Paris I

Once we landed we got on our bus to Paris. John and I used Delilah to try and find our Hotel in Paris but only found one Meridian near the drop off point but not near where I had marked our Hotel on our map. We got off the bus and walked over to the hotel to check our baggage so we could start touring! Upon our arrival however, we were told this was the wrong Meridian, ours was across town! They allowed us to check our baggage anyway and we set off. John took the kids to Arc de Triumph and I set out to pick-up the Paris Visite passes I had purchased online. It gets you around Paris via the Metro, bus, or RER for two days. I paid my 1,50 and got on the metro. Ahh Paris! Now this transportation I can figure out! Now, for anyone traveling anywhere they are unfamiliar with there are two must haves in our opinion. 1. A trusty GPS system pre-loaded with maps for where you are going.
Andy & Michelle, we’ll be shipping Delilah to you for your Germany trip!
2. A handy pop-out map of the city you’ll be traveling around!

Our Paris version (we had Venice, Florence, Rome & Paris for this trip) has the metro map on it, essential to timely use of the metro!
Ok, maybe three things, our radios have proven a handy tool as well!
We met back at the wrong Meridian, gathered our luggage

and headed out to the correct Meridian hotel!

We checked-in, tidied our room and off we went. The weather was rainy but not too cold.
We didn’t mind the drizzle at all, fo’ shizzle! :-) We decided to do the Musee d’ Orsay, but when we got there we had missed the last entrance, 1 hour before closing. Again, be flexible or be broken. We decided go see the Statue of Liberty next. It was a picture of this statue from our, mine and John’s, first trip here in ’05 that grabbed Jarod’s attention. He’s loved the Statue of Liberty ever since!

The Eiffel tower is sooo gorgeous at night! We took the metro there and ended up somewhere John and I hadn’t seen before, it’s a beautiful view of the tower. Our plan was to go up in the Eiffel tower during the day so we headed towards Trocadero to get our first crepe and sit on the steps. John and I did this same thing when we were here. The banana and neutella crepe was just as fabulous as we remembered!

John was much obliging and set up the camera to take this pic of us. I absolutely LOVE it! Once back at the hotel, John ran to the grocery store and bought stuff to make sandwiches for dinner and lunch tomorrow. While eating we watched/snoozed through, The Pink Panther.