Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Today's the day!  We are very excited to start our trip.  Our flight leaves Charlotte at 4:00 pm and flies to Philadelphia.  We have only an hour layover in Philadelphia and then we fly out to Paris.  Our friend Brandi is taking us to the airport and we are going a little early so that we can have a late lunch/early dinner at the airport before we leave.  We will not have time to eat in Philadelphia and we generally do not eat airplane food.

We are packed and our suitcases are a little heavier than normal.  We decided to take some "North Carolina" gifts to the friends we have in Saint Aignan.  We bought nice dish towels with our state bird on them (Cardinal) and gourmet chocolate bars.  For our good friends, Claire and Douglas, we have a variety of gifts.  Some Tweet Revenge stuff, some coasters with funny sayings on them, some sassy cocktail napkins and black eyed peas!  Douglas has never eaten black eyed peas so it will be a first for him.  Hope everyone will like their little gifts.

We arrive in Paris tomorrow morning around 8:00.  We'll make our way through Customs and then take the long walk to the train station located in the airport.  We will take the train at 10:15 and arrive at a station called St. Pierre des Corps at about Noon.  Douglas and Claire kindly offered to pick us up there and we are grateful.  He said we could stop to do some grocery shopping on the way to Saint Aignan.  That is great so that tomorrow morning we don't have to rush right out to get food and drink.  

David said I have to close this down now and do whatever last minute things we have left to do.  If I'm not too tired tomorrow, I'll post from  La Boulangerie where we will not only be pretending to be French, we'll be pretending we own the house.  We love it there so much and, Rachael, if you are reading this, thank you very, very much!!!