After a nice hotel mini buffet breakfast, we boarded the local Metro and changed at a station for the Eiffel Tower stop.When we got off the subway, we walked to the location of the boat cruise on the Seine for a one hour narrated trip on the river. It was very interesting and a lovely morning to cruising outside. The boat rode by many of the same spots that we had seen on our bus tour of the city but from a completely different perspective. We had bot realized that there were so many bridges and so much boat activity on the Seine.When we got off the boat, we walked over to the Eiffel Tower to see it from the ground as the other view we had gotten was from the double decker bus. We were taken back with the enormity of this structure, something that we had never realized from the pictures we had seen. It is a massive architectual wonder with it iron work and rivets soaring skyward.
We walked to the Metro station and navigated our way to the military museum house in Les Invalides. This large building houses all of the weapons and splendor of the French throughout history. From there we walked a few blocks to the Rodin Museum to see the masterpieces in sculpture done by this artist, including the famous Thinker statue.
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| Statue of Liberty in Luxembourg Gardens |
We were tired by this time in the day so we worked our way back through the Metro transfers and returned to our hotel neighborhood where we bought a small baguette and some drinks for our dinner in our room. Later in the evening we walked our neighbor and bought another of the wonderfully delicious frozen delights that the French are so famous for and watched the late Saturday night diners in the streetside cafes.
You should see Donna running up and down the stairs to the subway. She is a real trooper , just like someone half her age.
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