Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Rest (and the Best) of our Trip

After Geneva, we spent a full week in Paris. We slept on Brian and Mary-Jane's floor in a crowded pups' nest.
First we ran Katie around the city to all the major monuments. We walked everywhere - I had a pedometer with me and we clocked 78 miles on this trip. Katie wasn't used to all the walking and she got a bunch of blisters - the bottoms of her feet looked like she cooked them in a waffle iron. Here are the sites we visited:

La Tour Eiffel








Notre Dame




Place de la Concorde




L'Arc de Triomphe





L'Hotel des Invalides



Le Musée du Louvre


 



L'Opéra Garnier



Sacré Coeur







Les Jardins de Luxembourg



Then we spent a day at Versailles.







Racing around and seeing all the sites took about four days, and we still had three more to engage in all sorts of merriment, relaxation and tomfoolery, such as...


















What a delightful trip. We had the best time. Thanks again Brian and Mary-Jane for having us.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Let's Start With Geneva

We had the best time in Geneva, Switzerland, where we spent the first three days of our trip. It was beautiful and exciting and expensive. The weather was unbelievable. We saw the Jet d'Eau (Europe's tallest geyser at 98 feet high), walked around the Vieille Ville (the old hillside part with St. Peter's Cathedral and lots of cobblestone streets), spent fifty dollars on a meal at McDonald's, went on a boat cruise around Lake Geneva, and even happened upon a nude beach.