This was another early morning with a 7:00 am wake-up call. We enjoyed our FREE Hilton breakfast again. It wasn't as crowded this morning so I guess a lot of people checked out yesterday. After breakfast we had about an hour to rest up before heading out to the Rosga's hotel. We met up with them at 10:00 am at their hotel.
Today we did the Hop On Hop Off boat. There were 8 stops on the boat. We stayed on until the last stop and then got off. We had seen a Memorial to Princess Di and we wanted to see it. When we got off we had to walk past 3 bridges to get to it. I think it took us about 15 minutes to get there. The memorial was built at an intersection right on top of a tunnel so we are assuming this was the tunnel that she lost her life in. After looking at the memorial for about 5 minutes we decided to get a bite to eat. There was a little sidewalk cafe right across the street. After looking at the menu we decided to eat there. We were seated outside on these tiny tables. I had a sandwich, french fries and some type of chocolate dessert. The food was very good and the weather was wonderful!
After we finished lunch we went back to to our hotel and rested up for tonight and the Rosga's took off for a church that Pat wanted to see.
A driver picked us up at 5:40 pm for our dinner cruise and Moulin Rouge Show. We arrived to where the boat would be at 6:00 pm and the Rosga's were there waiting. The boat was to arrive at 6:30 pm so we were first in line. I wasn't sure how this would be because last night I read some reviews that were not too good. We were pleasantly surprised. The food was good and it was nice cruising down the Seine looking at the sights. We arrived back around 8:00 pm and our drivers were there to pick us up and take us to Moulin Rouge.
As a part of the Moulin Rouge we all were to get 1/2 bottle of champagne each. None of us really wanted champagne and we asked them if we could just have water. They looked at us like we had 3 heads. We finally settled on diet Pepsi and it tasted good. The show started at 9:00 pm and was over around 10:45 pm. The show was spectacular! I would highly recommend this show to anyone visiting Paris. It is kind of pricey but well worth it. The costumes were so colorful. They had many different acts -- one of which was a girl swimming with snakes! She had to wake one of them up for the performance.
Once the show was over our driver was there to carry us back to our hotel. We arrived back by 11:00 pm. Paris is coming to an end. We leave tomorrow morning for London which will be a busy day. We will be in London about 24 hours and we have 3 tours to do all tomorrow night. We will be exhausted but it will be worth it. This is my first time to be in London so I wanted to do all that was possible so we are really pushing it.
We will be picked up in the morning at 9:45 am to go to the train station. We are taking the fast train from Paris to London going through the Chunnel. This should be interesting -- the most interesting part will be getting our luggage on the train……..
One more thing I wanted to mention. You really need to read Pat's blog to get all of the history of the things we are seeing. She takes notes on everything we do and then can remember what to write when she does her blog. I try to read it every day so I can see what we did that I forgot about. I learn all sorts of things!
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