My winter break europe trip part10

 

 December 28th 2022 Wednesday Paris


 Today we woke up and went straight to the Metro. in the Metro we scanned our tickets and went to our 

train platform. Then once we boarded the train we took it to Concorde  then from there we went to 

Champs-Elysees Clemenceau. After we disembarked we went to the Louvre Museum. Once we got there 

we had to wait in line for 30 minutes. On the outside of the museum it was like a square and in the middle 

there was a pyramid that was one of the entrances to the museum and the one we entered from. Our 

reservation was at 12:30 but we got in at 12:53. We showed our tickets and entered then we went to the 

tickets area. There we purchased tickets for three audio tracks for 5 years each. The man at the register 

gave us three tickets and we went upstairs to collect them. the audio tracks for downloaded on Nintendo 

3DS's! They showed highlights, where you are, a map of the museum, Where to return the device, and 

lastly of course they played the audio. once we got everything we started exploring the museum. While 

exploring we saw lots of displays these are some of them: a model of the whole museum grounds, and 

old-fashioned fireplace with carvings on top, two figurines of the god shu one miniature and one a little 

bigger, glass frogs of different sizes and colors and patterns, and marbles sphinxes. Once we were done 

with the museum we went back to the metro and caught a train. this time we were going to a river cruise. 

Once the train dropped us off we started towards the river cruise. on our way we stopped to eat linner(a
combination of lunch and dinner) I ordered a chocolate milkshake and spaghetti. after we ate we went to 

the river cruise. at the river cruise we had to wait 30 minutes while we were waiting we got to see the 

Eiffel Tower light up at 6:00. the boat was a double decker boat and so when we boarded we went up to 

the second level. after the boat cruise we got picked up by another train and went home.

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