This week we drove down to the Loire Valley where there are so many chateaux (castles and really big houses). We saw so many beautiful chateaux. One chateau had 440 rooms. It was huge. It also had a staircase that was two spiral staircases wrapped together going opposite ways (like DNA). Matthew went up one side and I went the other, and you couldn't see each other. It was amazing. (Leonardo Da Vinci designed the staircase).
Leonardo was a famous Italian man that lived a long time ago, (nearly 500 years ago). He painted the Mona Lisa and many other paintings, but he also invented many things. One of the chateaux we visited had many of his inventions, both in little models to look at, and life size ones in the gardens. He invented different types of bridges, early machine guns and an armoured tank, and even designed flying machines, like a glider and an air balloon.
After we had seen lots of chateaux, we went to a museum of magic, where there were magic tricks, puppets and a stage show, and dragons that came out of the windows every hour. These chess pieces were huge. When you looked through a special window at the pieces, your face appeared on the black square on the chess pieces. Very cool.
But the best part of our week was going back to Paris and visiting Eurodisney. Disneyland in Paris. We had heaps of rides and went up a huge tree house. We also saw a stunt car show where the cars and motorbikes drove up ramps and went into the air. Lightning McQueen came on stage and did some car tricks too.
We had a great week. We are now going to Germany, where they speak German. I have to start learning some German words now.
So au revoir. Have a great holiday, and you can hear more of our trip when you come back to school.
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