Paris day one.

So today was interesting....we landed in Chicago (where it was icy and we got a little squilly when we landed...scary) at 5:00 and had time to get off the plane grab some pretzels and board our next plane! The ride to paris was good but super crammed, definitely upgrading to business class on the way back (two recliner seats together with your own comforter and a 20inch tv). That landing was also scary, apparently not scary enought to wake me up, but landing in 30mph wind didn't sound like it would be fun! After finally getting a ride from the airport we got to our hotel and were lucky to be able to check into a room at 11! We freshened up and headed out to get our paris pass. Since our paris pass included a metro card we didn't want to pay for another to get us to where we needed to get our paris pass, so we decided to walk.  Huge mistake. With a city not being in a grid, and my iPhone not saying you are here was hard :/ took us like 30minutes...and let's be honest it was kody who got us there! When we got there we found out the closest bus stop for the hop on and off tour was at the louvre. So after another 20 minute walk we got there and decided to see the louvre today! 

It was a two hour adventure of getting lost in the sculpture section, being let down by how small the Mona Lisa was, and finding paintings that would probably take up the whole outside wall of my house ( and the people in the painting were bigger than me....well that's not saying much, they were bigger than your average person!!) But, we had a ton of fun and killed our feet all at the same time! We headed to the hop on and off tour, sat on top of the bus and just rode around paris, taking in the beauty of everything....included the 4 story Louis Vuitton that I was not able to go in....today :). We saw the arc de triomph, and the Eiffel Tower, but won't be going to the top of either of those till the next couple of days! After that we decided we were too tired to go on and had a full day ahead of us tomorrow! So we sat down at this small pizza place had dinner and headed back to the hotel! Now I'm cuddled up in bed ready to get a real full night sleep and watch shrek 3....in French. 

More to come tomorrow! Sleep tight, 

Jo and Ko