Chad and I finally made it to Paris! It’s one of my favorite cities on earth. What is better is we spent the time with Chad’s parents. We drove about half way to Paris and stopped in Dijon. BTW, everyone has already asked us why we drove to Paris. Yes, we know that there is a high-speed train to Paris, and yes we know that it is usually cheaper, and yes we know that traffic is abominable in Paris. We really know that traffic is abominable in Paris. But a rental car just turns out to be more economical when you have four people travelling together. No, it really is. 🙂 What a pretty little place. There was a great church that had tons of gargoyles on it. We drove some more and stopped briefly in a little town called Nitry. There is some dispute over what the town was called for real. But when I checked a map I found out my mom won, and I lost. It was super old and looked like medieval life could still carry out the same as hundreds of years ago. And a random guy stopped us on the street to see if we were lost and then he showed us around his chateau. We finally got to Paris that evening.
I do not think I would ever drive into Paris again. It was crazy and frustrating and we were glad when the car was parked and we didn’t have to worry about it again for awhile. The next two days we got in the sites we wanted to enjoy the most. We went to the top of the Eiffel tower. We toured the Musee d’Orsay. Elisa was really nice to go see the museums that I wanted to go to. We went to the Notre Dame. We actually saw a Notre Dame in Dijon, Paris and Strasbourg. We took a little night cruise on the Seine river and ate a fabulous French meal. We saw Sacre Coeur, snacked on crepes, attempted to see the Opera house and Catacombs and saw the Louvre. Everything was pretty great besides the rain, some rude waiters, the rain, some closed sites and the rain. Poor Chad was walking in wet shoes for 3 days! The French were not very impressed with our attempts to speak French.
On our way out of town we stayed along the drive home and then stopped in Strasbourg the next day. What a fun place! I love it like I love Salzburg. It had such a bustling and quaint atmosphere. We had a lot of fun.