Post 4: "Day" 1

Salut!
Wednesday became Thursday for us Amuricans way too quickly after the flight. We all crashed after unpacking for about 4 hours, which was just enough charge to keep us going till 12:30 pm (24h30)!
We ate at our local neighborhood cafe which has seating facing outwards to the street for the ultimate people-watching experience. Mom and Dad decided they wanted to see how stress kitten Claire, optimistic Tess and cautious Olivia would do by themselves in a supermarche. We were fine and benefited from the experience (yummm french candy!)
We walked around our quatrier and over to Notre-Dame for a quick viewing. It happens to be very close to us!
After Notre-Dame, we walked to l'Hotel de ville and caught the metro, which is now our new bff!
We took the metro to L'etoile (Champs-Elysees & L'arc de triomphe) for a nighttime viewing of the amazing city around us! The lights were gleaming and cameras were flashing, which added to our slight vertigo.
To get the full experience we walked a ways down Le Champs-Elysees and walked into the biggest Sephora...tres fragrant! The metro carried us home to our local creperie where we had our first crepe of the vacation
(btws, in France they only use bananas-no other fruit!) (also instead of saying oui like we do in class "wee", you say it like "whay" (with phlegm, as Daddy says))
The Dillons passed out at around 1-ish am(7pm Atlanta time) but I'd say we got accustomed to Paris time relatively quick for first time European travelers!

Day 1 was probably the longest day of our lives but definitely a memorable and exciting one as well!