Emily, Mara and I are back from Paris. We were there March 5 (arrived on the 6th) to March 12. Airfares, hotels much cheaper this time of the year! We stayed at the Hotel Gotty in the Opera (9th) District, so were about 20 minutes (walking) north of the Louvre, for example. We walked 6-10 miles every day.
We saw the Louvre, the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower one day. Another day we saw the Musee d'Orsay,
Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur and the Conciergerie (where Marie Antoinette was help awaiting her beheading).
One day Mara stayed in "bed" while Emily and I saw the Picasso Museum and the Holocaust Museum.
Another day, we walked around Montmarte (where many artists lived and painted) but it was so cold, rainy, windy, we ended up basically shopping!
I used a Paris Museum pass, and the girls got in everything Free (under 19)!
The last day we were there, we took a train to Versailles. It was amazing.
The things the girls liked best: Nutella, the Mona Lisa, Versailles, pizza from the "Italian Guys" down the street from the hotel.
The things the girls liked the least: missing their friends (and phone calls home not easy), no one spoke English, and all the walking.
Mom probably enjoyed it the most, love to travel, love to see history!
Paris was very expensive! For example, the hamburgers and fries (Delicious!) you see the girls enjoying were at the Hard Rock Cafe and cost over $20 each!
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