I now have the in-flight safety brochures from a Canadair CL-65 and a B767-300 3 cabin (I collect them. they are an excellent example of commercial art, the cartoon people demonstrating the safety evacuations always look so happy.).
Day 1) Get to Paris (Roissy CDG airport) take bus and metro to city. Get to TimHotel Le Louvre. Nap. Go site seeing. Itch for internet. Fall down metro stairs. hurt self. Go to Eiffel Tower. Get food and wine at market and get drunk in hotel and go to sleep. Mom has insomnia. She made a tent of blankets over me so she could read with the lights on. I woke up thinking I was in a tomb. Had a strange cauchemar that spiders were climbing out of my nails.
Day 2) Le Louvre was shut (to film the Da Vinci Code), so mom and I went to St. Denis Cathedral, the most beautiful cathedral I know of, except the Kolner Dom. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/S/Sa/Saint_Denis_Basilica.htm
Therein, I got to see the eviscerated heart of Louis XVII, the Dauphin, so that was cool. I am a historian, so I was really happy digging through the royal necropolis. Mom and I went shopping. We took a nap and then went to Montmartre in the evening.
Day 3). Mom went to the Louvre, I went to Notre Dame Cathedral at noon and listened to the clerestory. The pigeons explode into flight when the bells ring. Quite delightful. I went back to the hotel and then finished #9Dream by David Mitchell. In the subway, one of the people who perform for change came on (quite a cute man and karaoked this dude). . http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/lyle_24/myhero.html It was awesome. I gave him 20 centimes.
Mom and I ate at a sit down restaurant at nite and played with the dogs who lived at the restaurant.
Day 4). Musee d'Orsay. Stared at Courbet's Origine du Monde for quite a while giggling. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/courbet/origin.jpg.html We went to the Eiffel Tour again. got wine and food and went back to the hotel.
Day 5) We went to the Paris Opera House. Then we took the Roissy Bus to the airport and spent the entire day in transit. Went to sleep at 10:30 EST, and woke up un-jetlagged. Nice!