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Hello people on the internet. This is Stefan and I'm going to tell you about my time in France. Our cousins, Casey and William, met us there and we had a great time with them. We started off in Paris, where we saw the Eiffel Tower and the Mona Lisa, two very, very famous things. The Eiffel Tower is pretty cool and bigger than I thought it would be.
 
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, but a lot of people in Paris hated it because they thought it was big and ugly. When Paris got more advanced, they found out that it was a great place to put a radio tower, so that's what they did instead of tearing it down. The people of Paris, and the world, have loved it ever since. The Eiffel Tower is so big that it was the world's tallest structure until 1931. That's when the Empire State Building in New York was built.
 
We also saw the Mona Lisa, which is the very famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It was in a big crowded room with lots of paintings, but it was the one hung all by itself in the middle of the room with hundreds of people gathered around it. We got a good view. I was looking at it for a while and noticed that it was really pretty small. I was wondering why the most famous painting in the world was only the size of a cafeteria tray. Though it was small, it was still very pretty. I thought it was nice.

Hello everybody. I'm here in France, where we just arrived after being in the Seychelles. In case you didn't know, the Seychelles Islands are really hot this time of year and in Paris, it is pretty cold, so as you can imagine, we were really shocked when we got into the cold air.
 
In Paris, we met up with our cousins, Casey and William, who live in London. We went with them to the Louvre, a huge museum where the Mona Lisa is housed. We went through the Louvre until we saw a big room with a huge crowd of people inside, so we knew that was where the famous painting was. In the middle of the room is a huge wall that hangs this famous painting, the only one on the entire wall. There were a couple hundred people trying to see it at once. We eventually got to as close as you can get to the Mona Lisa, which is about 9 feet away since they have it roped off. It was very interesting to see since I had always heard about it and seen pictures of it in art classes. Now I finally got to see the real thing.
 

The next day we walked down the famous Champs de Elysees street to the Arc de Triomphe,which is a huge arch built to commemorate all of Napoleon's victories. It's a major landmark in Paris. It is in the middle of a major intersection and you have to walk underground to get to it. When we were leaving, it looked like they were starting a military ceremony in the middle of the arch to honor someone who died in battle. There was a big crowd around so we didn't see exactly who it was for, but we found out later that they do a ceremony there every night at the tomb of the unknown soldier, which is under the arch.
 
We left the Arc de Triomphe and took the Metro (which is the French subway) to the Eiffel Tower. I learned that the Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibit of Paris in 1889, which was a big Worlds Fair celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the French Revolution. It was supposed to be torn down after 20 years but instead it became a radio tower.