Day One in Beautiful Paris
We arrived in Paris early in the morning after over 24 hours since departing our home on Tuesday night at about 12:30 in the morning and arrived Paris time at 6:00 am. Our transport was pre-arranged by Kari so we onl had to wait for a few minutes for our pick-up. The drive into the city from the airport was during morning rush hour and took over an hour.
We arrived at our lovely hotel and found that Kari had arranged for any early morning check-in so we got right into our room. It is very nice with a balcony that overlooks a park.

our hotel

We were very tired as we hadn't slept for two nights so we decided to taka a short rest and shower and then we got directions on how to go cross town on the Metro to pick up the Paris pass that Kari had ordered for us. It will cover all transit, metro, sight seeing bus and museums, etc. for four days.

After returning to the hotel with our passes, we took another brief rest and then walked our neighborhood to see it. We stopped for a drink at an outside cafe for some people watching. We enjoyed this very much.
Next we decided that we were too tired and warm (91 degrees) to get a real dinner so we stopped at a bake shop  and bought  a baguette and walked and savored this fresh bakedbaguette and some wonderful frozen  ice cream and yogurt from a gelato som of the best we have ever taste. A tired couple of travelers came back for an early night in the hotel.