Well, first leg of the journey is over and was uneventful, if you do not consider the announcement about 15 minutes prior to scheduled boarding. "Ladies and gentlemen , this is a flight announcement for passenger flying Air France flight 379 to Paris. This flight has been cancelled" Whhhaaaaattttt.......... About a minute and a half later, someone at the service desk came on the intercom and said to disregard the previous announcement. Wheeeeeew!! It would have been annoying but wouldn't have ruined everything. These days, because we are retired we have the luxury of building "pressure relief" days into our schedules, in part, just for this reason.
We departed Vancouver about 45 minutes late and landed in Paris only 5 minutes behind schedule. Next was the hour long trek to first collect our luggage and then find the shuttle buses to the hotel. Getting to the baggage claim included a train ride from one terminal to another, then retracing our steps a bit because I took us to the wrong carousel, then it was a hike across a very long terminal, up a couple of elevators and finally we were on the bus to the hotel.
We were able to get into our room early and I took a much needed nap for about 5 hours. Then we went out to find someplace to eat. Our hotel does not have a restaurant, but we are very near to a little town center, so a 5 minute walk we found several restaurants to eat at. Food was good but expensive (or we just don't eat out often enough) - 2 appetizers, 2 mains, 1 beer and 2 cafes was 60€ ($90CAD). Then it was back to the room and to bed by 10PM, erly for us. We both were awake about 4AM and got up about 5 and are now starting to feel like things are becoming normal. Today will be spend touring this little community we are in, Roissy-en-France, and planning an outing for tomorrow.
I'll post pictures later.
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