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  Bacharach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Monday, September 22, 2008

The last day of or tour is here. A little bitter sweet that our adventure is coming to an end but it is time. This morning we are going to The Luovre and free time and then a final dinner with the group.
We get to the .Metro and it is packed! Barely fit in and are squished in worse than sardines. When we get off one of the tour members said he was pickpocketed by someone who was talking to him. But the pickpocket went away empty handed as we have all been wearing our money belts, especially on the subways. On to the Louvre we go, our last museum.
We see the famous glass pyramid in the center of the courtyard. We will be hitting the highlights of this museum, it is so large. It was a 16th century place and houses the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Michaelangelo statues and tons of paintings. We had a local guide take us around which was good. There were so many people there....I swear 3/4 were Japanese/Chinese. They all want to have their picture taken in front of everything and they like to move as a group! No separating them! So it was a little trying at our final museum of the trip. The rest of the afternoon is ours. We do a little shopping/looking at all the souveniour shops outside the Louvre and head back to the hotel. Steve takes a nap (big surprise) and Tamara and I go to the Eiffel Tower so she can take some pictures. They will be leaving on Saturday. We also go to the site where Napolean is buried and walk around the gardens. Time for our own nap before dinner.
The last group dinner.......we had a choice of starter, main course, and desert...my choices French Onion Soup, Salmon and Creme Brule. The French Onion soup was so good it could be a meal on its own. The rest of the meal was good also. As a group we walk to the Eiffel Tower. In the evening the tower is light up blue and then starting at 9pm till midnight on the hour it sparkles with white lights for about 10 minutes. Very pretty....hope my pictures will do it justice. Jennifer says some final words about what a great group we have been, we have a toast, and the goodbyes start. When we were in Germany we had a group picture taken with the Neuschwanstein Castle in the background and she made a copy for everyone and gave us a Eiffel Tower key chain. The hugs begin :( I try to escape the majority but got caught in 5 and these from people I probably won't talk to again! We will say goodbye to Doug and Tamara tomorrow.....will probably keepin contact with them.
That's the end of our tour....it was well worth it to have a guide and your schedule set for us for this first trip to Europe. Three weeks is a ling time but for what all we wanted to see it was perfect. We are already planning our next tour.....so many to choose from!!!
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