Je reviens
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by Thing One
Click to view slide show from Thing One's Paris trip (Quicktime, 22MB)
This is just a sampling of the many, many photos Thing One was able to take before his camera broke. Visit the Gimlet Gallery for your own virtual tour through the City of Lights and the Loire Valley.
To get to Paris we had to fly on two planes. The first flight was from Seattle to Atlanta, and from Atlanta we flew to Paris. We left Seattle at noon on the 25th, and when we arrived in Paris it was about 9:30 am on the morning of the 26th. We stayed in the Hotel Princesse Caroline which is in the 17th arrondissement and very close to the Arc de Triomphe.
After unpacking, we toured the Champs Élysées. I had lunch at a place called Pomme De Pain. Then we rode Le Metro to Montmarte to see the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur.
There were lots of street performers there and we saw lots of tourists falling for a trick: a guy would come up to a tourist with a piece of string and ask him if he wanted to see a trick, then tie the string on the tourist’s wrist. When the tourist couldn’t get the string off his wrist, the guy would make the tourist pay for his string.
On the way, we went past Moulin Rouge (which is very different from the Red Mill at home), and also past Les Deux Moulins, where Amélie was filmed. We rode the Metro back to our hotel and ate dinner at the restaurant Chez Clément.
Saturday was divided between a bus tour around Paris and exploring the city on our own.
When Bopa visited Paris just before 
We have a lot of catching up to do, and we’ll try our best to get to it all while Thing One is away on his latest adventure: a Spring Break trip in Paris with the school’s French classes and French club. This is Thing One’s third year studying French and it has always been one of his favorite subjects.
The rest of Team Gimlet is trying not to be too nervous about sending Thing One halfway across the world. We keep reminding ourselves that he did quite well on his own last summer. We hope he will take lots of pictures and have many stories to tell when he returns! Meanwhile, watch for new posts about Thing One’s Court of Honor, the family reunion, and anything else we’ve missed.
