Getting There is Half the Fun?

Some people say that "getting there is half the fun," well....I am not one of those people. The trip to Paris from Denver started out very exciting. Things went very smoothly as I made my way through the Denver Airport and I was thinking it was going to be a great day. But then, as we began to board the plan, we found out that there was a "ground stop" in Chicago and that we would be delayed. After being delayed over 3 hours we finally left Denver. While in the air we all feared that we would miss our plane from Chicago to Paris but thanks to a lot of hard work the airline held the plane for us in Chicago. When our first plane landed in Chicago it was a mad dash to the next plane (which was only 4 gates down, so our entire stay in Chicago was under 5 minutes!). As we ran onto the very full plane of angry passengers (because they had to wait for us) we did pass Lindsay Lohan which was pretty exciting. That plane ride was the longest I have ever been on (just over 8 hours) and I tried to sleep but it was not a big success.

But, through all the crazy stuff, we all made it to Paris. Arriving in the Paris Airport was crazy. It was my first experience of not knowing the language and to be honest, it was a little scary.

I spent my entire first day in ahh of the fact that I was actually in France. We were taken to our hotel, which is amazing, but has very small rooms. Then we went to lunch and saw the Arc de Triomphe. It was amazing! Even though we were all really tired (seeing as we had not slept in over 30 hours) most of the UNC kids went to dinner at a really cool cafe and then we walked along the Seine and got a nice glimpse of the Eiffel Tower.

I can't believe that I'm actually in France and experiencing all of this! I hope everyone is doing well back home and don't worry, I'm having a great time in Paris!

Love you all!