July 23-25, 2004

We spent a three-day weekend in Paris walking around the city. It is only a three-hour train ride from Rotterdam, and we got to ride first class on the Thalys high speed train, which was extremely nice. In Paris we saw all the major sites: the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, the Pompidou Museum, the Moulin Rouge, Opera House, walked along the Seine (which was a gorgeous green), the Pantheon, Luxembourg palace and gardens, walked down the Champs-Élysées and saw all the extremely high-priced designer clothes, and walked up Monmarte and Sacré Coeur (we counted the steps - 221!).

The absolute best thing we did the whole weekend was go on a short hot air balloon ride. It stayed on a tether and went up about 150m. It left from a really pretty park so we got a great view of that and the whole city (and of course the Eiffel Tower). It was really windy though, so the ride was a little rough but I loved it.

On la Seine	In Front of Eiffel Tower	Arc de Triomphe
Balloon	Eddie on Balloon	View from Balloon
Sacré Coeur	View of City from Sacré Coeur	Orsay
Champs Élysées	View of Champs Élysées from Arc de Triomphe	Eddie at Arc de Triomphe
Palace at Luxembourg	The Louvre	La Seine at Night
Eddie Under Eiffel Tower	Eiffel Tower at Night	Eiffel Tower Sparkling
View from Directly Under Eiffel Tower	Filming of Movie in front of the Eiffel Tower	Moulin Rouge
Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
Notre Dame at Night	Pantheon	Park André Citroën
Playing in the Fountain	Pompidou Modern Art Musuem	Dancers Outside the Pompidou
Marie Curie Institute	Free Food on the Train	Hotel
Alyson Holding Eiffel Tower

 

 

 

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