Ryan is taking French this year, and actually likes it and is doing really well so we definitely wanted to hit Paris with him. We had fun walking around and than bought our tickets to ride the elevator up to the top of the Eiffel tower. Ty was not happy about how high it went but was a good sport. We had an awesome guy who gave us all kinds of facts. He's been on all kinds of news shows due to his photographic memory and being able to remember EVERYTHING!!! We learned something we did not know about the MGM Grand. Several years ago you entered the hotel/casino by walking thru the mouth of the giant gold lion. after walking thru the mouth you followed the yellow brick road and you were greeted by the characters from the Wizard of Oz, even the flying monkeys! But soon the hotel realized they weren't getting any Chinese customers and discovered because it was considered bad luck to walk thru the lions mouth. Money won over and there was no longer an entrance thru a lions mouth! Did not know that!!! The elevator ride up was fast and we went really high!!! I actually felt slightly dizzy!!! Stepping out of the elevator at the top is quite windy and definitely colder than it was street level!!! The top was completely enclosed like a giant bird cage, so totally safe! ty did really good for being that high up. It was fun to look out over Vegas. They had given us this Ipad to use that showed on the screen what you would have seen if you were actually at the top of the REAL Eiffel Tower looking down. Really fun to see where all the French landmarks were as we looked out over Vegas, it gave you a faint feeling like you were really in France looking out when you looked at the ipad.
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