Time to head home! We woke up early for our last breakfast at Le Grand Hotel des Gobelins, which of course we enjoyed. We saw the mom with the little girl for the last time, and once again the guy had trouble understanding my "41 and 42" room numbers. I successfully conducted several transactions each day in France, but for some reason I could NOT get them to understand our room numbers! After we ate, we went back upstairs to finish packing, then took all of ...

Today, we had another nice breakfast at our hotel, and then hit the metro towards Versailles. We chatted with our desk clerk first, and she gave us some good information about how to get to the airport tomorrow; the RoissyBus sounds pretty good. It's almost the same price as the metro/train combo, but deposits you closer to the airport terminal. We bought RER C tickets at Gare d'Austerlitz, and sat on the platform for about 20 minutes, then we were off. We got se...

This morning we enjoyed a delicious breakfast at our hotel. We had our choice of: croissant, baguettes, yogurt, fruit, jam, preserved fruit, fruit salad, ham, cheeses, meats, cereals, juices, milk, and coffee. There was a different breakfast lady, and she got very excited when a little baby came in. After breakfast, we bought one day passes for the metro, hoping to save our feet a bit today. Victoria chose the Louvre first, so we started there. We entered ...

We got up early to finish packing and arrive early at the train to Paris. Since we are travelling with Hedge, we arrived about two hours early and chilled in the station. We shopped for lunch at Marks & Spencer - everyone got a sandwich and a treat and we shared some fruit. We boarded the train, and it was pretty low key when we went through the tunnel; we didn't even know it! We heard an announcement that they were selling the Paris Museum passes in car ...

This morning we started at the Museum of Natural History, and it's in a really beautiful building. We stumbled upon a side entrance, which was lucky since the lines were much shorter to get in. We took an escalator into the center of the Earth, and that wing did feel as hot as the center of the Earth! First time we've been hot since we left Texas! The rest of the museum was better, though. There's a little miniature Japanese market you can go in and experien...