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Summer 2026 Graduation Celebration: Edinburgh, London, Disneyland Paris, Paris - Day 13 Paris

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Our first activity for the day was a 10 AM timed entry reservation for the Musée d’Orsay. This absolutely stunning museum is housed in a former train station and is home to a large collection of impressionist artwork. There’s also a cool photo op in front of one of the clock faces of the former station. We went throughout the entire upper floor of impressionist art and then took a super quick spin through some of the other galleries. We left the museum and got some lunch nearby before taking the metro back to our apartment to relax before our afternoon activity. While at the apartment I noticed my Islander bag was having a little issue with the strap. All is well though because I reached out to Islander and they are shipping a new bag base to me so I can swap it out - what great customer service! After relaxing for a bit, we took the metro to Montmartre and had my favorite coffee we had in Paris. After coffee it was time to meet our guide for our afternoon activity: a walking tour of M...
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Summer 2026 Graduation Celebration: Edinburgh, London, Disneyland Paris, Paris - Day 12 Paris

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We were finally able to sleep in a bit and get a good night’s sleep. Roger and Emmaline got a little extra because I went ahead with Dru to take her bags to a luggage locker near Notre Dame before our day’s activities. That way she wouldn’t have to go all the way back to the AirBnB (which was slightly west of the city) before taking her train which would depart from a station slightly east of the city.  After securing the luggage, we met up with Emmaline and Roger for our 10 AM boat tour of the Canal Saint Martin and the Seine. This two hour took us through some of the older canals in the city, parts of them in underground tunnels, through several locks southward until we reached the level of the Seine, then we traveled west for awhile before turning back east and landing near Notre Dame. We all really enjoyed the tour, learning about the landmarks along the way. If you watched the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics you may have seen some of the boats that transported some of...
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Summer 2026 Graduation Celebration: Edinburgh, London, Disneyland Paris, Paris - Day 11 Versailles

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It was another slightly early morning, unfortunately, as all reluctantly got up and headed out to the train to Versailles. Roger had already been to the palace previously and was still exhausted so he opted to stay behind and catch up to us in the gardens after we toured the palace. We had the first entry time (9 AM) into the palace and rolled up pretty much right on time, which meant that the line was already insane. It took us about 20 minutes to get through the line for security and tickets. At around 11 AM we stumbled across a cafe and all three of us were like “YES PLEASE!” We sat down and rested our feet and had some coffees and snacks before venturing into the gardens.  We got a map and tried to orient ourselves which took us a bit. We thought we were on one section of the map, but then we came to the realization that the gardens were so much more massive than we realized and what we thought was about a quarter of the grounds we were looking at where only a teeeeeeny tiny li...
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