Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Paris in 24 Hours


i started out on tuesday flying ealry in the morning to atlanta.  There i met up with my intern partner robby parker.  he had already been outside the airport to travel around.  to my surprise Atlanta reminded me of Africa for one very plain detail.  all the residents i saw there working on positions in the airport were black.  i got onto the plane to go to paris and i was seated by two business looking men.  one was a native of Delhi, India and the other was on his way to Lagos, Nigeria working in the oil fields.  i was very excited for my position and i started conversing with each of them but after about an hour of talking with them and realizing that the plane hadnt even left yet i was questioning things.  i was listening to the concerned french pilot speak to his flight attendants and hearing that there was a problem with the fuel, i started to become concerned.  they had to evacuate everyone off the plane and we had to wait in the terminal to load back onto the flight.  well eventually our flight took off and was about a little over two hours late getting into paris.  so naturally most of the people with connecting flights had problems, including us.But this is when the fun started.  we talked to an agent in Paris and she gave us a free dinner and a free breakfast and a free nights stay at a local hotel called Campanile, which is located very close to the airport.  so we left the airport and got on the hotel shuttle and showed up here.  we got a little food and walked around the area before the shuttle came back to pick us up for the metro station.  these are some of the sights we saw:
we then came back to the hotel to catch our shuttle and our adventure of paris continued in the downtown district.  we saw sacre coeur after battling a thunderstorm:

after sacre coeur we continued and found some of the best looking views ever.  c'etait tout magnifique.




5 comments:

Kelly Stanley said...

CARTER! I'm so jealous of your travels. Cool pictures. I wish you were standing by that giant head.

Kate said...

oh how great Cartz, what great place to get delayed while waiting for a flight, I had to stay the night in Phoenix once, not nearly as cool, can't wait to see what India's like!!

jesieo said...

this is a perfect example post of what we all want to see, pictures and stories! i love it. that's so cool that you speak french and can use it again in a native speaking country, i'm so excited for you, keep the pictures coming...

Unknown said...

carter! you're there! how sweet?!? sorry about your flight, that sounds not fun at all. What great pictures. Everything looks ancient and awesome. I'm in D.C. and very tired. I'll start seeing some cool stuff, eventually.

Megan said...

How cool!!!!! I'm so jealous! Thanks for sharing so many pictures and stories, I hope you're loving India already! I can't wait to hear what that is like! Good luck with everything!!!!

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