It's our luggage!! Hip-Hip-Hooray!!! Here they are... exhausted from a super long day, but SOOOO elated to see their luggage that they now can't sleep!! :)
Our day started out late... our bus showed up with a microphone that didn't work, so it took an hour to replace/fix that, so we were late leaving for our city tour. Our local guide took us all over the city of Paris to see the Arc, the Louvre, Luxoumburg Gardens/Palace, Invalides, Concord Plaza, Ritz Carlton hotel, Opera, River Seine, down the Champs, across many bridges, and the Eiffel Tower. Phew...
We then headed out to the Palace of Versailles - they've added some gold since I was last there. Half did the Palace tour 1st and the other half grabbed lunch - we then switched and ended in the gardens. They were amazing - so manicured and maticulate... impressive. Got some freshly squeezed orange juice on our way out... and were just in time to see the fountains go off. They only go off for 1 1/2 hrs... not even sure it's every day!! Awesome!
We then headed back to Center City - went into Notre Dame - yeah!!
After dinner, we trekked over the the Eiffel Tower and got to go up to the top... even Erin (Cyndy - you would have been proud!!) After Eiffel Tower, we met at 10 pm and took a boat cruise of the City of Lights. Beautiful!! Luckily our boat was covered because it was a crazy weather day today. The kids have been freezing because it was probably in the 50s with spitting rain... oh joy... this afternoon/evening. A couple 'sticky fingers' snagged blankets from the airplane and have been using those... looked like hobos, but it worked. Erin & Kelly got sweatshirts at the Tower... little high priced, but worth it for the freezing kids.
We didn't get back to the hotel till 12:30 a.m. to have our Tour Director, Jesus, surprise us with our luggage!! You would've thought we'd won the lottery!!! You can see it in their faces in the picture! :)
I do have to say that I've gotten quite a few compliments from the other adults on how mature the kids have been about the whole lost luggage fiasco... they really haven't been whining... just when they're cold... but not a lot about being in the same clothes, etc... Kudos to them!!
Well, it's after 2 a.m. and I need to be up at 6 a.m. to leave at 7:30 tomorrow. Ay dios mio! We're off to Chartres & the Loire Valley - leaving the big metropolis of Paris for a while.
Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers & funny comments - all that was lost is now found!!
Hugs ~ steph :)
2 comments:
Hurray!! Now you can have a bath and clean undies. Maybe Jesus will give you a tip today! Isn't Versailles just amazing! Stay warm and have fun!
So glad all is well now! Love reading the blog and reminising (sp?) about all of those places I saw back in 2000.
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