We landed in Paris a little after 9am. It didn’t take long for us to see our first Olympic reference. It was in the airport as we departed the plane.

We decided to take an Uber to the city. I don’t understand why Greg didn’t order the Bubbles.

After a short 5-10 min wait our driver had arrived to pick us up. Greg had been expecting a 45 min or so trip to the city but ours took much longer.

Our apartment won’t be available until 4pm so we dropped our bags off at the property management office. With no real plans for the day our only real priority is lunch. Pronto.

We found an outdoor café and was seated around 11:45. Lunch doesn’t start until noon but we are fine to sit and wait.

After lunch we just started walking, and walking and walking. This blog is basically now going to turn into a picture book.

Jake’s first Parisian crepe!

Maddie needed a bio break so we stopped in McDonald’s in hopes they had one she could use. Unfortunately they did not. They did have some fun sandwich offerings.

So we thought seeing all the Olympic stuff would be cool but we were mostly wrong. So much of the city is blocked off for preparations. The Tuileries were blocked, much of the walkways along the Seine and more. I can’t imagine living here and having this ongoing for weeks and months. I am exciting to watch the Olympics to see how this all comes together. Especially the opening ceremony on the Seine via boat.

So the official Olympic store was actually cool. A few of us got some things here including myself who picked a nice warm sweatshirt that I’m thinking I will be wearing around Paris. Did I mention I didn’t pack well?

We stopped in an Adidas store to see if they had any shoes for Brooks. They did not but they did have these models of people playing sports which reminded me of the interesting models in the kids science museum in Amsterdam. If you remember those from a previous blog. 🙂

Louis Vuitton is building something crazy. I can’t even figure out if this is a facade or the building.

As we were resting our feet we realized that we only have 75 minutes to get back and collect our luggage before the office closes. And we are three miles from where we need to be. I would have loved to subway back but Greg didn’t act like that would be much faster (he probably just wanted to walk so we all started the three mile trek back. At a rapid pace.