Well, sorry I haven't posted for a while, but at the moment I'm still recovering from jetlag so at about 5 o'clock I just collapse on the couch and sleep for the rest of the night - getting up for dinner.

In the past few days we have seen sooo many things - not to mention all the walking, I am definaltely not going to gain weight on this trip - and you all know how fast my Dad walks! We have gone inside Notre Dame, which, incidentally looks almost exactly like Moria in the Lord of the Rings - very cool. I have taken to wearing my hair in a kind of French twist and wearing perfume - just to get that Parisian feeling. Anyway Notre Dame was very grand, with lots of gargoyles, I love gargoyes, and tourists. I hate to think how busy it would be in Summer or Spring. We also visited the Sainte Chapelle, which is a little chapel with walls almost entirely in stained glass, it was beautiful, even the floor had elaborate designs. It was like being inside one of those gilded eggs.

We finally went inside the famous Paris Opera house (or Palais Garnier), it has a really huge sweeping staircase, and millions of chandeliers and mirrors - perfect for the Phantom of the Opera -muahaha... We took millions of photos again - I'm already up to 487! Then we caught the metro to the Arc de Triomphe. We climbed the Arc de Triomphe and watched the chaos of the drivers, with only one lonely policeman trying to keep them in order, and the lights of the Champs Elysees.

Dad's glasses broke so yesterday morning we frantically tried to get them either fixed or buy an affordable pair - not easy in Paris where every optometrist has gucci, dior and chanel glasses. In the end we got them fixed and then we caught the train to Versailles. Ahhh, Versailles, room after after room of gilding, paintings, elaborate furniture, huge windows, more chandaleirs - it was enormous and beautiful. It is so easy to imagine ladies in enormous rustling dresses sweeping past or parading in the formal gardens.

This morning we are getting ready to leave Paris for a cute little cottage in Normandy which doesn't have internet access so I don't know when I will next update, or find out my VCE results (not that I want to!). So Au revoir for now.