Finally in Paris!

Greetings from Paris! We arrived yesterday morning after spending the night on the plane. We tried to sleep, but it was too uncomfortable. I started to sleep, but woke up about 1 hour into the flight and got sick. Bleh! Rich said he didn't sleep much either. One nice thing about the new Northwest 330 airbus planes is the entertainment center on a screen on the back of the seat in front of you. There's a selection of music, movies, games, and a trivia game you can plan against others on the plane. That really helps pass the time. It'll help even more on the way back when you need to stay awake because it's a day flight. Last year I watched 3 movies on the way back.

Yesterday we crashed and took hard naps when we got to the apartment, which I've included pictures of above. After that we went out for a wonderful french lunch of crepes. For 9 euross each (about $12) we each had an entree crepe (I had egg/cheese/ham), and a dessert crepe (chocolate of course!) and a glass of pop. Later in the evening, around 9pm. we stopped at a local bar, sat outside and had a glass of wine with a basket of bread and cheese. The temperature dropped a lot, so it was very pleasant outside.

Today we got up around 9:30, and had breakfast of croissants and fresh pressed OJ from local stores. We got some extra croissants to freeze for tomorrow. Later we went to the Gallarie Layfayette's home store top store, which is like a big Pappa Joe's grocery store. For almost $100 we stocked up on some food....but not much for the price. After lunch of "jambon sandwiches" (their ham is our prosciutto) and Coca-cola light w/out caffeine. Their diet coke tastes more like coke, but it's not bad, and certainly nice to have something other than water, which I'm drinking a lot of. I seem to be very thirsty here. In fact, after a few samples in the store, I was very thirsty, so I opened a bottle of something that I think was a combination of O.J. and raspberry juice. It was quite good. After lunch it was time for more napping. Now we're going to go check out the price of renting bikes, or even possibly buying some for an evening bike ride.