Spring Break (Paris part 1)

So this is at least a month overdue and all of the fabulous things we did and saw aren't quite as fresh in my memory but I figured I would write a few funny stories and travel tips down from our spring break adventure. Jim and I decided to plan a pretty ambitious spring break/1 year anniversary trip to Paris and London almost right after we got back from Europe last summer. I'm not sure that we will ever have quite an adventurous anniversary again but it was wonderful.

Here is Part 1 of a Paris Recap....

We started our adventure by arriving around 6:30 am at Charles de Gaulle airport being packed into a bus like Sardines to take us from our plane to the terminal to collect our bags. Once we picked those up we headed to the train station and took a train to the city where we then transferred to the metro that took us to the Jardin de Tuileries station (the same station that KC and I used to get to and from our hotel 7 years earlier).

Here are KC and I on that spring break trip in March of 2005  

The trip downtown wasn't bad at all and our hotel was in an awesome location right across from the garden with views of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. We stayed at the Westin and I would highly recommend it if you have the money or in our case the hotel points. Some of the Starwood hotels around the world allow people to use a combination of hotel points and cash per night and that is what we did (there has to be some benefit of Jim traveling so much right??). The food at the hotel was awesome and the staff was really nice. Anyways Jim used some sort of upgrade thing he had from being such a frequent traveler and therefore this is the view we had from our hotel room....

Needless to say I don't think this would ever happen again so I soaked it up by staring out the window as much as possible especially when it sparkles at night every hour on the hour for 5 minutes... it is probably one of my favorite things to see in the whole world. 

Here it is at night from our room but it's not sparkling. 

So after wandering around for a little while after unpacking some stuff in our room we were exhausted!! We grabbed a bite to eat and decided that instead of taking an afternoon nap we would just turn in early and hopefully sleep through the night. I was pretty skeptical  because if we fell asleep at 4:30 and slept until the next morning it would be almost 15 hours... I decided that we might as well give it a try since I didn't sleep at all on the plane and and we'd been up and traveling for way more than 24 hours.... and guess what... it worked! We slept until about 11:00 were up for an hour then fell back asleep until about 7:30 the next morning and we were set for the rest of the trip! So we did miss out on an evening of wandering the city but we were so refreshed and ready for the rest of the jam packed sightseeing days that the rest of the week had in store!  Ok I will recap the rest of the trip with more pictures in my next post :)