Paris, France
Our 13th wedding anniversary was May 28th. Since Joe was leaving on May 30th to go on a 3 week tdy back to the states, he planned a 4 day trip to Paris. We left at 7am Monday morning on the bullet train to Paris from Kaiserslautern. We traveled first class just to say we've done that once in our lifetime. They fed us breakfast and it was good. We got to go pretty close to the front of the train and watch it FLY down the tracks at 314 Km per hour. That's approximately 190 miles per hour. It didn't look that fast when you just looked out your window at the countryside, which was gorgeous, but when you looked down the track from the front of the train it was hard to keep from feeling a little woozy. We arrived in Paris at 930am and were told to GET OUT of the train station because pick-pockets are notorious in that particular place. So we did. We did what we in Texas like to call "skidaddling." We skidaddled out of there, Joe with a back pack on his back a