France 2017 - Paris

We took off without a hitch from Sac Metro Airport and landed in Salt Lake City 15 minutes early - great! A 1 hour layover, just the right amount of time. Around the time we should have started boarding, they announced a delay of one hour due to a mechanical problem with the plane.  One hour turned into two, then three, then three and a half.  Finally they gave the word that we would be boarding, but we had to be very quick about it as the flight crew was about to time-out and then we would have a big problem and another delay.  Well we all managed to get on the plane and push off from the gate with just minutes to spare. Whew!

We had a good flight and arrived in Paris without incident, but now it was late afternoon and so our plans changed to basically dinner and bed instead of doing a little sightseeing after landing.  The next morning, we woke up and had a nice breakfast of French pastry then decided to walk around a bit.  We walked through the Tullieries gardens and over to the Grande Palais and then the Eiffel Tower.

In the afternoon, we had arranged to go to Monet's home and gardens at Giverny with a small group tour.  The gardens were very nice and still showing a lot of color, it did rain a little bit on us but we enjoyed the gardens and looking inside the house. We enjoyed a good dinner and took ourselves off to bed as we had an early start for Verdun the next day.

                                           Monet's garden