First full day in Paris

Of course the first day ends up being a blur you try your hardest, in my case successfully, to fall sleep a while and you're awakened by flight attendants shoving a box with yogurt and a packaged biscuit at you. You consume that, when the plane lands and you get off. At this juncture it feels like four in the morning. Anyone who has taken an international flight will recognize what happens when you get off the plane. You are essentially injected into a large glass tube that pushes you from the plane down to
some sort of processing center. This invariably includes 3 to 5 hallways and escalator or two and a couple of passages where you can see everybody else in the airport that you can't get out of where you are to go say hi.

We emerged from the airport into a taxi which took us to our very cute little hotel. We were fortunate in that our room was ready, because we were ready for our nap. Our way of dealing with the whole overnight eastbound travel is to get to the hotel, nap for a couple of hours and then push through the rest of the day. That gets us awake enough to function but eventually tired enough that we can go to bed in the evening, even though its much earlier at home.

We then went and visited with our friend for a bit, and then went back to the hotel. Then back to the apartment and then back to the hotel and back to the apartment. Somewhere in there we had lunch and rested a bit and I went to the cheese shop and the supermarket. Yeah, a bit of a blur. We're not technically in the city of Paris; we're in sort of a close-in suburb called Bourgogne that's still on the Paris Metro. There's a busy Main Street with lots of shops and places to eat. It's obviously a residential area- there's nothing touristic about it. But because it's the Paris environs, everything still looks nice and is done with style.

Oh yeah, nice looking baked goods too

It's very pleasant to walk around. Those little Razor scooters are very popular with the kids
And there's a school near the hotel, so the sidewalks are busy with them. Eventually, we went to our friends' apartment and had dinner and hung out and talked until late. Finally got to bed around midnight. That was a very long day.