So I'll tell you about the things we did in Paris since I last blogged but today is a VERY special day. Why is that? Well we have been in England for a couple of nights now and today was the royal wedding!! Now, I really couldn't care less about the royal family and I'm Aussie so I have no reason to care at all but England was soooooooo hyped up about this wedding! People had been camping out on the route from Kate's hotel to the Abbey for days! It was unbelievable! We are staying with mums second cousins and his family in Pelsal (not far from Birmingham) and we've been party of a (very small in the sceme of things) street-party. We watched the wedding on TV and then came out into the street and had a bbq for lunch and stuff. Watching it on TV though was incredible. The amount of people just waiting outside for a small glipms was mind-blowing. Watching them all surging behind the police line towards the Palace.... When we visit London in a few days it going to be amazing visiting Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace and just thinking only a few days ago there were thousands of people here and Kate and Wills got married.....
Anyway enough of that because I'm probably boring you guys to death!
Things we did in Paris since I last wrote...
We visited the Lourve which was alright but the Mona Lisa isn't really that spectacular, I thought, and that was kind of the main thing to see.
We also visited the Musee De L'Orangerie which I LOVED :) It has Monets waterlillys in 2 big oval room and they are really calming and there are quite a few other paintings by artists like Picasso and stuff.
We visited Sacre Coeur whic is quite a stunning and lovely church.
We made a stop of at Angelina's for the Worlds Best Hot Chocolate.... SO GOOOD!
And we made a visit to Disneyland where the little girl came out of me a little when I ensisted we go on at least a few of the rides in the "FantasyLand" section :) Oh, and then I went and bought some MiniMouse ears :) Space Mountain is AMAZING though :) The only bad part of the day was when we were on the metro on the way home and the power to the train line we were on went out literally a couple of hundred meters from our station and we had to wait 20 mins at about 11 at night with Ben....... not fun.
I think that was just about everything we did in Paris and then on Wednesday we caught the train from Paris to London and then on to iringham and got picked up by Graham and Colin (Graham is my mums 2nd cousin and Colin is his dad). So we are staying with Graham, his wife Estellle and their 2 boys Nathan and Jacob. Nathan is Bens age and Ben went to school with him yesterday. While ben was at school, Graham, Estelle, Mum, Dad, Joel and I went and had a picnic in a park. Then Mum and Estelle had to pick up the boys from school but there was a high ropes course there so Graham, Dad, Joel and I had a go on it. I was really fun except when you finished one part you had to slide down a zip wire to get to the ground and on to the next stage but if you didn't come in facing forward then you were garentied to be covered in Tambark! I managed to land forwards the last 2 times but dad got COVERED in tambark on the very last zip wire :P LOL! We got certificates from the guys at the end and dad's said "Andy the Aussie".
Everyone here is really nice. The accent's a tad hard at times and I'm not completely sure that Jacob can understand anything we're saying :P We have 2 more nights here (including tonight) before we head to Cambridge for 2 nights with dads work collegues and then down to London for another 5 nights there.
I hope that everything is well in Mebourne and GO SAINTERS !!!!! :) (nobody has any clue about AFL over here :P)
Love, Kisses and Hugs,
Emma xxxxxx
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