I woke up at 3:30, and my husband woke up at 5. It could be because we both were excited about going on our trip. Our wonderful neighbor, Donna, took us to the Palm Beach International Airport at 8:30. Our flight wasn’t scheduled to leave until 12:19 pm, but they say if you are going on an international flight, you need to be there 3 hours early, so we were. No lines or hassles while we were getting through security.
I met a nice lady whose son is a teacher in Philly and works at the school where my online friend is the principal. It was really neat to find the connection!
We had a 4-hour layover in Philly, but by the time we got off the first plane, went to the restroom, ate a bagel, and got to our boarding gate (which was almost a mile (20 min.) from where we got off the first plane), we only had a 90-minute wait.
It was almost an 8 ½ hour flight to Paris, and we arrived at 8 am on 11/15. We went through customs and got our luggage. As soon as we walked out of the airport, we found the Viking representatives. 4 of us were brought to our hotel (Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile).
We went to the Viking table and met our cruise director, Elliot, who was very welcoming. He gave us information and told us what to do next. We learned how to pronounce our ship's name, which is Herja, but pronounced Herrier.
Even though check-in wasn’t until 3 pm, they had a room available for us. We dropped off our stuff and then headed out to explore. We walked to the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. We stopped at McDonald's for a snack. We had to stop by our room so I could call our credit card company. I forgot to tell them that we would be out of the country, and our credit card was declined at McDonald's. Once we got that straightened out, we went exploring again. We also stopped at Epic (the supermarket) for some things to take back to the room. Thankfully, my credit card worked fine. By 5:30, we were exhausted since we had been up for 32 hours. We went to bed early!
Look forward to our Viking excursion tomorrow.
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