PARIS WITH ALEX AND REGGIE!!!

So, to say the least I have been anticipating this weekend with great joy of several weeks now. It's the first time I would see Alex or Reggie in a couple months and we would be seeing each other is Paris. Does it get much better than that?
Plan for the morning:

• wake-up: 5:30am
• leave house: 6am
• arrive at train station 6:35
• train departure: 6:50
• arrive in Paris: 8:36
• Meet Alex and Reggie at the Louvre at 9:30

What really happened:

• wake-up: 5:45
• leave house (without breakfast): 6:05
• realize I forgot my eurorail pass: 6:20
• arrive at house to desperately search for eurorail pass: 6:24 
• Leave house with eurorail pass: 6:27
• Make the bus at perfect timing: 6:29
• Thanks to the lack of traffic, or well anything at this time on a saturday, descend bus: 6:38
• (12 minutes to go) Arrive at train station (after a couple sprints): 6:42
• Train leaves: 6:50
• Catherine breathes: 6:55
• arrive in Paris: 8:36
• walk the wrong way (once again with a map...) and start in right direction: 8:50
• arrive at Louvre: 9:40
• Spend 10 minutes jumping up and down hugging Alex and Reggie

Obviously we started out "sightseeing" at the Louvre, where we saw what we wanted to (pretty much everything except anything that had to do with Greek), visited the Tullaries Gardens, ate lunch at a cafe, climbed the Eiffel tower (by elevator), visited the Paris Musée de Beaux Arts, and opted not to wait in line for Mussée de L'Orangerie for the water lillies.  Instead we found a grocery store, bought water, and they walked me to Paris Bercy to catch my train home.

I didn't get to see much of Paris or Alex and Reggie, but I've already spent time with them, and I'm sure to spend more time with them later :) Especially since I am less than 4 days away from Rome with Reggie!