Bo Does Europe! - Day 1 and 2

Day 1 began at Detroit Metro Airport are 5pm. After that ensued a flight to La Guardia in New York, a shuttle to JFK, a plane to Heathrow, a number of terminal trams at Heathrow, and finally, a quick plane flight to Paris. Absolutely no wrinkles arose during the travel. Nothing was delayed, the flights were smooth, and the customs person in Paris didn't say a word, but rather passively stamped our passports without even looking at them.

Apparently, Parisian customs workers make Canadians seem paranoid.

While we were on the planes we managed to identify a number of famous landmarks from the air, including:

- The Empire State Building
- Windsor Castle
- The Eiffel Tower
- IKEA!

Here's the Handlers waiting outside Charles de Gaulle for the shuttle to their hotel (I wasn't allowed out of the bags yet).


Catching our second shuttle of the day, we were dropped off outside a hotel and directed to the entrance by our driver. Unfortunately, it was the wrong hotel, and we had to trudge up the street a bit to the next one. There, the very helpful desk lady (who apparently ws waiting for us), gave us keys without asking for any sort of check-in or credit card....once again, the French turn out to be strangely lax/accomodating.

Here's our lovely room.

That's seriously the entire room.

And this is the view from our window.

Handler 1 was....not overjoyed, to say the least, but a bit too tired to make a fuss.

After a much too brief nap, we all headed out to see one of the two sights of Paris that are open late. Here's a hint, it wasn't the Arc de Triomphe.

As is her wont, Handler 1 began taking about a billion photos to be able to prove that she had, in fact, been to Paris.

Big Eiffel Tower is Big.

The Handlers were starving, so they picked up some sandwiches from the little kiosks under the tower and proceeded to eat French baguettes on the lawn next to it. If that's not a prosperous opener to our French excursion, I don't know what is.

There was an adorable double-decker carousel near the base of the tower, and another one just across the Seine. As per the grandhandler's prior observations, carousels are just f-ing everywhere in Paris.

Periodiclly, the whole tower would light up like a twinkling Christmas tree and the hundreds of people gathered on the Champ de Mars to watch would clap.

After that, we made our way up into the tower and got a much closer look at the imposing structure.

Handler 2 was having a great time viewing Paris from above!

That was until he realized Handler 1 had purchased tickets to go all the way up.

Tomorrow we head off for Versailles. Let's see if the Handlers can navigate the French train system on very little sleep!