X:Paris

How could we live in Europe and avoid Paris?  From Brussels, Paris is a short 90 minute train ride on the Thalys high speed train (300 km/hr, ~186 mi/hr), so you would think we could just go every weekend!

Two weeks after we arrived, we visited Paris for New Year's Eve - we rode on a giant ferris wheel by the Jardins des Tuileries (central Paris, near the Louvre), then we went out for a midnight bottle of champagne!  What a better way to ring in the new year (and a new currency, as the Euro was introduced the next day)...
The Paris ferris wheel  New Year's Eve in Paris

We returned to Paris at Christmas 2003 - we were flying out of Paris to visit Mark's family, and thought it would be nice to spend a few days in Paris first!
We visited Notre Dame,
Notre Dame de Paris

We climbed up (not to the top unfortunately), but to where the arrow is (the top part was closed that day).  From up there, we had some nice views of Paris...
A view of Paris Paris from Notre Dame
Sacre Coeur Or is it Memorex?

 
Ha ha, did that second Sacre Coeur fool you? X::)
Later, we visited the Louvre and the Mona Lisa (kids were thrilled by this of culture), then down to the X:Paris sewers, then on a boat ride along the Seine (and yes, there really is a copy of the Statue of Liberty along the Seine...)

Where are we?

Chasing pigeons on the streets of Paris - what more could a child want?
 Merry go round near the Eiffel tower
Pigeons Merry go round


Something you don't see every day - after we returned from the US, John was sooooo tired that he fell asleep at the table eating Cheetos!
  Sleepy John


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