London/Paris, day seven….
Still in catch up mode, so this post covers Sunday when we said goodbye to London and hello to Paris. Not much actually happened, since part of the day was taken up by the train ride and the rest I spent asleep. I mentioned this yesterday that I came down with a head cold that knocked me out on Sunday. I managed to make it to the train and fell asleep almost immediately. I woke up about 20 minutes outside of Paris, completely missing the tunnel under the channel that I was so looking forward to seeing.
We actually cleared customs while in London, so exiting the train station was super simple. We did get caught behind this crazy mob, which we finally figured out were all waiting for some French celebrity to leave the first class train car, once that was finished, we got out to the taxis. Rosie decided to skip trying to figure the Metro in Paris, so we got a cab to the hotel and checked in. At that point I crashed again and am not entirely sure what Isaac and Rosie did. I know Rosie went exploring, since she brought back water with her. I missed lunch, so I was getting pretty hungry come dinner time, so we went to a ramen noodle place just down the block from the hotel. The noodles were good, but not as good as the ramen place we go to in Bellevue.
Here are a couple pictures I took when we wondered around the neighborhood the first time. The one thing you notice is the lights and colors at night are just amazing.
This is the view out of our window and yes, that purple color is exactly how it looks.
And yes, there is a Starbucks just two blocks from our hotel. This might be my favorite one so far, I think I like the buildings here better than in London. Now I just wish they could figure out how to make a BTL correctly….