We made a last-minute decision to leave a day early on our trip to Rouen and headed to Paris last Tuesday evening to see the city. To our children, Paris meant the Eiffel Tower--nothing more, nothing less. Ruth had only ever seen a couple of sites in Paris during a short layover on a train trip we took back in 2000. The children had never been outside of the airport.
We saw what we wanted to see: the Eiffel Tower. The children were quite impressed with the size. We found a good place to park a little over a mile away, and we ate a sandwich while we waited in line to head up the tower. We only went to the second floor of three. It was cheaper that way and saved us from having to wait another 45 minutes in the line for the second elevator that carries you from the second to the third landing. What we saw was beautiful. On the way home we drove around the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs Elysées, passed the Notre Dame and a few other landmarks. We were surprised to find Paris didn’t feel as foreign and strange as we had expected. We figure we must be getting used to living in France. That said, Paris certainly is in a class of its own and worthy to be among the great cities of the world.
Check back again soon for more news about the rest of our trip.
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