Paris, Day 1

This is a description of my day in Paris with some captions for the photos. If you just want to see the photo album, you can go here. Note that there are actually a lot more photos in the album than shown here.

The travel part of the trip to Paris was pretty uneventful. The airport had a special EU traveler section, which made everything very simple with passports…I didn’t really need to show anything. It was kind of a long walk to the train station though – we were in Terminal 3 (of 3) and only 2 terminals have train stops…I bet you can guess which one didn’t have one. We ended up meeting Vy’s uncle very very late (he had to wait about an hour for us on the street, he was giving us our hotel key…but he was very gracious about it all). We had some hotel problems, but let’s get on to the photos!


Here’s a picture of the small park right by our hotel. It was nice to have a park really close so I could go out and play…we also ate a few times here after picking up some Vietnamese food from some street vendors. Our hotel was right in the middle of the Vietnamese districts, and all of our best food was actually Vietnamese…we had terrible luck with French restaurants.


The first day we went on a walk through the streets. I kind of wanted to get a feel for my surroundings…I’m not sure what Vy wanted, but she did think we walked too much. We walked pretty much the whole day!


This was a building right by the library and the MK2 movie theater…no real connection, I just thought it looked nice.


This boat was just chilling on the Seine…across the river is a swimming complex, which I thought was pretty cool…it’s basically in the river.


We walked to the menagerie then dealt with a pretty horrible rainstorm. We had to hide under a building – this photo was taken right after it stopped raining…note the rainbow and the lack of people. The menagerie was beautiful, here are some highlights…











There’s all the photos from day 1! As always, feel free to check out the album!