Jour Cinq means day 5 and here we are in Paris! You’ll only see some of us in their picture in front of the Siene River because the twins needed to rest after Jessica so graciously shared her illness with Katie. We haven’t gone to another hospital yet, but the pharmacy has been our friend and we are loading them up so that we might get through this trip with our entire party entact.
That’s us. All bundled up and a little wet from the rain. It doesn’t stop us! We had just three hours to explore a bit of Paris and we saw so much. The Notre Dame Cathedral which we will be back for tomorrow. The Latin Quarter was beautiful with a millions ships, restaurants, Boulangeries, and patisseries. We had so much fun just walking and looking at everything. Old buildings. Churches. What seems like ancient houses. Everything is so old.
The funny thing about Paris is that you’re walking and you see nothing, then you turn a corner and voila! There’s a huge cathedral. And on many corners you see the bread and pastry shops. Emily was obviously in heaven. We got chocolate (mine had “butter salt” and it was amazing).
After exploring a bit, we jumped back on the Metro and headed back to our cute apartment to shower and get ready for dinner with a Parisian family. In Jessica’s French language class her teacher set up pen pals so that students could improve their French and the French students could improve their English. They’ve been writing and communicating for two years now and they want to visit each other but we felt a little more comfortable meeting the family first. They were delightful and we had a true French dinner with snails, scallops, fois gras, ratatouille, salmon, potatoes, and two desserts. Crepes and King Cake (which involves playing a game with the youngest child in the house and finding a toy in the cake. It was so cool to experience real French traditions and eat authentic food. We hope they come visit America! Here’s a shot of all the kids.
After eating a ton and talking for hours, they drove us home to our apartment, but not before driving to the Arc de Triumph, Champs elyses, and the Eiffel Tower. We are so happy that we got to see these at night. What a sight for my tired tired eyes.
And at midnight the Eiffel tower sparkles...it was wonderful.
Grams, Papa, Rachelle, and Adrianna went to dinner near our apartment and we heard Papa had two glasses of wine so needless to say they were all passed out by the time we stumbled in at nearly 1am. What a night. This is why we travel. Such cool experiences and exploring new places.
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