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Chateau to Paris

Dammit. This is what happens when I get behind. Ok on this day I think we took the Trolley to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Only some of us went though because most people didn't watch Mr. Rogers growing up and had no idea what that meant. I told you this was a young crew.

We had a nice breakfast today with many pastries and breads. The French are way better at baking than they are at making coffee. If they can just find a way to caffeinate their croissants then I’ll probably move here. It was a pretty long driving day. We stopped twice on the way to Paris but none of the stops are worth mentioning or photographing so I’ll just skip right to the action…

We got in around six and got settled before dinner at the hotel. Today was salad & quiche to start and chicken with gravy and vegetables (I think) and then lemon tart for dessert. It was one of the better meals we’ve had so I was throwing a lot of Merci’s around. Dominic told me to skip the R and just pronounce it “Meh – See” which seemed to work better. I don’t want to annoy any more waiters on this trip.

Afterwards we headed out to see some sights. First on the agenda was to climb the Eiffel Tower:

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It was overcast and had been drizzling so the top was closed but we were still able to make it pretty high. Paris has a height restriction on buildings in the center of the city (I think Greg said five stories) so even though we didn’t make it all the way up we still had great views, although a bit foggy.

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We left the Eiffel Tower around 10pm to see the “City of Lights” all lit up. We made a few photo stops but we mostly drove around on the coach because they wanted to show us as much of the city as possible. They did this for us in Rome also and it really helps with ideas and prioritizing for the next day since we are on our own and there are so many attractions to see. Here are a few more photos of the evening and then we went back to the hotel.

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It was Rachel’s birthday at midnight so we all had a drink with her at the hotel bar and then most people went to bed. A bunch of the guys stayed and we kicked it until pretty late which was cool because the trip was rapidly drawing to a close. Our night rapidly drew to a close also because someone brought up marriage. There are a few topics that are off-limits when having a guys night and marriage is one of them. Another one is Swarovski Crystals.

Later Day 14!

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