The first trip that we took once my Dad and Aunt got her was a train to Paris. We took the high speed train into the city, it was quite an experience going over 300 kph through the gorgeous countryside.
The first day we went the the Eiffel tower and as soon as we got there is started pouring down rain. As we were standing under cover waiting for it to stop, Kaelyn naturally started licking it off the of fence, and catching it out of the sky,
When Nick and I came in January, we didn't go up into the tower, so it was a fun thing to see this huge, historic city from so high.
The next two days we took a bus tour that allows you to hop on and off at any of their stops so that you can see the sights, while they explain the history of all of the buildings you are passing.
We passed so many beautiful buildings, but honestly I don't remember anything about most of them. They were pretty to look at though.
We did go to the Louvre, which is wear the original Mona Lisa is housed as well as many other famous pieces of art.
There is always a huge crowd in front of the Mona Lisa, so I stayed back with the kids and had a snack while they squeezed up to the front to get a picture and a better look.
William absolutely loves going to museums and looking at art and statues, so they really had a good time.
The best time though was going to Notre Dame.
Right outside were probably a hundred pigeons, which put Kaelyn in heaven.
There was a man there with a bag full of bird seed, he would give it to the kids for them to feed the birds. After a couple of times he put it on William's head.
We spent a good hour or two before and after touring the chapel playing with the birds.
Kaelyn, as always, was extremely popular with all of the tourists. Any time we are out, all of the oriental women want to have their picture taken with her. There were a couple of brides there having pictures done and one of them came to ask me if they could have her in a couple of their pictures. I thought it was strange but I told Kaelyn that she was a princess so she went along with it.
The chapel was amazing, so beautiful inside but to me the truly amazing thing was the outside of the building.
On the last day we went on a boat tour down the river. Because the water was so high from all of the storms and flooding they had had, some things were cut out but that meant that we were able to go farther down the river in the other direction and see the mini statue of liberty instead.
The kids are always all for boat rides.
After lunch, ice cream is always a must, we usually have it every day when we are traveling as a family. We are really going to miss the ice cream here in Europe/
Before heading back for the night to get all packed and hop on the train, we spend some time hanging out by the river, chasing birds and throwing leaves in.
It was a great start to their five weeks here, everyone had so much fun, and we made so many memories.
