DAY 1- Monday June 2nd, 2014

Lets see, Day 1 in Europe was like 2 days ago, but here is how it went:

We got on a plane (actually Day Zero) with Prof. Taze, his wife, 3 kids (boys), and 10 Landscape Architecture students, at Greater Starkville/Columbus International Airport (2 gates), flew to Atlanta for the highlight of the flying experience, an excellent Open Face Meatloaf Sandwich w/ sauteed spinach, bacon, pimento cheese, and barbeque sauce, at a really nice restaurant- who would have thought in Georgia? the Atlanta airport is like a foreign country....

Then followed the 8 hour flight to Paris, which to me, not having flown much lately, seemed more like 12 hours. But they did try to serve us some food along about midnite......We declined the weird looking chicken?

Got in to Paris and Surprise! its 2PM and its DAY 1. Made it thru customs, got the suitcase, coordinated with Prof. Taze and the students, hit the Metro, transferred at Chatelet Les Halles (more like Chatel of Hells)

Spent 30 minutes trying to figure out where the connecting line was, found that, got off at our stop (Auber), and then could not figure out how to get to the SURFACE! Finally asked a nice lady and she led us to daylight....found the apartment (more on that later), found beer and wine, crashed.

DAY 2 soon......