We made it to Paris!

Left the house, drove to LAX and made it through security in under 2 hours - then we had to wait another 3 hours for our flight!  Rather be there early than running through the airport for sure.  Uneventful flight, slept very little and landed in Paris to gray skies.  Customs was only about 15 minutes, grabbed a taxi and we were in our hotel by noon.  Driving into the city felt like any other city - graffiti, IKEA, buildings but here there is a lot of greenery compared to LA.  Our hotel is super quaint and our view is of the park with the Louvre to the left and The Eiffel tower to the right!  Walked around a few miles, had lunch then went back to the hotel to grab our raincoats.  Headed out the long way to the Eiffel Tower so we could see the amazing bridges, monuments, walk along the Seine and then the tower itself.  Literally as soon as we got there it started to rain buckets!  We were both soaked from the waist down but we pretty much laughed the whole time at how crazy it was :). Walked close to 8 miles today and right now we are fading fast.  The last photo is of us in one of the 2 elevators in our hotel.  It is maybe 2x3ft!  Kirk thinks it’s really a dumb waiter.  LOL.  And we accidentally bought the same raincoat so we are super dorky matching tourists!

Also I just love all of the apartment buildings.