Dublin and Paris

August 19, 2009, Wednesday
Paris

It has been a LONG day. Molly took us to the airport and we were able to march right towards the gate but Don got stopped in Security and they gave him the want several times and then isolated him in the glass box and some man was patting him down VERY thoroughly and finally they discovered that he had put his metal bookmark in his pocket!! I was starved and so I went to the food stand and the cheapest thing I could fine was a veggie wrap for $9. That didn’t sound too bad so I bought it with a bottle of water and almost $15 later I bit in to the strangest thing on earth. It had veggies in it that I couldn’t even recognize!! I ate about half of it and decided that I could wait for supper!!

There were a zillion kids on our flight and as we were waiting and listening to the screaming and pounding of little feet, Don turned to me and muttered that all people under the age of 12 should be banned on aircraft!! This from a confirmed child lover!! Actaully, our seats were very nice, right in the front of the plane. There was a single mother across the aisle from us with a rather new baby and a two year old but they were fie and I even got to baby sit the baby while she took the little to the bathroom. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve had to babysit!! I was thrilled!

The flight was a bit rough but not really awful and I managed to get some sleep. Don got none. He doesn’t even try. We arrived in Dublin almost an hour early so we had a 3 ½ hour layover and then sat in row 1 on the flight from Dublin to Paris. We picked up our little car and this year it is a nice beige color. WAY more personality than the black one of last year!

We are quite proud of ourselves in that we were able to drive directly to our hotel without one wrong turn. Our hotel is hysterical. It is so tiny that it almost doesn’t exist. The rooms are minute and we brought in all three of our bags so we could re-organize. I sent Don out to do something….anything…so I could move things around. Now the bags are WAY more manageable and we can leave the big one in the car and just bring in the small carry-ons. We were allowed twice as much luggage as we brought and I’m really glad that we aren’t pushing all the extra stuff around.

It is HOT over here. Almost 100 degrees F and they all think they are dying. Very few places in the commoner sections have A/C. Thank God our hotel has it and so does our car. We went out for dinner tonight and it is just brutal. So humid and HOT. But we found a lovely little restaurant/bar owned by a brother and sister and it was loaded with patrons so we decided that it must be good and it was. Don had the steak tartare (ick!!) and I had the best omelet I’ve ever had in my life. They didn’t want to serve him the steak tartare because they thought he didn’t know what it was and they didn’t know how to say that it was raw but when we explained that he REALLY has a streak of cannibal in him, out it came.

We are beat and so it’s off to bed. Tomorrow Versailles.