Paris -Tuesday

My first full day in Paris

 

 

1. Eiffel Tower
2. Playing in the mist
3. Science Museum

 

 

Eiffel Tower

As I was walking down to the ONE-THOUSAND foot tall Eiffel Tower dad told me something really interesting: “Do you know what Gustave Eiffel designed?” “Yeah, the Eiffel Tower” I replied. “And the Statue of Liberty” he said, and do you know what he didn't design. “No” I said. “The Eiffel Tower” dad answered. When we finally got there we stared up at its amazingness. “It probably took one hundred years to build” I thought. It actually took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to build. I looked it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking up the Eiffel Tower wasn't as hard as you think it might be. It took about five minutes per one-hundred steps and there were 670 steps in total. So all in all it took 33 minutes and 30 seconds. I was amazed at how fast I could climb it, I thought it would take at least an hour.

 

 

 

SO CLOSE......1 more step to go

 

 

 

 

When you are beneath the Eiffel Tower it seems much bigger than 32400 cm. My first thoughts of the Eiffel Tower were huge, zig zagged & strait. After that amazing experience we decided to go to the Dynamo Museum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing in the mist

On the way to the Science Museum which is called the "Palais de la decouvert", we discovered that right outside there was a dry ice mist coming out of a fountain.

It was kinda strange to be in it.

We walked in but couldn't see the ground. Which was not so good seeing as it was slippery mud. I know this because......

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zoe and I pretended to be Zombies then we made our way to the museum entrance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Science Museum

The museum looked a bit like a temple or palace. It had columns and very high domed observatory ceilings. Not at all like Scitech back home.

There was a huge planetarium but we didn't go in because it had an hours lecture in French.

Unfortunately a lot of the exhibits were in French but a few had English as well.

Some of my favourite exhibits were the pendulum that dropped sand out of the bottom (see photo), the illusions for example when you spin a wheel with lots of colours it became white. I understood that one because white is really a mixture of all the colours of the rainbow put together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also saw the last bit of the frog and toad lecture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bye for now

 

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