Finally after several weeks of working and being lazy, I am back in the swing of things around the house and here are some of the highlights of the past week or so: Thanksgiving with the family was pretty good. Everyone enjoyed the trip photos, though I think they were having trouble staying awake through all 500 or so photos. The food was good and…
November 29, 2007It has been a few days since I made it home from Europe, and to be honest, i have been super busy. I only had one full day off before I returned to work, but I think it turned out for the best. I think I am more jet-lagged from this trip than I have been, probably due to the fact I was gone for…
November 18, 2007For the last time, we awoke in Europe and got ready to head back to the United States. Our plan was to be at Paddington Station around 9am in order to get to Heathrow by 9:40 to check in two hours ahead of time. While we were getting ready, I checked American Airlines’ web site to confirm that we still had an on-time departure as…
November 14, 2007Today was our last day on the continent and Daniel and I decided to make it a relaxing day. We slept in until almost 9 – I slept in just a bit more as Daniel began to pack. We showered and packed our things and made our way downstairs one last time. Checking out of the hotel, there was some confusion with how much we…
November 12, 2007It is Remembrance Day in France and we set out at 9:30 to meet Jonathan at the queue for the Tour Eiffel. At the time, we had no idea it was Remembrance Day until we had a look at the Arc de Triomphe from the top of the tower and noticed that the circle around it was blocked off and there were military people everywhere.…
November 11, 2007The alarm went off way too early after the night of song and dance. With the theme song from the Moulin Rouge still echoing in my head, We headed downstairs to meet Jonathan. He had trekked all the way from his apartment to our hotel to meet us. We grabbed some Parisian Pastries and headed off to the catacombs of Paris. My first thought was…
November 10, 2007After being worn out for the past few days, Daniel and I tried to sleep in a bit again and got a late start. We headed out to Tour Eiffel and found the queue to get up into the tower was over an hour long. Not wanting to waste precious time with it, we were satisfied with some snaps of the overall tower and then…
November 9, 2007Today was kickback day. Daniel and I slept in until 10 am and then headed out to the parks for a leisurely day of riding attractions and shopping. Of course, no trip to Paris would be complete without some sort of mysterious downtime of the Metro system. Today, it was the RER system which was shut down between Opera and Nation stations, which meant in…
November 9, 2007Like two kids in the candy store, we are having the time of our lives on a tour of Disneyland Paris
November 7, 2007Up before the sun, Daniel and I navigated the Paris Metro and RER systems and headed out to Parcs Disneyland. We were there to meet Tom, a member of the DLRP cast who I met two years ago as they were training on Buzz Lightyear. Tom had promised to show me around the parks when I made it to Paris, so after exchanging some emails,…
November 7, 2007