My winter break europe trip part11

 

December 29th 2022 Thursday Paris


Today we woke up at 9:30 which is our regular time. Then after we got ready we went downstairs for 

breakfast. After breakfast at around 10:30 when we went back upstairs in our room my mom read a book,
my dad worked on his computer, and I translated mine and my friend's name into different languages. 

At about 12:00 we decided to step out so at 1:00 we took the elevator down to the ground floor. Once we 

got out of the hotel my dad said that he downloaded a PDF of a tour of a part of Paris called montmartre. 

On the tour we walked through some of the streets of Paris and we even got to see the apartment where 

the artist van Gogh stayed with his brother from the outside. We also got to see the restaurant La Maison 

Rose(which is seen in murder she wrote). The restaurant is believed to have first became famous because

of the artist Utrillo’s paintings. For lunch we ate crepes, my dad had a chicken and cheese and egg crepe, 

my mom had a Nutella banana crepe, and I had a chocolate one but me and my dad kind of switched 

because I liked his better.  Once we had finished eating we went to see a cathedral. We went inside and 

there were paper models and from the outside we could see a good amount of the city. Once we got home,

I wrote in my journal, at around 8:00 we went to dinner and an Indian restaurant then to bed. 

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