Our route. By bus. That's a LOT of land.



The green fields of France. Note, that this is Christmas Day. We spent the entire day on the bus.



The next morning for some early sightseeing. That is of course the Notre Dame. We didn't get to go inside, unfortunately. But still pretty on the outside.



Do I even have to tell you what this is?



Up close to the Eiffel Tower.



From on top of the Eiffel Tower. A view of Paris.



The Statue of Liberty in Paris. Remember that the French gave it to the Americans! Though the French one is smaller.



And my favourite! The palace of Versailles! I couldn't capture it all with my camera, but I defintely took the most pictures here. There was so much to see.







Every ceiling had a picture like this. Every inch was decorated, or painted somehow. Everything to make the palace was made in France. Even the marble. They created whole companies just to manufacture the materials needed to build the place.



One of the King Louis (14th? Or 15th?) as Caeser.







The above is a portrait of Marie Antoinette, and her children. I don't know if you can see, but the empty cradle represents her stillbirth. The one revealing the cradle is her only son, who died at the age of seven during the revolution.



The Hall of Mirrors.



A view of the palace from one of the windows.



The table where the treaty of Versailles was signed.



Me in front of the palace! Yay!





The Eiffel Tower at night. It was glittering and changing colour. I took this from the river cruise we did at night.

And that's about it. Our flight back was long and terrible. We were supposed to go from Paris to Chicago, and then from there to Halifax, but, with the whole bomber scare, the flight was more than 2 hours delayed going out of Paris, and they personally searched EVERY PERSON going to the US. There was 200 people on each plane going out. And there were at least three leaving at the same time.

After that 9 hour flight, we were super jetlaged. We got to Chicago and discovered that our flight to Halifax had been cancelled, and it had been canceled for the past three days due to "weather", even though there was barely any snow in Halifax. We think it was to get more staff to search people at the airports. So we negotiated (since they wouldn't pay for our hotel) an overnight flight to Montreal, and then one to Halifax.

We had to sleep in the airport. It was not fun. I have pictures of that too.

I was happy to get home and sleep. It takes a long time to recover from things like that. I didn't leave the house for like a week!