Sightseeing in Paris

During the rest of our week in Belgium, we went on two more one day trips. Our original plan was for Susan, Barb and me to take the train to Paris during the day on Wednesday while the kids were in school. But you know, like all good plans............Susan's house is 20 minutes from the train station, so we left about 45 minutes early to allow time to park and buy tickets. But what we did not figure on was the early morning rush hour traffic. The inconvenience of all of these people trying to get to work while all we wanted to do was to get to Paris to play. As you have figured by now, we got to the station too late.......so Susan drove the 2 hours to the Paris airport with the intention of taking the train from there. The deGaulle airport is a maze and a zoo with construction and closed roads everywhere. Once we found the right terminal and a parking place miles from the train station, we became hopeful that the rest of the trip would be smooth.
We walked the entire length of the terminal, arrived at the train ticket window to be told that the trains were stopped due to a "suspicious" package on the tracks. After several minutes of debate and indecision, the good news was that the package was cleared and we could get on the train. Next event was that the tracks were bad part way to our first stop at the eiffel tower so we needed to depart and go a circuitous route on 2 two other trains.........



BUT FINALLY at 1:00 p.m.,
WE ARRIVED AT THE EIFFEL TOWER..............AND IT WAS A WOW!












Our only other priority that day was to go to the Louvre.










Of course we viewed the "famous" pyramid.








We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering through the galleries of the Louvre
and did see what Susan called the "famous 3"..........Winged Victory,Venus de Milo, and the Mona Lisa.









We then wandered around several other galleries.

We only had a few more hours in the afternoon ; by 5:00 o'clock we left the Louvre and headed back to the train to leave Paris and go home to Erbaut.





We had a great day and will some day go back.




Love to all of you.