We're back!

We're back and adjusting to Matt starting another semester and me back at work. Paris was incredible and we had such a fun time. Thank you again to Chris and Nicole, Matt's sister and brother-in-law, took us all around and let us stay with them! We did so much, walked everywhere, and took SO many pictures so I'll do a couple of different posts to break it up.

We took off early on Sunday morning and flew all day to arrive in Paris about 7:30 the next morning. My co-workers fly a lot for work and they told me that if I give the flight attendant a box of chocolates and thank them for their service that they always get bumped up to first class. We tried it and all we got was a lousy thanks. Two sleeping pills, a couple of movies, and bad airplane food (that only Matt ate because I won't touch that poison)later we made it to Paris! Before we left Chris and Nicole gave us instructions on how to get our train ticket and money so that we could meet them at Notre Dame which was right by their apartment. With instructions and luggage in hand we set off to get our tickets. We were told to go to an ATM machine to get money first. No ATM in sight. The ticket machine only took coins and we just had bills (after we found the ATM machine an hour later) so we tried to find a change machine and found it was broken. After an hour and a half later of figuring things out we made it on the right train heading towards Notre Dame. For our entertainment on the way to our destination we got to hear an American couple in front of us have a full conversation about how bad this guy treats her and her adventures with her tattoo gun. Very interesting. After being 2 hours late meeting up with Chris and Nicole we made it and got to their place. The agenda for the day was an observation tour. We started at Notre Dame, walked up through a couple of parks to the Louvre, through another couple of beautiful parks, up Champs Elysee to the Arch de Triomphe and over to the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day and thrilling to see all of these sights.

We started here...Walked up to the Louvre.Saw my first Paris fashion. However, I don't think this will come to America anytime soon.Walked up and shopped along the Champs Elysees and took a few pictures in front of the Arch de Triomphe.And then came around a corner and saw this beauty. It's big in pictures but more breath taking in real life. How could a statue made out of just metal be so elegant and beautiful?There was a peace monument at the end of the park by the Eiffel Tower. Matt found his Korean pole.And of course we had to do a little of this in front of the Eiffel.
By the end of the first day we were exhausted! After watching some Samantha Brown on Paris we hit the sack and got ready for the next day.