nycdisneygal
I went ahead and signed up for another kid!
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2010
Day 1 June 14, Friday
We were so happy that our flight was not cancelled (air traffic control strike in paris, bad weather expected in NY area) and we arrived in paris at about 11 am!! We were exhausted. We cleared passport control quickly-the guy did not even look at our passport- and got our luggage. Now, I knew that there was a tourist info spot in the airport that I could get our museum passes but could not find it. Finally we were close to exiting for a taxi and I saw a sign for it!! I waited in line as the people in fron of me had no idea what they needed, were asking where their taxi was (?!?!) , etc. Finally it was my turn and I asked for 3 adult 4 day museum only passes (kids under 18 are free!!!!). The nice lady said you know these are not valid for the Eiffel Tower. Yes I know--I already bought those tickets months ago!
So we went to the taxi line, on the way many people apprached us and asked if we wanted a taxi "Non, merci" I replied firmly. We waited in a short line and soon were on our way!!
We finally got to our apartment. I left DH and DD in front of the building with the luggage while Dsis and I went to get the keys from the office. It was just about less than 1 block away but we had to climb 5 sets of stairs to get to the key box. When I got there I was shaking from being hungry and tired. When we entered the building we saw the elevator was TINY. So I went up with some luggage and the others walked up to the 7th floor! We were exhausted. The apartment was cute. Tiny but thats how it is in europe!! It was perfect for us. We freshened up and then went looking for lunch! I had seen there was a place near us in one of the guides so we started walking that way. The building numbers were not going down fast enough so we finally figured it was too far and wanted something close (we found the place later that day it was about 2 blocks further). We saw a cute place with a windmill. The menu looked ok so we decided to go in. We ordered our food and hungrily ate the delicious bread they gave us. And drank a lot of water (we always ordered tap water). DH's meal came a little later than the rest of ours and they were apologetic but it didnt bother us as DH ate some of DD's food (and she ate some of mine!). We decided that we would look for dessert elsewhere and asked for the check (l'addition). Another waitress came and told us that the chef would like to offer us dessert. That was so nice! I think he had felt bad about DH's food being so late. So we had a delicious dessert and then Dsis and I asked for coffee. We heard the chef say something about coffee to the waitress. DH paid the check while I took C to the TINY bathroom. When we got back I realized they had not charged us for the coffee! I asked and they said no its on them. There is no place to add a tip when you pay by card but we wanted to leave something so we got change from the waitress and left her a nice tip.
We then walked up a hill to Sacre Couer! We walked along an adorable (but touristy ) street called Rue Norvins. We walked through Sacre Coeur.
It was very nice but there was a service going on. Outside Sacre Coeur is a nice view of Paris
and then we noticed-- we had a nice view of the Eiffel Tower from there too! YAY! We headed back down the hill and got gelato and went back to the apartment to look up where the grocery store was. At the store we got milk, juice, eggs, yogurt and bananas and as we walked back to the apartment we stopped for cheese and baguette!
Since we were all tired, we showered, had some yogurt bread and cheese (the cheese was soooo stinky and soooo strong!) and went to sleep.
Up next: First full day, saturday at the louvre!
We were so happy that our flight was not cancelled (air traffic control strike in paris, bad weather expected in NY area) and we arrived in paris at about 11 am!! We were exhausted. We cleared passport control quickly-the guy did not even look at our passport- and got our luggage. Now, I knew that there was a tourist info spot in the airport that I could get our museum passes but could not find it. Finally we were close to exiting for a taxi and I saw a sign for it!! I waited in line as the people in fron of me had no idea what they needed, were asking where their taxi was (?!?!) , etc. Finally it was my turn and I asked for 3 adult 4 day museum only passes (kids under 18 are free!!!!). The nice lady said you know these are not valid for the Eiffel Tower. Yes I know--I already bought those tickets months ago!
So we went to the taxi line, on the way many people apprached us and asked if we wanted a taxi "Non, merci" I replied firmly. We waited in a short line and soon were on our way!!
We finally got to our apartment. I left DH and DD in front of the building with the luggage while Dsis and I went to get the keys from the office. It was just about less than 1 block away but we had to climb 5 sets of stairs to get to the key box. When I got there I was shaking from being hungry and tired. When we entered the building we saw the elevator was TINY. So I went up with some luggage and the others walked up to the 7th floor! We were exhausted. The apartment was cute. Tiny but thats how it is in europe!! It was perfect for us. We freshened up and then went looking for lunch! I had seen there was a place near us in one of the guides so we started walking that way. The building numbers were not going down fast enough so we finally figured it was too far and wanted something close (we found the place later that day it was about 2 blocks further). We saw a cute place with a windmill. The menu looked ok so we decided to go in. We ordered our food and hungrily ate the delicious bread they gave us. And drank a lot of water (we always ordered tap water). DH's meal came a little later than the rest of ours and they were apologetic but it didnt bother us as DH ate some of DD's food (and she ate some of mine!). We decided that we would look for dessert elsewhere and asked for the check (l'addition). Another waitress came and told us that the chef would like to offer us dessert. That was so nice! I think he had felt bad about DH's food being so late. So we had a delicious dessert and then Dsis and I asked for coffee. We heard the chef say something about coffee to the waitress. DH paid the check while I took C to the TINY bathroom. When we got back I realized they had not charged us for the coffee! I asked and they said no its on them. There is no place to add a tip when you pay by card but we wanted to leave something so we got change from the waitress and left her a nice tip.
We then walked up a hill to Sacre Couer! We walked along an adorable (but touristy ) street called Rue Norvins. We walked through Sacre Coeur.
It was very nice but there was a service going on. Outside Sacre Coeur is a nice view of Paris
and then we noticed-- we had a nice view of the Eiffel Tower from there too! YAY! We headed back down the hill and got gelato and went back to the apartment to look up where the grocery store was. At the store we got milk, juice, eggs, yogurt and bananas and as we walked back to the apartment we stopped for cheese and baguette!
Since we were all tired, we showered, had some yogurt bread and cheese (the cheese was soooo stinky and soooo strong!) and went to sleep.
Up next: First full day, saturday at the louvre!
