With an early flight this morning to Paris we stayed at a Radisson within walking distance to the airport. There is both a Radisson red and a Radisson blue….not sure why there are two or why we chose red but were greeted with a red skiing moose. 

Our rooms were supposed to have runway views. Unfortunately due to our arrival time last night and our 6am lobby meeting time this morning to head over there was little to no airport traffic.

The lobby had a typewriting I assume that’s for decoration only but I’d love to give it a go if I had paper and no time. Also seems fitting for the Era’s tour with the Toured Poets Department lyrics for all the swifties.

The lobby and hotel were packed last night but this morning the lobby and airport are dead. Here’s hoping for smooth sailing through security. I always get nervous in Europe since every country seems to have their own rules of what must come out of your bag when going through.

It was mostly smooth with virtually no line. However, my and Greg’s backpack got stopped for a secondary screen by the slowest agent ever. After completely the bags before ours with absolutely no regard for time she got to ours. She asked if we had food, liquids or electronics in our bags. I’m not sure if Greg missed the food part or just wanted to forget we both had giant blocks of Norvega cheese in each backpack he said no electronics or liquids. She said food? He responded oh yes, we have cheese. She cracked a smile and upon opening both our bags and seeing the giant blocks of cheese she and the screening agent both laughed.

Thankfully we escaped with all our cheese with just a requirement that the cheese go through screening separately and our backpacks be sent back through.

I would have been so sad to have had to leave that cheese despite not knowing if we are planning on eating it the next three days in Paris or somehow try to bring some back home. That’s a problem for another day.

Logan and I grabbed breakfast while Maddie and Jake went to Starbucks and Greg and Brooks shopped duty free.

After a short wait it’s time to board our two hour flight to Paris. We have nothing specific planned other than some forced early morning family pics tomorrow morning. Potential options include a trip to Claude Monet’s house in Giverny, a Seine River cruise, a trip to our favorite virtual reality escape room and obviously other sight seeing.

But first, we need to actually make it to Paris and to our Airbnb to drop our bags since we won’t be able to check in until later.