It was during this time that we had our first travel "oops" of the trip - someone lost their camera. After all of the reminders to the girls about remembering to check and double check to make sure they don't lose anything, guess who lost their camera? I DID! Although I didn't realize it until a couple of hours down the road - but I left it sitting in the grass at that rest stop!
The good part is, all of the pictures have been downloaded, so there was only one on there for the day. The bad part? I'm left with a very so-so quality iPhone camera for the rest of the trip. Luckily the girls are also taking tons of pictures, so I'm sure we'll gather quite a collection. Unfortunately for the blog, you'll see picture quality suffer a little! Honestly though, I'd rather lose the camera than the phone!
Finally in the afternoon, we reached France's second largest city - Lyon. Lyon is a very old city, which got it's start originally when Julius Caesar came this way to conquer the Gauls. It's been through a lot in the past 2000 years, but has held up pretty well, and of course is full of medieval and Renaissance structures.
We stopped at the Basilica which overlooks the city and got the full view of Lyon.
Inside the Basilica we were quite surprised - we saw the same Gothic style architecture we have become accustomed to seeing in the cathedrals, but this one was also much fancier - decked out in gold leaf everywhere! As with all the cathedrals and churches we've seen, it was very awe-inspiring!
By the way, the Rhone River runs right through Lyon, so we walked across it to a restaurant called Flam and had dinner.
Although we didn't do too much sight seeing today, it's been a long day of travel, and we were all ready to relax this evening.
Tomorrow, we head to Provence - a very different part of France!
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