We have arrived!
(Monday October 19)
After flying all night Saturday (well, 5.5 hours of a night...) we left New York at 5:20pm, arriving in Paris at 6:00am. Yep, you read that right, we spent two nights in a row on airplanes. Yikes. It was pretty much as difficult as it sounds, though everyone managed to get some decent sleep the 2nd night, thankfully! After clearing customs without incident and collecting all our luggage (again, thankfully), we tracked down our missing shuttle driver (for the 2nd trip in a row, who also didn't have the carseats we reserved for the 2nd trip in a row...boo to supershuttle.fr) and arrived at our Paris apartment a little before 8am. Jenn's brother had taken a direct flight, and joined us a couple hours later, not having left Seattle until Sunday afternoon (lucky! But then again, he missed our NYC fun!)
We were immediately met by the nicest host one could ever hope to have in a rental. Raphael lives on the first floor and we are renting the second floor. We arrived at our lovely apartment to find the kitchen stocked with milk, eggs, butter, jam, orange juice, mustard, a bottle of wine, cereal, pasta, rice, sugar, coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and cereal. On the counter was a big platter of fresh fruit, and a fresh baguette and two sacs of little pastries picked up from the bakery that morning. Incredible and SO welcome! If you want to check out the place we're staying you can find it posted here.
After Doug arrived and we all got settled in (and showered!) Raphael took us on a walking tour of the neighborhood, pointing our good restaurants, the best market and the best bakery to frequent. We said "Merci" and left him to explore our little "quartier" on our own and found a little cafe for lunch, where Max promptly fell asleep on Jenn's lap and didn't eat a bite.
After filling our tummies we headed back to the apartment for a much-needed nap.
After filling our tummies we headed back to the apartment for a much-needed nap.
We slept a couple hours, then at about 4pm headed out to the Eiffel Tower. The crowds were crazy, so we didn't actually wrap up with the ticket line, elevator line for the first level, sightseeing and picture taking, elevator line for the top, more looking and picture taking, elevator line down to the 1st level, and elevator line to the ground until after 8pm!
We hit the market by our apartment on the way back and picked up some delicious meat, cheese, bread and wine and had a very late dinner at home.
We hit the market by our apartment on the way back and picked up some delicious meat, cheese, bread and wine and had a very late dinner at home.
Yum!
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