@ Paris : Travel Day

July 31st, 2007

Ok so to start from the beginning, we went out with Nathan and Sherri Walker on Sunday night and didn’t get to bed until about 2am Monday morning. We had to be at the airport at 6am so that made for a very short nights sleep. We boarded our plane in Boise and flew directly to Atlanta where we had a short lay over and boarded our plane for Paris.

I’ve never flown over an ocean before and was kind of freeked out by the idea of seeing nothing but water in any direction I looked. But it was really quite beautiful, there was a full moon and we could see forever. The plane was huge and everyone had their own little tv screen for playing games, watching movies, or tv. I watched 4 movies during the trip. This helped with the fact that the emergency exit rows we requested were switched for rows that had been made smaller to compensate for the restroom. I was so very cramped. I watched “Hot Fuzz”, “Disturbia”, “Land of Women”, and “Fantastic 4″. Good times.

After arriving in Paris we discovered that one of our bags didn’t make it on that flight so we had to wait for it to arrive on the next flight. Lucky for us our driver didn’t have anything else to do so waited for us. We ended up getting to our hotel about 3 hours later than expected.

We then set out to find the Louvre I tried to find it in reference to our hotel on google maps but google didn’t place our hotel in the right spot so we couldn’t tell where we were exactly. Then we tried finding the building that is right outside our window. We couldn’t seem to find it on the map where we thought it should have been either. We decided to just go look for the Louvre and see what happens. Come to find out the building right outside our hotel room window is…. The Louvre. Boy did we feel stupid. We will be spending a large portion of tomorrow there, at least that is the plan.

We wandered around for a while looking for dinner and finally decided on a small cafe in the park area by the Louvre. It was good. I took several photos already and the up on flickr so check them out.

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