Paris--Day 1

The weekend before last, we took the students to Paris for a 3 1/2 day trip as part of their orientation to France. We left on Thursday morning early, early, early--I think we met at the train station at 6:45am! As you might imagine, the students weren't too happy about it, but it gave us a lot more time in Paris. We dropped all of our stuff off at the hostel, regrouped, and headed into the city for lunch and an afternoon at the Louvre.

We scattered in the Latin Quarter for lunch, and Ian, Sophie and I grabbed lunch at a sandwich/crepe shop and ate our lunch on the steps by the Seine. Here is Sophie eating her first professionally-made crepe of Nutella and bananas. (Of course, Daddy and I had to make the sacrifice to help her eat the gigantic crepe!)

After lunch, we walked down to the water's edge, where Sophie so naturally posed for the camera. (I had nothing to do with her pose...apparently Paris turned her into a supermodel!)

A view of Notre Dame on a beautiful fall day:

After lunch, we all headed to the Louvre. The original plan was for Sophie and I to head back to the hostel so Sophie could take a nap, but I really wanted to go to the Louvre, so we skipped the nap.

But Sophie had other plans. About 15 minutes into the Louvre, Sophie passed out. She didn't wake up until we were about to leave! She missed the entire museum.

Here is a picture of the wall of rules for the Louvre, which I think that between Ian and I, we broke about half of them!

During the visit, all of us split up to do our own thing. When we all met back up, Sophie wanted to sit on the wall like the big kids. Luckily, all of the students are very nice and tolerant of her attraction to them.

And late that afternoon, we headed back to the hostel, where we had pizza at a local restaurant, and then Ian was sucked into Sophie's recent favorite game, playing ghost: