Day 11 of Europe- Paris

 Day 11 of #gainesgeauxoverthepond Bonjour Paris! What fun we had today. We loved Paris! What a city full of colorful people and literally a surprise at every turn. We started our morning with figuring out the metro system. Then it was on to tour the Arc de Triomphe and yay more stairs. We loved the view from the top. We explored more of the city and made our baking class at Miss Manon Bakery… we made baguettes and croissants! Avery’s day was complete with a macaroon purchase and ice cream from Amorino which she saw on a YouTube video. We tried to play a Russian roulette kind of game with dinner where we boarded the metro and just randomly got off and tried to see what we could find… well that took an interesting turn when we got off right in the middle of a protest with what I can only described is every French national guard officer out in full force… it was like a scene from a movie…. I mean full swat gear. Every police van lining every street… and I still felt safer than getting gas in Baton Rouge 🫣

Day 10 of Europe

Day 10 of #gainesgeauxoverthepond today was a day. We have not had any issues with driving and I wouldn’t even call today an issue bc my hubs handled it like a champ. We made an impromptu stop at Versailles after lunch and then put our Airbnb into Waze and selected a route on the outside of Paris but something happened and it took us straight through the middle of Paris! I was about in tears. We finally made it and the car is safety parked in the garage and will stay there until we leave. After a grocery store stop… which honestly is an outing in itself bc they are huge and have so much interesting stuff 🤣

Day 9 of Europe

 Day 9 of #gainesgeauxoverthepond we arrived at St. Mont Michel this morning. We had early tickets to tour the Abbey so we dropped off our bag at the hotel first thing. I’m glad I had early morning tickets bc by lunch time it was REAL peoplely. After a quick lunch we all decided we had to escape the crowds so we went out to explore outside the island. We walked, climbed, traversed the entire thing. We treasure hunted and found several interesting pieces of pottery, shells, iron pieces. While we walked the inside of the island I snapped a picture of what I thought looked like cute windows and what actually turned out to be the windows for our hotel room!  We checked into the hotel and we all took a NAP! Sooo many stairs!

Day 8 of Europe

 Day 8 of #gainesgeauxoverthepond we started our morning with a stop to view the artificial harbor in Arromanches-les-Bains and then onto view the German guns at Longues-sur-Mer. We had a quick picnic lunch before heading to our Airbnb number 4 for check in. We are staying in a Hobbit House handcrafted by Jean-Luc who spoke zero English but thank you Lord for google translate. We decided spur of the moment to travel to St. Malo for dinner. It surely did not disappoint! It was just like I imagined after the book All the Light You Cannot See. Avery and I collected some sea glass from the beach after dinner. We are loving every minute in the French countryside.