Greetings from Paris!

Eglise Saint Germain des Pres
Looking down Blvd. Saint Germain


Here is the street our apartment is on - rue Bernard Palissy.


We left home on Saturday with plenty of time to catch our 5:30 p.m. flight to Detroit and a connecting flight to Paris at 9:25 p.m. (Eastern time). We got through check-in without a hitch, and decided since we had a couple of hours before our flight was due to leave that we would go and get something to eat. We checked the departure board before heading off to a restaurant, and saw that our flight had been canceled - it had been snowing all day in Minnesota on Saturday. I noticed that there was a flight to Detroit that was scheduled to leave at 5:10 p.m. so we decided to head to the gate of that flight and see if we could get on it instead. When we got to the gate there were people waiting to get on the 3:15 p.m. flight that had not left yet (It was 3:30). There was a long stand-by list, but we went to the desk and explained that we HAD to get to Detroit or we would miss our plane to Paris, and the very kind woman worked diligently to get us on that flight. Anyway, we did get on, but our luggage didn't, so we arrived in Paris on Sunday morning with no luggage. We finally got 5 of our 6 bags last night at about 11:45 p.m., and today we have to work on finding out where the 6th one is! We got to our apartment at around 1 p.m. on Sunday, and after putting our things in our apartment and going to the Monoprix (sort of like a SuperTarget but on a smaller scale) to get some groceries, we set out to explore Paris. We were meeting Kim (the gal who stayed with us last spring) after she was finished working at 7 p.m. so we had lots of time to explore.