Paris - Day 3

We started the day wandering through the opera house.

 This is the grand staircase. 

 The auditoriaum

 And the grand hall. (Not a bad place to spend the intermission)

That is Ellie on the balcony.

 The afternoon was spent at the Eiffel Tower.

We caught a boat at this bridge to take us closer to the tower.

 We arrived a little early for our scheduled time so we decided to get off the boat early and walk down to the tower.

 There are 3 floors you can go on and of course we had to do all of them.  The first floor has this glass floor you can see through.  We couldn't convince Kyle to come on.

 Ahh...Paris at night is so beautiful.

 We watched the tower sparkle of two separate nights.  One was from this bridge.

 The other was from right in front of it. 

Paris - Day 2

We woke up on Sunday and headed to church.  An elder interpreted for us so we could understand.

This is the modern art museum we passed on our way to church.

After church we wandered around.  We found this beautiful park.

We also stumbled on a Sunday market where we bought Emma's Eiffel Tower statue.

Another great discovery was this elevated park that runs the length of an old railway line

We then went to Notre Dame

And then out to lunch

 After lunch we went to St. Chappelle which has amazing stained glass.

This evening is when we had the macaroons and saw the lit up Eiffel Tower that was on the last post.

Paris - Day 1

After arriving in Paris we had a quick nap in our apartment and then headed out to explore the Latin Quarter.

Our first of many "chocolate chaud"

We stumbled upon this beautiful church.

 And explored the Luxenburg gardens.

Our first dinner was at a wonderfully delicious creperie.  Ellie couldn't fully appreciate it because her stomach was bothering her from the flight.

After dinner we enjoyed Paris and night and tried our first macaroons.