Hello from Paris... Where do I begin? I met Michelle and Niki at the train station in Ottawa and the train pulled out about 2 minutes late... no big deal... The first picture is of us on the train... after a couple of trys with the flash thingy... my smile was worn out already... 
Then when we got to Montreal, all we had to do was catch the airport shuttle ... but that shuttle it turns out was out the train station, up 3 levels and around the corner. Then when the darn thing showed up, our "all included shuttle" ride was not valid and out we had to fork out an extra $26 if we wanted to make it to the airport in time. Time was getting short. But we made the airport and even the plane on time...
The next picture is us on the plane... duhhh I found my smile with about 2 hours of sleep it was now 10am local time.
Maybe it was the lack of sleep, but when we landed in Paris the terminal was soooooo small...
Boy do I miss my BlackBerry....
Anyway, we had to sit around and wait while the tour people organized our shuttles (code word for large vans which hold 9 people). Then it was off to drop everyone off in the van... opps need gas first... 2 here, 2 there... finally after about 2000 car accidents... horn honkings and fingers pointing to the clouds... we were dropped off at our place for the week.
Not a bad location. Close to everything. Of course the first order of business was to check the bed... since we had a studio apartment, we got a fold out couch for a bed... not bad... heavy duty... they must be used to having newlyweds like us staying...
Okay, enough you say... I don't believe your really there....
Well we decided that since there was still some light out... it was about 2pm local time. And since we had a kitchen in our room we went shopping for groceries. We did that, found a cute little shoppe just down the way... no big food chains here. We dumped off our bottles of wine, and bottles of wine, oh and cereal, milk and wine... and out to see the sights.
Didn't take us long before we tripped over the Louvre.
Then when we got to Montreal, all we had to do was catch the airport shuttle ... but that shuttle it turns out was out the train station, up 3 levels and around the corner. Then when the darn thing showed up, our "all included shuttle" ride was not valid and out we had to fork out an extra $26 if we wanted to make it to the airport in time. Time was getting short. But we made the airport and even the plane on time...
The next picture is us on the plane... duhhh I found my smile with about 2 hours of sleep it was now 10am local time.
Maybe it was the lack of sleep, but when we landed in Paris the terminal was soooooo small...
Boy do I miss my BlackBerry....
Anyway, we had to sit around and wait while the tour people organized our shuttles (code word for large vans which hold 9 people). Then it was off to drop everyone off in the van... opps need gas first... 2 here, 2 there... finally after about 2000 car accidents... horn honkings and fingers pointing to the clouds... we were dropped off at our place for the week.
Not a bad location. Close to everything. Of course the first order of business was to check the bed... since we had a studio apartment, we got a fold out couch for a bed... not bad... heavy duty... they must be used to having newlyweds like us staying...
Okay, enough you say... I don't believe your really there....
Well we decided that since there was still some light out... it was about 2pm local time. And since we had a kitchen in our room we went shopping for groceries. We did that, found a cute little shoppe just down the way... no big food chains here. We dumped off our bottles of wine, and bottles of wine, oh and cereal, milk and wine... and out to see the sights.
Didn't take us long before we tripped over the Louvre.
posted by miker at 9:42 PM (Paris Time)
<< Home