Friturday

Friday and Saturday have merged into Friturday in my mind. Overnight flights can do that to you.

The flight: Huge Boeing 777 and I was dead center in the back. yay...not. the guy on my left was an american businessman who only spoke enlgish but thought the flight attendants only spoke french. the guy on my right was a french businessman who only spoke french but thought the flight attendants only spoke english. they speak both of course so this provided some amusement. I was very cramped, but well entertained. they had these in flight entertainment system things in the back on the headrest in front of you and you could watch movies or tv or listen to music or play games even. I watched charlie and the chocolate factory, pocahontas, and an episode of Les Experts (CSI with french voice overs). did not really sleep though I did try.

Met up with Olesya at the airport and we grabbed a taxi to our hotel. the driver was very nice and showed us everything. cheap too. we split it so it was only 25 each. our room is TINY though. and our bath room is hysterically small. You have to open the door to brush your teeth. and you can't turn around in the shower. oh well.

This brings us to Day 1 in Paris. Went to the Eiffel Tower first of course. Gorgeous but very very very crowded. Lots of pictures. We didn't go up because the lines were worse than an amusement park. Then we went in search of lunch which was hard to find, but delicious. Pizza place. Les Invalides was cool. Didn't bother going in to see the tomb. Apparently we didn't miss much. The we went to the Arc de Triomphe. Very cool. Champs Elysees was also pretty sweet. Oh Champs Elysees...da da de da da...

Anyway, then we went to Notre Dame de Paris (soooooooooo impressive) and Saint Chapelle. Then we went back to the hotel and met up with the group. Duffy took us to Montparnesse and it was so awesome. Seriously great views of all of Paris. Definitely worth doing. After that we went to dinner (crepes). *whew* What a day!

Please feel free to read my next post: Funday.