December 27

Today, we began our journey with a 3:30 PM flight directly from Atlanta to Charles de Gaulle in Paris. We left about 12 PM for the airport...since ATL and O'Hare are neck in neck for the busiest airport in the US, you have to allow lots of time. We saw Ginny and Sara just a bit ahead of us in the line when we started towards the desk to check-in. Unfortunately, Brendan and I both ended up have overweight bags, and it was just too difficult to transfer a bunch of stuff over, so we paid the $50. After the security line, which wasn't too bad, we got a bite to eat at the food court in the International Terminal E.

From there, we four went to exchange some dollars for euros. The flight was delayed about twenty minutes for a security sweep, then we boarded. We were on a 767 with 3 seats in the center and 2 on either side. Brendan and I sat in one of the 2 seat sections with Ginny and Sara in front of us. As we started across the ocean, we faced south and I could just see a sharks fin shape of the very bright moon on the horizon. We watched Little Miss Sunshine, which I had seen in the theatre, but was glad to see again, especially the dancing bit at the end. I was totally vainly attempting to work those moves at Halloween!

Anyhow, tried to nap as much as possible, but Brendan and I both started feeling pretty crappy when we were coming into Paris. The sky was very cloudy, so all we could see coming in was a dim glowing blotch where the city lay below.