Monday, July 12, 2010.

Blog test:

We arrive in Paris 30 minutes ahead of schedule.
Uneventful flight and the girls actually slept for much of it!
CDG is empty. The new AF terminal open, clean and deserted.
Our bags are the first ones off.

Taxi to hotel. Seems like the longest trip (about 60 minutes) but we get stuck in traffic leaving the airport. Several police cars with sirens on zoom past but we never see the incident.
Sarah doesn't throw up. Which is good.

Into hotel (RC). Sky is cloudy but air is warm and no rain. One room is ready so we all crash for a couple of hours then venture out for some lunch. It's breakfast for the girls since they slept through the plane breakfast service. It is 4pm.

We find a cafe on Rue Buci (market is closed today) but sit inside due to them multitude of smokers outside-is the law that you can't smoke INSIDE a restaurant but you can still smoke OUTSIDE? It's not Santa Monica, we all acknowledge. We all have salads (except Em who has her smoked salmon plate with toast-which of course makes for a desperate hunt for water about an hour later). After lunch we wander the area, see Rue Universite and Rue Jacob and other familiar spots. A lot of people out and most stores are having their July sales (SOLDES). We pass the Medical School and there are people gathered outside with name tags. It is a neurology conference. We don't stay although it could be tax deductible. Guess not.

We head back to the hotel after a couple of hours. The girls will say we got lost and fumbled our way back to Rue Christine...and maybe we did. But we found it and promptly went back to sleep. It's now 8:30pm and we are considering an outing for dinner. Thinking of looking for that crepe place nearby.