Stranded in Paris !!!!!!

I'm still alive.

 

And, as you can guess from the title,

we got caught up in the

Air Traffic Controllers strike

 in France.

 

But, on the bright side,

our 6 day break to Paris

 became a 10 day break!!!!

 

Sadly, however,

 I missed my

Dad's 80th Birthday.

We should have been home the

 day before it, but.....

 

So, Belated Happy 80th

 to my

Beautiful Dad.

 

 

Now, the rest of this post

is pretty picture heavy,

but oh my, what a beautiful

 city Paris is. So much to do

 - and boy, were my feet

 sore at the end of each day!!!!

 

So, here are a few!!! of

 the many pictures hubby

and I took on our

extended stay in Paris...

 

 

 

First photo,

 One of the two Fountains

 at Place de la Concorde

 (where Anne Hathaway throws her

mobile phone in "The Devil Wears Prada"

 - love that movie...lol)

 

 

The Louvre

Pont Alexandre III

 

 The most ornate and gorgeous

bridge in Paris,

 finished in 1900.

Bicycle ride through the city.

 With somebody else doing

 the legwork....

Inside the Opera House

Stunning

The Moulin Rouge

Dinner and the show

 - fabulous

Halfway up the Eiffel Tower!!

Attaching a padlock at the top

 of the Eiffel Tower.

 

I threw the keys in the Seine

when we went for a river cruise....

The Statue of Liberty

 

A 37ft exact replica

of the one the French gave to the USA.

 

The Paris statue faces her

 much larger sister in New York Harbour.

It has been my life's ambition

 (well, since the age of about 12)

 to see the Statue of Liberty in New York.

I will one day......

So, this was pretty special to me....

Place de la Concorde, again.

The inverted pyramid at the Louvre.

 

We stood in front of THE "Mona Lisa" "Winged Victory" and "Venus de Milo" not to mention hundreds of other priceless pieces of art

The gargoyles on top of Notre Dame Cathedral - home of Quasimodo....

The Arc de Triomph

Chateau de Versailles

Stunning

A wee, tiny bit of the gardens at Versailles

Joan of Arc on horseback

Dinner at the Eiffel Tower,

 on what was supposed to

 be our last night in Paris.....

With our unexpected extra

 four days in Paris we

 went to Disneyland Paris.

It poured the whole day

 - can't have it all.....

I found Liberty here too....lol

So, we're finally home

and catching up with stuff

 and I'm frantically trying

 to get my DT layout

 done for SOUS on time....

 

Watch this space.

 

Hugs