We made it! Were in France right now! The house is super cute! Well its like 100 years old but it has a lot of personality. There's a lot of weird random stuff in it but we love it. There are no words to describe this place. It's so old and unique. We've only been in France for like 4 hours but I LOVE IT! Everywhere is so different! Well we just got home from the airport, we caught a Taxi. Its hard to get places because they don't speak English. I've only ever been out of the country twice to New Zealand (they speak English) and to Tahiti but I was young then. Anyways, its so crazy! Its just so fascinating just being in another country with different everything. There's different people, language, views, perspectives, lifestyles and everything is at least 100 years old here. Im just so grateful to live in Hawaii because here it is so big and confusing, like taking the Metro is so hard cause sometimes you don't know which one to take.
this is the view from our apartment
the living room in Paris
back of the front door to the left and dining room on right
the kitchen is so cute. thats a washing machine in the corner
europeans dont really use dryers. you just hang it out to dry
one of those cute random things in the apartment
they're tiny tea cups
another random thing but we used it. its a pepper grinder
we were on the 4th floor of a stone building built in the 1870s.
the first thing we did in Paris was go to Nortre Dame. It was
impressive. There is detail and symbolism in everything and it was reverent too. We sat in the pews for a while to take it all in and while we were there, they had a sermon. Photos cannot do justice to the amount of detail in everything - N.
the front center arch way detail
depicted on one side is heaven with hell on the other side with its gargoyles.
this is other side of Nortre Dame
next to the Seine River |
| Inside Notre Dame its magnificent and much larger than it looks here |
Paris Apartments along the Seine River
At the back of Nortre Dame theres a little garden. This is where we took these photos.
After Notre Dame we visited a holocaust Monument. It was very small and simple and sad.
We spent a few minutes talking about all those senselessly killed during the holocaust and how we need to love everyone no matter how different they are from us. God never intends for one people to dominate another.
Then it seemed perfect to go to Lovers Bridge which was right next door. It was wonderful to read peoples names and the dates they were in Paris. They put the information on a lock and it means they are together forever in Paris. Its so sweet.
Then we just wanted to walk around Paris and eventually find something to eat. Its fascinating to just observe everything that is going on. When you walk past a restaurant there are people standing at the door trying to lure you in. Its quite intimidating. We found we always went to places where no one was standing there waiting for us. But, we did fall in love with Gelato immediately.
Isn't she pretty? The middle (yellow) was Mango and from that time forth we ate a lot of Mango Gelato.
Here's a shot of the restaurants. Can you spot the people waiting for you to come and eat?
Guess what we ate?
I know, very french right? But it was delicious and different from the type of Pizza we are use to eating.
Makana loved it and went back the next day. He's a creature of habit. Don't worry we followed up with Crepes' and they were absolutely delicious. I ate a lot of Nutella and Banana Crepes'.
by this time we were really tired and jet-lagged and decided to go home for a nap. Time to get on the metro! Getting use to the metro took a couple of days and was a little confusing and scary and first but by the time we were done, it was a piece of cake. Heres a few shots of our metro experience. 
Makana was very helpful!
Us on the train after our first day.
When we got home we decided we would take a nap and then go to the Eiffel Tower in the evening. We all crashed so hard and woke up about 5 hours later (at midnight). We made food and ate dinner at 3 am. Its a 12 hour time difference and so our bodies were so confused. But it was fun to have dinner in the middle of the night and we enjoyed cooking together. Almost every breakfast and dinner we have at home and we prepare ourselves (we eat out only for lunch everyday). Its been a fun experience buying food in the local grocery stores here (it takes a while to figure out what things are and where they are). Its also been awesome cooking together as a family and trying new things. Heres our 3am meal:
Pasta, salad and baguettes.
It was a perfect first day in Paris.
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