Say Yes To Adventure ✈️ This is our planned European Roadtrip 2,400 miles through 9 countries in 24 days.
We are on our way to Europe for the wedding of the year. So excited to visit 8 countries along the way, visit with friends and family, eat delicious food, see amazing sights and have the most fun road trippin’ around Europe. Giving the kids the world, one country at a time.
Our first stop in Paris was to Musée D’Orsay, it is inside an old railway station along the Seine River. It has huge clocks on the roof line overlooking the city. We wandered around there for 2 hours.
When you visit the Musée D’Orsay you have to take a clock pic!! It’d be rude not to! Through the clock you can see the Louvre Museum and the Seine River below. How crazy is that!? Paris is full of little gems like this.
Next up was a bite to eat in Cocorico’s, we bought an overpriced lock to attach to Lover’s Lock Bridge but the city has taken away all the panels of locks because they are too heavy for the bridge’s supports!! So we attached it to a light pole and called it good!
We wandered over to Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine. The most beautiful stained glass church you will ever see. Simply stunning.
Our final installment for our 1st day was Gelato & Notre-Dame!! We had the most delicious Gelato at Amarino’s, presented like a flower with a macaroon in the center…… so fancy and pretty I didn’t want to destroy it. But we did!!
We toured around Notre Dame church and lit some candles for those no longer with us. We climbed the 387 steps to the Bell Tower and were lucky enough to be up there when the bells rang out…… as you can imagine they were super loud but what a cool experience! When climbed to the roof of the south tower and had spectacular views of the city. The kids loved picking out their favorite gargoyles!
We survived driving around the city and safely made it back to Valerie & Phillips for a late dinner.
Day two in Paris involved checking out the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro and Ella’s dream came true….. brought a tear to my eye, not going to lie!!!
We spent the afternoon sailing up the Seine River checking all the sites out from the water. A little pit stop for lunch and it was Nutella Crepes for all!!
Then we did the Amazing Race equivalent of the fastest run through the craziness that is the Louvre Museum to find the main attraction – the Mona Lisa! We fought our way to the front to see her and took the obligatory pics as documentation of our visit!!! In and out in less than an hour because……. kids!!!!!
We continued our sightseeing with a hop on hop off top deck bus tour around the city, super informative and all the kids listened to the tour guide pointing out nuggets of information!
We finish off the evening by dropping the kids home to Valerie and Leif and I headed out for the evening………….
Our 15th Wedding Anniversary gift from Valerie & Phil was a sunset cruise dinner with Bateaux Mouches on the Seine while she babysat. Can you say romantic. It was an amazing evening with delicious food & wine, wonderful music, fabulous sights and the Eiffel came alive and sparkled for us as we sailed past. It was truly spectacular. Spoiled kids!!
Day 3 in Paris brought us to new heights!! We went to the 59th floor of Montparnasse Tower’s roof top to check out the 360 degree views of the city. The interactive screens informed us of all the sights in front of us.
We then went to Choco-Story Museum of Chocolate!! This was hands down the kids’ most favorite museum in Paris!! It described the history of chocolate and had a demonstration but most amazingly it had ALL YOU CAN EAT CHOCOLATE!!! I didn’t think it was possible that they could eat too much chocolate but they did!!!
We then ventured to Moulin Rouge and caught the Tram up the cobblestone road to Montmartre and explored the little markets and stores along the streets.
We visited Sacre Coeur Basilica and left a prayer request on the alter of the beautiful church high above the city.
We came home and enjoyed birthday celebrations with Paella, champagne and some red wine picked out for us by a wine connoisseur in Montmartre!
A 4th Day of playing tourist was spent at Auvers-sur-Oise where Vincent Van Gogh lived and died and retraced his steps finding the inspiration for some of his paintings. It was a quiet little town where somethings have remained unchanged in 100+ years
We are saying goodbye and closing out the trip of a lifetime. Lots of memories made with friends and family, experiences had, delicious food & drink consumed. Europe you have been amazing, we will be back.
