An interesting day to say the least. Today was our transfer day from London to Paris. We woke up rather early (5 am!) to make sure we were out of the hotel by 6:45 to get to King’s Cross train station to get on the EuroStar to Paris. Our train left at about 9 am and the ride took just over two hours. The funny thing was that all the kids were excited to “see” the Chunnel, the link between England and France, but almost every one of them missed the short trip through the tunnel as they were asleep! We also skipped ahead an hour once we arrived in Paris.
From the train station we got on our bus and started a three hour tour with a city guide. We saw a ton of different sites and stopped at a couple of locations, including a great vantage point of the Eiffel Tower (picture of the group is below). We ended the tour at Notre Dame Cathedral, which is amazing to think that this church has stood here since the 1300s!
The bus then took us to our hotel and we checked in. We then headed to dinner, so we used the Metro trains to get back downtown. We had a traditional Moroccan dinner (French connection!). Then a bus got us back to the hotel for an early evening, which the group needs badly to catch up on sleep!
Tomorrow we are headed to see the Louvre Museum in the morning and then going to Versailles Palace in the afternoon. We will head back into the city in the afternoon and eat dinner and then take a night cruise on the River Seine. Hopefully I will have time to blog again tomorrow night. I also had Ben Sever and Luke Barulich blog while we were on the train so please check their posts out in Falcon Corner! Au revoir! Mr. C
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