FRANCE

Wednesday, May 28th

Up at 6 am to have some breakfast and then take the shuttle bus to the airport. After the bus dropped us off we began the long walk to the Aer Lingus check-in counter. Check-in complete, we began another long walk through all the Duty Free shops to and other shopping and dining establishments to our gate. Upon landing in Paris we began what seemed like the “Amazing Race”! We followed all persons with American and Canadien passports to our check in point (Connie had to see an agent because her passport was not able to be read by the scanner!). After scanning our passports we made our way to baggage claim…. The slowest baggage claim ever!!!! Bags in tow we had to figure out what train to take??? We found the appropriate line toward our destination – the RER C line (yellow). We hopped on the train and thought we were good until we were not😳. After going 6 stops beyond where we needed to change trains, we got off and made our way to the appropriate train. About 45 minutes later, we were truly at our destination station….Pont du Garigliano! From there it was a short walk across the Seine (10 minutes) to our apartment at 12 Excelsior. Connie found us a most excellent apartment!! Close to Roland Garros (15 minutes later walk) and close to the RER and the Metro. Our total travel today only took us 12 hours!! And we lost an hour when changing time zones😳

The Dorffs had created a beautiful dinner for us. We immediately started talking non-stop sharing travel stories, and then we started making plans for our Parisian adventures:)

Time for bed. Tennis tomorrow at Roland Garros!🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾