Paris Part One

Alrighty so Paris has been amazing!!! But more on that a little later. Anyway, the first day I was freaking out because I had to get a train to Vienna, a bus to the airport and then a plane to Paris. None of the websites made it out to be as completely easy as it was! I had no trouble, and the guy at the security saw my Canada shirt and said “Canada is excellent” and pointed to the Canadian pin he was wearing! Met with C and S (some of my friends from Calgary) and we went to the hostel. We went to the most amazing bakery just down the street from the hostel, but that is all that I can say that was good about it and so we booked ourselves into a hotel near the airport, and get this it has a towel heater!!!!  We also walked around the Eiffel Tower on our first day here. It is freaking amazing.

Day two was better, cause we’d slept a whole lot. We had a slowish start to the morning, but once we made it into the city it was amazing. We went to the Champs D’Elysee and had breakfast from a Christmas market. The lady was wonderful because she took my French/German in stride and then answered all of our questions in English! I say French/German because I can’t seem to speak French without some German sneaking in any more, oops. J We walked up the Champs D’Elysee to see L’Arc de Triomphe, which was only slighty amazing, and we also stopped at the Macaroons store that a friend of C&S told us we had to go to. We were going to walk to the train station and get to the Louvre fast, but unfortunately the ticket system for the metro is ridiculous here and we couldn’t get back on, so we walked! I remember the walk being a lot longer, but I think that is also because we didn’t have the markets to look at as we went. By the time we got to the Louvre we were all ready to see the paintings and sculptures. If you remember there was this whole crazy business about my residence permit earlier on this year, and for the first time it came in handy. (Yes I realize that me not getting kicked out of Austria is helpful, but this is better) You get free entry to the Louvre if you are between an EU resident, with a card!!

Day Three we went to Disneyland. After the first real sit down breakfast (which we missed by an hour, but they still served us like it was all open, so we didn’t know till after we’d eaten) we got to the airport to catch the Disney shuttle! (The joy of having a hotel right near the airport). It was completely awesome. We went to Frontierland, and let me tell you that the Haunted Mansion isn’t quite as scary when you don’t know what they are saying! But the rest of the park was amazing. They made it snow on command! (Ok they were bubbles, but it looked like snow!!!!) We had a great time and Disney is of course Disney with all of the amazingness and details and just everything!!

I’ll do another post with pictures when I get home.  Merry Christmas everyone, I hope everyone’s having a great time!

Tiny & Teddy