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http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?feat=tags&psc=G&filter=1&tags=france#5300299187511070322

I chose the picture of the Eiffel Tower (making sure I was spelling "eiffel" correctly :) )

Have you seen the Eiffel Tower? I couldn't believe it was so big, or gigantic would be a better word. Coming from the plains, I had seen big oil derricks, or even the towers at oil refineries, so that was my assumption about the Eiffel Tower. What was amazing to me was that there was a large parking lot between the "legs" of the tower.

Our daughter had a Frence pen pal....and her parents owned a little bistro a block or two from the Eiffel Tower. They lived "above the store." But she had never gone to the top of the tower, even though she told us she could see the lights from her bedroom window.