6/28
It was June 28, our Eiffel tower day. We woke up early and made a bee-line straight to the tower. The lines weren’t too long and we got tickets to the top after a short wait. Not cheap but what is one to do?
We elevatored to the second level and walked around for too long. The view was mesmerizing, but so was the wait for the elevator to go to the very top. Up there you could see incredibly far from that dizzying height, but the beauty of Paris was also quite far away. While up at the top, nature took its course and first Steve used the bathroom. Clean, tidy, nice bathroom. Benji couldn’t resist. When Benji came out, he had pictures to share.
Back down on the ground, we had a few hours before our 48 hour museum pass expired. So we zipped through the metro system to the Pantheon, making a quick stop for lunch. Cajun chicken sandwich for me, wrap for Marina, smoked salmon bagel for Benji, salmon sandwich for Ilana.
The pantheon was awesome! Huge, ornate, awe-inspiring – a venue used by France to honor some of its dead heroes. In the crypt below, we visited the graves of Victor Hugo (hunchback), Marie Curie (radiation), Dumas’s (Count of Monte Christo) and someone I loved in college, Zola (Germinal).
After the Pantheon, gelatos got us all back into motion again. So we walked and walked, first just heading into the Luxembourg Gardens, then down the Seine, then across the bridge with all the locks on it, and where did we end up? The Louvre. So we went back in just to use the air conditioning and the bathrooms.
Marina had dinner at home. Benji and I sought dinner in Bezons, and Ilana treated herself to a fancy dinner in Paris. Let them eat cake.
It was June 28, our Eiffel tower day. We woke up early and made a bee-line straight to the tower. The lines weren’t too long and we got tickets to the top after a short wait. Not cheap but what is one to do?
We elevatored to the second level and walked around for too long. The view was mesmerizing, but so was the wait for the elevator to go to the very top. Up there you could see incredibly far from that dizzying height, but the beauty of Paris was also quite far away. While up at the top, nature took its course and first Steve used the bathroom. Clean, tidy, nice bathroom. Benji couldn’t resist. When Benji came out, he had pictures to share.
Back down on the ground, we had a few hours before our 48 hour museum pass expired. So we zipped through the metro system to the Pantheon, making a quick stop for lunch. Cajun chicken sandwich for me, wrap for Marina, smoked salmon bagel for Benji, salmon sandwich for Ilana.
The pantheon was awesome! Huge, ornate, awe-inspiring – a venue used by France to honor some of its dead heroes. In the crypt below, we visited the graves of Victor Hugo (hunchback), Marie Curie (radiation), Dumas’s (Count of Monte Christo) and someone I loved in college, Zola (Germinal).
After the Pantheon, gelatos got us all back into motion again. So we walked and walked, first just heading into the Luxembourg Gardens, then down the Seine, then across the bridge with all the locks on it, and where did we end up? The Louvre. So we went back in just to use the air conditioning and the bathrooms.
Marina had dinner at home. Benji and I sought dinner in Bezons, and Ilana treated herself to a fancy dinner in Paris. Let them eat cake.
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