Honeymoon Recap

Our honeymoon was, overall, a huge adventure!

We were in a country where we did not speak the language and then we were in a country that we felt was difficult to maneuver.

We really learned the train system in Switzerland and it is really easy to use!

If we were to backpack through the Alps again, I would have made more plans for accommodations and I would have liked to have spent more time in the smaller towns so we could leave our things there and hike around and train back in we had to.

The Parisians were very nice to us because Rich spoke French to us and we did our best to stay under the radar :-)

We still laugh that Paris is supposed to be the city of love, the most romantic city. The entire time we were there is was hot hot hot, we didn't even hold hands until the evening of the last night!

We ate a lot of carbs and not a lot of veggies!

We are glad that we did the big city of Paris so when we go back we can do the country side and the southern part!

We had the best time and cannot wait to go back!

Honeymoon: Day 14

We woke up late again and decided to head to Versailles, Paris and get out of the city for a break.

We got there and waited in a ridiculous long line, got our tickets and waited in another ridiculous long line.

We took a tour of the Palace. It was beautiful!  There is so much history!

We walked through all of the rooms and enjoyed most of all the famous Hall of Mirrors.

Hall of Mirrors

We took the tour for about an hour and started speeding through it and made our way outside on to the grounds.

The grass was green, the flowers were blooming, everything was magical!

The Gardens

All of the crazy tree shapes

 We walked around the gardens for a bit then headed back to the train station and back to Paris for a fancy dinner. This night happened to be our 1 month anniversary so we decided to splurge on a nice dinner with all of the cliche Parisian Courses :-)

We ordered wine, had escargot, creme brulee and ccafe au lait.  It was marvelous! We sat on the street and people watched and took our time eating!

Some tasty wine!

Escargot

Creme Brulee

We made our way back to the hotel, got our packs packed because we left the next day :-(

Honeymoon: Day 13

We woke up way late from being out late the night before and we walked down to the corner bakery and had chocolate croissants! Sooooooo tasty!

We headed to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. It is much smaller that you would think it would be.... We pretty much powered through the museum just to see it and stopped at a few other key art pieces and got out of there. I love museums and I could spend hours and hours in them and Rich is not the biggest fan, so we didn't spend too much time in each one.

From the Louvre, we stopped at a little cafe and had some lunch and then headed over to Notre Dame.  We quickly went through the cathedral because there were millions of people in there!

After Notre Dame, we went to the Army Museum and saw Napoleon's Tomb. That was really cool!

We went to dinner and had amazing food! Rich had beef tar tar and I had lamb! Oh. My. Gosh. It was to die for!!

And to end the night, with the sun still shining at 9pm, we went to the Arc de Triumph. We were able to see it right as the sun was setting, it was gorgeous!

We ended up taking a taxi back to the hotel and we stopped at a restaurant in the square that our hotel was in and had some wine and cheese. It was so sweet and romantic! 

Honeymoon: Day 12

We woke up early to take the TGV from Lausanne, Switzerland to Paris, France. 

Rich has not taken the bullet train before, so it was exciting for him! It took us about 3.5 hours to get to Paris.

 Again, we had a lot of trouble finding our hotel. Rich speaks French and was trying to get directions and no one could help us! It was so frustrating!

We finally walked by some friendly tourists who could tell we were lost and she let us look at her map.  We found our hotel and we were disappointed to find that we were staying in kind of a dumpy place...oh well!

We dropped our stuff off and headed down to all of the attractions.

We walked in the gardens of the Louvre and then near the Army Museum. We were both hot, thirsty and hungry and, I will admit, a bit cranky so we stopped in at the first place we saw and had dinner. We both enjoyed big salads with lots of veggies! (We have since recreated the nicoise salad that Rich had at this restaurant and it was delicious!)

Sadly, my camera battery died, so we had to go back to the hotel and get Rich's camera and we went back out and decided to go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower.  We got there right before the lights were turned on, it was beautiful!

We finally got to go up to the top around 10:30/11pm. Lets just say it was a late night, we were both exhausted and needing some personal space, which you won't get if you go to the Eiffel Tower.  We got down from the top after midnight, after all of the trains that would take us back to our hotel has stopped running. So we started walking...it was a nightmare. I had been on m feet all day so my knee was torturing me....fortunately, after stopping several taxi cabs with no avail, a man stopped and was willing to take us to our hotel!

We just fell right in to bed and slept through the morning, waking up at 10:30am! Definitely a change from the entire trip!