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Continue reading ‘Elephant, Up the Eiffel Tower’
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The Eiffel tower was made in memory of the French Revolution. Gustave Eiffel’s design was chosen out of 700 proposals that where submitted for a design competition. At 300 meters (320.75 m including antenna), and 7,000 tons, it was the world’s tallest building until 1930.
The moment we got to the Eiffel tower, I thought: That would be pretty cool to get pictures of Paris from up there. Not to mention even being up there. But unfortunately, the line seemed to stretch on forever. We didn’t go up that day. We went up that night. We stopped by that night, and only had to wait for about 2 minutes to get on the elevator. The elevator somehow was lifted by weights.
Glass windows were on all sides of the elevator, except the floor. It was crowded with tourists, but even so I got a video of us going up. Continue reading ‘The Eiffel tower’
Remember that movie with the rat who hates eating junk and wants to become a chef in Paris? Perhaps you need to see it! (here is the trailer) In the end of the movie, the little rat makes a special French country dish called “Ratatouille.” It is a real dish and looks just like it does in the movies. We ate it with a French family in their home for dinner! After the main dish our hosting family fed us Chocolate cake, as it was my brothers birthday, and we had sips of champaign (That’s European culture for ya ).
Currently my father is giving the head of the house a harmonica lesson while my sister is teaching Marion, our “Couch hostess”, the cup game. (Couch Hostess?? Check out how we roll, where we end up and why here) Continue reading ‘Ratatouille and “Happy Birthday” in French’