EuroTrip 2010: Day 1.5

This is Carl.  I never met him before, but now we're fast friends.

This is Wiseman.  He's half Sasquatch and half human.  Like me, this is his first time to Paris as well.

This is me.



Here's our plane:

and our first activity, which will be the theme for the trip... other than trying not to offend the locals and getting in trouble:

It didn't take more than a day for me to get into trouble--stay tuned for that.  But for now, when Wiseman and I got into Paris, it was around 2:30pm, and we took the train into the city.  On the train, about 30 seconds into the trip we noticed a ton of graffiti, including one that welcomed us into Paris: "Welcome to Paris!".  And then we saw the taggers getting arrested by the Police.  The Graffiti theme will come up again in day two--This coincides with me getting into trouble with a local.

I suspect the taggers were about to take advantage of this empty canvas before the fuzz got to them!

We got to cafe Francé to meet Carl, right by the Bastille:

And the first purchase we made:

After drinking a bottle of terrific $5 wine, we went for a stroll and took in Paris at night:

It was fucking cold.  I learned the phrase, "tres froid!".  Due to the froid climate, we headed back to the apt and watched french music videos and drank more wine.  Day 1.5 done.