Paris, the first round

Pete and I left Yaounde on a Sunday evening flight, on June 17th, along with almost the entire ex patriot community. We got some help from Sandrine about the public transportation system. Jennifer and Daryl helped us get to Information. 87 euros later we were off to the suburbs of Paris. Due to our lack of time to plan anything for this summer, when we went to go book a room nothing was available. As a result, we stayed way, way, way outside the city, next to Euro Disney, of all places! It was a rough start as we had an address and figured since it said "near public transportation" people would know where the hotel was. No such luck. We got on and off that train many times, at several different stations before finding the right one. Then a glimmer of hope-- a free bus would take us there-- in three hours. So, instead we ate a delicious and expensive lunch and then got a cab. He totally over-charged us and at that point we were so tired we didn't care. This shot is of Pete walking from the RER station to the group of hotels where we stayed- it was just like Vegas the last few years we lived there--show rooms for future apartments and parking spaces that said "welcome home". It was a hike, but a brand new place, with a pool. The first day we just layed at the pool and geared up for our next day in Paris.