Day 1 Thursday
We arrived at 7:30AM and got a Mercedes shuttle van (Very cool, we don’t have that in the U.S.) to take us to the hotel. The guy was not supposed to pick people up at the airport (Airport cab union doesn’t allow competition), but he did anyway, and he took us on inside streets and we saw a lot of the city from a local’s perspective. It was very nice.
It was a tiring day, we took it easy. We went out to lunch and then relaxed at the hotel. The hotel is nice and it’s the Meridien in MontParnasse, it is a bit (maybe 1-2 miles outside of Paris) but it’s a very beautiful area with a lot of people and excitement. The hotel is very close to a hub type Metro station, so I’m exploring the possibility of traveling to all destinations with the metro instead of taxi, we will save a lot of money.
We went to get a GSM chip for the phone we got the unlock code for from AT&T. These people are soooo lost. It took 1 hour 10 min to do this. Anyway we got it, but we don’t know what to do with it. It’s a bit like a dog chasing the car. What does it do with it after it catches the car???
Anyway, we only have Free Internet in the lobby, (it’s 30 Euro per day in the room), The lobby resembled the computer room at Stanford. I was glad I wasn’t the only cheapskate in the hotel with my netbook and slippers sitting and answering emails @ 1:00AM.