We Made it to PARIS

This trip is special for a lot of reasons. It's my wife's first time in Europe, it's my first time as a civilian in Europe, our first time in France, IN PARIS. It was her first trip across the atlantic....the list goes on and on. Most importantly though, this trip is special because we get to spend some quality time together. As parents of two small children the amount of time that we spend together doesn't necessarily diminish, but the quality of our togetherness definitely has. Of course like any good parent we wouldn't change our lives for anything, but we relish in the joy of Quality Time Together. This trip is giving us just that.

We arrived in Paris around 6 am local time and then wove our way thru CDG and into the city. Where we promptly got lost and started working on breaking down language barriers. It took us all in all about 3 hours from the plane touching the ground to getting to our apartment. It's safe to say that 2 hours and 30 minutes of that time was us standing in sidewalks, saying "soooo which way do you think we should go", to each other.

We had a little snafu with getting the key to our apartment but that was solved with a bit of wifi and some espresso to get the brain going back to problem solving mode. Our little studio loft is cute and perfect for our short stay. It is conveniently located at the foot of the Basilique du Sacre Coeur, a massive beautiful Roman-Catholic church built on the hilltop above Montmartre.

Sacre-Coeur

you can't miss this thing, making it a perfect land mark to finding home

We are also just steps away from the metro (which happens to be free tonight) and a short two stop ride away from Pigalle, the former "red-light" district where Moulin Rouge exists.

we've been here for less than 12 hours and we've

already checked this one off the list

We had a quick meal in a little corner bistro, take note the truly legit french onion soup, oh and someone appears to be extremely happy to have her first Carlsberg. 

At this time we are lounging in the apartment warming back up before we head out to a local club/bar for festivities. Paris thus far, it's been amazing