Paris Day 2 (picking mom up)

We got up and planned to leave our ridiculously expensive hotel in "hooker-ville". We thought we had to pick mom up at the airport at 6 that night so we were taking our time, so we were goig to do laundry. We' were like half packed when I decided to check what time mom's flight came in. Holy crap it was landing in 15 minutes at 10 am not 6 pm, and we were no where near the airport. We frantically packed the rest and checked out. The train ride their seemed to take forever, and there was 2 stops at the airport and we didn't know which to use. We got there about 10 minutes late, but then we got trapped in the train station. Our metro passes would not let us out, because we were in a different zone. So we were looking for a machine to buy tickets so that we could use gem to get out, but there was none there, we literally could not get through, I even tried to squeeze. I yelled at some lady who was in a uniform for help but she ignored me. Finally we looked at all the gates and one was green, it was broken, and it let us through, that was another 5 minutes.

So now in the airport, we had to find mom , so we found an arrivals board, crap her flight was 10 minutes early. Terminal 2 and we were in terminal 3, we did stop too early, so we got onto another transfer train that took us to the right place another 10 minutes. We then dashed to terminal 2A which took another 10 minutes. Finally we found her waiting patiently, looking like she was on the verge of panicking but she had only been waiting 20 minutes or so.

We later rationalized why we thought the flight was at 6 pm. At home i had of an appointment in my calender for 10am, but here the time change is 8 hours (what do you know). So when I adjusted my time zone, it changed all he appointments too.

Thank God I checked that email that morning.

So we came back into Paris, found our room a few blocks away, but definitely more respectable, but couldn't check in quite yet. So we took mom to . . . wait for it . . . a laundry matt! We had laundry to do and it was close. Half way through mom and I checked into the room and I left her so she could have a small nap and went back to amber.

After mom rested a bit, we hit the metro and went to concord square. This is where the guillotine was during the French revolution. There was a huge obelisk with a golden tip. We could see the Arc de Triumph as well and it looked pretty close so we thought we my as well see that too. So we started walking, and we walked and walked and walked and it look like it was getting further away. An hour later, we made it there. As we looked back to concord square, we realized we walked all uphill. We took the metro back to the Louvre to see the pyramids. After grabbing a bite to eat, we jumped on a tour boat on the river seine. It was an hour cruise all the way from Notre Dame cathedral to the Eiffel tower (or tour Eiffel as it is known as here).

Moms eyes had a hard time staying open about half way through. Exhaustion finally caught up with her. I had to keep elbowing her. After the boat tour we finally brought mom back so we all could get some sleep for our next adventure.

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Trevor and Amber on May 23, 2009 from Paris, France

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Mom must have FREAKED OUT! Awwweee... glad you didn't keep her waiting that long

written by Brianne on June 1, 2009

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