Europe Trip - Paris

Tommy and I had the opportunity to go to Europe in April. It was a fantastic and wonderful trip!!! Like seriously the best. I think we will talk about it forever. My sister Melanie lives in Italy so we knew we wanted to visit them. And Tommy travels to Europe for work so often and we both wanted me to go with him sometime. So we built it all together.

We left Friday, April 15 right after preschool to drive to my parent's house in Delaware. They were kind enough to watch the boys for us to go on this trip and we are so grateful. We spent Saturday with them (and went into Philadelphia because my old roommate Lizi and her husband were on a getaway there at the same time! So we got to meet up with them and it was so good to see them!!). Sunday evening my dad drove Tommy and I to the airport. Because we were building this trip off of a business trip for Tommy, we used his sky miles and splurged and flew in business class. It was so fun to feel spoiled and to see what Tommy gets to enjoy so often!

We flew overnight and landed in Paris late Monday morning. We got to our hotel (and found out we were upgraded to a suite!) downtown right across from the opera house.

We spent the afternoon walking the city. We grabbed a delicious sandwich and apple tart and saw the Louvre, Notre Dame, and the whole city in between. We then walked back to our hotel to rest for a little bit. It took us longer than we thought but we got another sandwich and chocolate croissant. We rested for 30 mins and called the boys and then went back out for dinner. We ate steak and frites at a fun restaurant and then walked to the Eiffel Tower. We waited until dark to see it at night and then took a cab back to the hotel because we were so exhausted from jet lag and walking so much.

This is the mall!

Tuesday jet lag hit me hard. We took a tour of the opera house in the morning. It was beautiful and amazing! It's the opera house that the Phantom of the Opera is based on and it is magnificent. We walked around to a few shops and got crepes for lunch. Then we headed to the airport to fly to Italy.

Paris was really neat! I enjoyed seeing so many of the famous sites and it was my first foreign city experience so I enjoyed just seeing all the differences and people watching.