Paris Day 1: Getting There

I didn’t really write anything about our last trip. But I was looking through the pictures from the flight over to Paris. It was a non- stop 9 and a half hour flight to the Paris from Salt Lake. We got in and seated and seemed so bright eyed and fresh.

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I was ready, and excited and had some fun books to read for the flight.

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We watched the sunset over the mountains.

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Flash forward a few hours, and we were trying to go to sleep.

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Right as I was falling asleep, they served dinner.

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We slept a while, a few hours I would guess. But as we went over Ireland, the turbulence was really bad, like really bad.

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There was no way to sleep anymore through that.

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Still trying to sleep.

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Off the coast of England there were grids of energy fans.

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We finally made it.

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It is terrible to get there, but I am so happy once I do.

After years of dreaming, months of begging Karl, and a long exhausting flight I was finally in Paris. I was SO excited and happy and just floating. That might have been the jet lag, but I am pretty sure it was what having a dream come true felt like.

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We took the train all the way into town got off at a shopping center. We drug our bags around the neighbor hood, and followed our map to our hotel.

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We passed the Center De Pompidou(!!!!!!!) on our walk there. We were just walking struggling to pull our luggage loudly across the cobblestone paths and suddenly there it was. I could have cried.

We walked another full block and were at our hotel. We could still see the top of the Center De Pompidou-I was just so happy. That dark wooden doorway in the entrance of our hotel.

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Our hotel was a little Boutique Hotel in the Mariais neighborhood in the 3rd district of the city. It is called the Hotel du Vieux Marais.

It was small, but cool. With a secret sliding door opened by the person at the desk.

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It is a 5 story building, with a spiral stair case, 4 rooms on each level, and a TINY elevator, just big enough for two people.

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Our room, on the top floor, #55.

IMG_0836.HEICWe threw our bags down, freshened up, and were off to see the city!

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