When Will woke up, I sent a txt to Millie to let them know we were on our way. We took the Metro from Repulique to Chatelet (down by the Louvre) and Will and I sat and waited by the fountain and had lunch. While we waited, a group of teenagers came along practising rollerblading in and out of cones.
Lou and Millie came along and we headed over Pont au Change to look at Sainte Chapelle and Notre Dame. The queues were really long for both so we all had lunch at the monument out the front of Notre Dame and decided to pick Sainte Chapelle while Millie went looking around the bookshops. Sainte Chapelle was very beautiful inside with 15 m high stain glass windows all around.
We went to Jardin de Luxembourg for a look around the gardens and to let Will have a play. We stopped at a café and had a beer then took Will to the area fenced off for infants. It had a little paddling pool and a couple of sand pits while Will enjoyed but he found it difficult talking to the French children.
The sun was starting to go down so we set off for the Eiffel Tower. We made our way to the tower and saw the really long queues. We decided that it was something that we could not miss so we joined the queue we thought was the shortest. Will had fallen asleep in the backpack just before we got there and woke up near the end of the queue so fortunately he was spared the hour and a half wait before we had even bought the tickets.
Eventually we made it up the tower to the second floor and it was worth the wait. We took some photos as the sun was still up and queued up again for the top of the tower. We made it to the top as the sun was setting and we took more photos of the lovely Parisian skylines and city lights. Absolutely magical.
We walked up through the Palais de Chaillot to Trocadero where we found a café and had a wine while listening to some typically French accordion music. There was a Metro line about 15 metres from where we were sitting so we caught that straight home and after Will had gone to bed, we packed up our gear and went to bed for the last time in France.
