France

Last Week we went to France. We drove our car onto a train in England, then sat in the car inside the train which took us under the English channel, when we drove off and we were in France!
The next day we went to the Palace of Versailles which was home of the French Kings and Queens in Paris. We saw the Kings and Queens bedrooms. Hundreds of years ago there was a law that the Queen had to give birth in front of 200 strangers in her room, which is a similar size to our classroom. Marie Antoinette the last Queen of France was squashed so much by all the people that she changed the law after her first child.
The next day we visited the Arc de Triomphe, walked down the Champs Elysees a famous Paris street to the Louvre the museum that holds the Mona Lisa. Next we went to the Eiffel Tower. We climbed about 700 steps up to the second floor then caught the lift to the very top, because you are not allowed to climb any further.
The next day we visited Notre Dame Cathedral which is 850 years old. Then we went for a long Parisian lunch and ate snails which were surprisingly nice.
On our last day we visited the Paris Catacombs. This is where the bones from over 6 million people have been stored in the limestone quarry passage ways that run underneath the streets of Paris. They moved all the bones here over 200 years ago when the cemeteries were over flowing and people were getting sick from the bodies that hadn't been buried properly. 
While we were in France we ate lots of baguettes (French bread), croissants, pain au chocolat and patisserie cakes which are amazing. Oh yeah and those snails!
We stayed with my Mums cousin Sean and his family who live there.

 Collecting fresh bread from the boulangerie (bakery). Mum made me buy it in French

 The Chapel inside the Palace of Varsailles

 The Queens bedroom where the 200 people squashed in.

 The Arc de Triomphe

 Holding up the pyramid at the Lourve

 Outside the Eiffel Tower

 At the top of the Eiffel tower with a view of the river Seine

 At the top of the Eiffel tower with a view of the Arc de Triomphe

 Outside Notre Dame Cathedral

 Waiting for the Metro. The underground trains in Paris

 Examining my snail before I eat it

 Yum Yum

 Underground at the catacombs. The sign above the door reads "Stop, This here is the empire of the dead"

 Inside the catacombs. The photos are dark because you aren't allowed to use the flash on the camera down here.