Today is Sunday May 30th and because I haven't had Internet access these last few days I have only been able to post pictures from my phone. We spent Thursday all day in Paris again, and took the touristy double decker bus to see all of the sites. We spent an hour at the Louvre and hit the highlights, the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo which was god enough with kids. We got to see Notre Dame Cathedral and went up inside the Arc deTriumphe. We could definitely come back and spend some more days here. We wanted to take a day trip to the Palace of Versailles but they happened to be on strike that day in protest of the government wanting to increase the age of retirement from 60 to 61. So hopefully when we are back in Paris next Saturday that is what we will do.
Friday morning we took an early flight to Venice, Italy. We took a water taxi straight through the canals to our hotel. What a great way to arrive! Venice is an amazing, charming city that seems just like it was hundreds of years ago. There are no cars,bikes, or scooters. You only get around by foot or boat. We had to take the gondola rides through the canals and spent to lazy days walking through shops, seeing the glass blowers make the famous Venetian glass and eaten pizza and Lots of ice cream!!
This morning we got our car and took off on the road to Pisa. It took us about 3 hours and here we are seeing the most famous architectural mistake-the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It is in a beautiful square surrounded by a magnificent church with manicured lawns. We had the kids sit for a pencil drawn portrait that turned out pretty neat. We decided to spend the night here instead of heading down to Florence! Which is only an hour a way or so. We will get up tomorrow and head that way. We are at an "American" style hotel tonight with wifi and English kids shows on TV. We had enough of the "old world charm" hotels we were in. Sometimes you need the conveniences of home!!!
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