a dove egg in it and some sort of meat...it was very tasty though. From here we ventured to the Tour Eiffel, which was very fun to see and we walked around the park area for a while. Last stop back to the Lourve to actually go in and explore. Oh, and before leaving we had to get some crepes! YUUMMMM.
Today, we plan on having a really easy day. We are both pretty tired. We are thinking some place local for some reading and coffee. Tomorrow we will be tourists again. And Sunday we leave for Manchester to see Claire (April's college roommate and friend)!
Things we learned:
-French smoke way more than English
-If you go to a French Cafe at rush hour you will be seated at a table with someone else and share their food.
-It is ok to walk around in fountains and steal the Euros that other people have thrown in
-If you say you speak english you will be handed a letter to read about a family moving to Paris from Bosnia.
-Pharaohs are really really popular in Paris and very creepy.
Au Revoir,
Ape and De
Two videos:
Wow, how cool! We're really loving these updates! The pictures are fabulous! As Jadyn and I were praying last night, she reminded me to pray for DeAnn (duh!...I was getting there!), so I moved on to pray for DeAnn..."Dear God, please keep DeAnn safe and..." and Jadyn pops in with "...and April..." She's so good! I can always count on her to cover me! So ladies, Jadyn has you both covered in prayer, so you should be good to go! Enjoy your "day off" today! We look forward to more updates!
ReplyDeleteY'all are so adorable. Keep having fun. merci beaucoup for sharing with us. hope you continue to be tre bien (very good) and we will see you later. a bientot :) PS the first video was hard to hear but the 2nd was awesome.
ReplyDeleteY'all are missing SXSW!!! Actually if listen carefully you can probably hear it from there!!!
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