Paris day 2. September 22nd (yes yes I'm behind on my blogging!) Today we had a full day planned of sight seeing which included navigating Paris mass transit! Luckily Tony is an excellent navigator, I would be lost without him (in more ways than one!) Our experiences with transit up to this point had demonstrated that before each stop a lovely voice comes over the loud speaker and tells you the name of the upcoming stop, and along the way there are warnings, suc...

Paris day 1 We checked into our Paris hotel, took a nap, then walked around the neighborhood, which is called Monteparnasse. We ended up stopping at a French restaurant and I had another embarrassing encounter trying to speak French. The restaurant staff greeted us with bonsoir!...except I couldn't remember what that meant and panicked so I just smiled and kept walking. Luckily Tony reciprocated their greeting, which means good evening by the way. Duh. We were s...

Well we left London today but I'll give a recap of our last day. We started out with breakfast, which is free in our hotel. They offer two breakfasts, English Breakfast and Continental Breakfast. English breakfast consists of an egg, either scrambled or poached, sausage, bacon, grilled tomato, and baked beans. Continental breakfast consists of your choice of corn flakes, fruit and fiber (raisin bran), or Meusli. But just in case you didn't have enough fiber with...

Wow this trip has been a whirlwind so far! I'll try to be as descriptive and brief as possible! The awesomeness started with our flight. We upgraded to business class and had seats that faced each other, and could lay down flat. However, when we loaded onto the plane we saw a pair of seats next to each other that were open. We asked the flight attendant if we could move there and in true British accommodating fashion they allowed it! So we got to sit side by si...