AltoREReous Castellanus

Hi!

Wednesday we went to the Versailles palace (in Versailles) Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Louis XVII, and Marie-Antoinette were among the kings and queens who lived there. It was HUGE. Like, HUGE HUGE. Also grand. Look:

Tiny Golden Fat Babies

The Gardens

The Royal Hall of Mirrors

See? HUGE HUGE GRAND. Don't even ask about the «bébés minuscules en gras d'or.» The Hall of Mirrors glass is French glass. Not Czech. It's so pretty. Near the Grand and Petit Trianons, look:

At the Grand Trianon

Guarding the Grand Trianon

In the Roots

"In the Roots" is, literally, in the roots of a felled tree. You should see me "sleeping".

On the ride home, we took a RER-C, like we did to get there. Going to Brussels, we'll take a high-speed double-decker TGV. It should be fun. I hope my mom will make a more detailed follow-up. Note my quote format. Bye!

From Ally: just a quick note to say that I was able to finish up in the archives and meet them at Versailles in time to hear Seb make this alarming declaration: "Now I am getting a lot of ideas for how to decorate my room!"

Mimblewimbles on Thimbles

Mimblewimble.

If you enjoyed the photo album, yippee. This is Eli again and for some reason the "The Adventures of Sea Beast and Eli" is on blogger.fr but what I wrote this in is on blogger.com. Huh? Is "Mimblewimble" in red to you?

Today we went to the Cité des Sciences et de L'industrie. That's the Paris science museum. It was fun. I have plenty of stories about it today, including the long march back. We had crêpes and a RER-C metro trip on a double-decker!

First story: At the Cité des Sciences et de L'industrie, there's a motion-sensor airplane simulator that grades you like so:

Advanced Pilot: Successful landing
Basic Pilot: Bad landing
Reckless Pilot: Crash-landing or crash;

So, these three teenagers (always teenagers) were playing on the MSAS (as I will call it). They kept on getting "Basic" and "Reckless". I was next in line, and casually achieved an "Advanced". Two of the three teens had run off, so the remaining one went and told them. They came back and watched Sebbie flap his arms crazily and landed on the grass to get an "Advanced". The three teens decided the machine was broken and no-English-ignored me. Hey!

Then, the rocket thing where you choose the amount of water fuel-to-air ratio in a rocket and launch it. We thought at first 75%, then 25%, and, all percents, 30, 20, 18, 24, 70, 80, 90, and 75 were our guesses. It was fun; we won.

The march back was my dad taking us to a game store and walking us to a faraway crêpe shop. We got Limonades, crêpes, and pitchers (which Sebbie tried to drink from). We found a Metro 7, rode it to a 10, which we rode to that double-decker RER-C. Yay!

Up to Date and Sad to be Late Photo Album

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Entrance Guards of the Museum, 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, Musée de L'armée

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Armour Up!

Neapolitan's Tomb

"Scale" Model of a Cannon

Swinging in the Sun on Ropes, 15 rue Thomas Mann 75013 PARIS

Standing on Ropes in the "Sun", 15 rue Thomas Mann 75013 PARIS

The Eli-ffel Tower

Oh, this is Eli posting. I have been literate for seven years, thank you. Now it's my turn! 

The Eiffel Tower

Spiral- or not

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is very fun! Note that I saw it yesterday.

In the picture to the left, you can see, in the center, a small blue thing. That's a Euro 2016 TV and gathering area, complete with European "foot-ball" fans, cheering and yelling atrociously. Each level is different. Level one is basically a restaurant and an enclosure of glass. Level two is two observation decks, both outdoors, each with a view of all of Paris. Level two also includes eight elevators, four going to L1 next and four to L3.

Now, ecnetnes yreve fo srettel tsrif eht ot noitnetta yap, if you can read sdrawkcab. Level three is two observation decks, one indoors and one out, with the indoors and bottom one full of trivia. On the other hand, the top has a champagne restaurant. Some of you might think I sound like a commercial, but I'm not trying to. Either way, I'll show you this. Remember to look upwards. Spiral- or not says, "Regardez-moi!"

Now, the San Jose Sharks are _ _ _ _ _ _. The Penguins won the Cup.

Any way, we also went on a bike tour! Yay? Here, look:

Fat Tire Bike Tours Details

It was fun. The tour guide forgot Charles X and Louis XVIII. We learned about the "Church with the dome" and went to a restaurant in the rain. We learned not to learn from tour guides from my dad, and we... ate crêpes? Yum! Oh, and THERE ARE NO SWINGS AT OUR PLAYGROUND!!!!!!