Mont St. Michel and Normandy

Bright and early today we rented a car for a day trip - 4 hours to the coast to see the Mont Saint Michel Abbey. Everything about it is exceptionally cool - it was built on top of a rock 80 meters above sea level (more stairs!) in 708 A.D. Very Harry Potter / Diagon Alley - like! Our visit coincided with one of their highest tides (after each full and new moon) which surrounds the Mont with water.

Then we drove over to "Bloody" Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery in Normandy, which Greg and Chris especially liked. Reading the headstones, the kids found Lots of servicemen named Charlie, James, William and Robert.

Our GPS, who had been good to us all day, decided Greg was ready to drive through the center of Paris. It worked out quite nicely (for the passengers) - giving us an evening tour of all the sites: Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, tunnel where Princess Di died, etc.