Bonjour a tous

View from Brandi's apartment
Mindy and Jennifer
Jennifer and Mindy
Mindy and Zumandi
View from plane
View from Brandi's apartment balcony

We made it to France! The flight wasn't bad from Detroit to Amsterdam. The plan was huge and a double decker. We sat next to a 19 year old girl from South Africa named Zumandi - she was a trip! She had been in Florida for the past two years for internship and was on her way home to stay. She flew with us from Detroit which which was a 7 hour flight, then she was flying from Amsterdam to South Africa which is a 16 hour flight - seriously! Zumandi was VERY chatty and well traveled, so we enjoyed chatting with her. She recommended that we sample "hash brownies" while in Amsterdam....haha! Don't think we'll be trying that. We have never been fed so many times on a plane. Our dinner was pretty good, we had chicken with rice and peas (tasted a lot better than it sounds), salad with ranch, a roll, cheese/crackers, and Oreos. After our dinner and FREE wine we were pretty tired, so we slept on and off for the next 3-4 hours. We were awoken by breakfast being served which was a fruit cup and an egg and cheese sandwich. Breakfast was at 11pm Illinois time and midnight in Indiana so we weren't real hungry. We saw the sun rising over the ocean while seeing land all at the same time. We tried taking a picture of it from the plane but it didn't turn out great. Amsterdam is a really nice airport - we were surprised by the fact that everything in the airport was in English and that they have Playboy magazines out on the magazine rack next to the Time magazine! We were delayed an hour in Amsterdam due to fueling problems. We finally boarded the plane and sat for another hour and a half. This was a small plane probably only holding 50 people. Two seats on each side and of course the lady an aisle over wasn't wearing deodorant in true French fashion and there was no air circulating for 1.5 hours!! Wow! Of course, once we boarded the plane, they no longer spoke English so we had no clue what they were saying the problem with the delay was. We only understood 5 more minutes, which went on for an hour and a half. We slept the entire flight which was probably two hours. We landed in Lyon and experienced the rude French people - everyone for themselves is their motto we think! Brandi's apt is so nice and BIG...she is in a great location too. There are shops everywhere and Sephora is right next door. We have attached a couple of pictures of the view from Brandi's balcony. We are going to shower and get settled and then we have dinner at 8pm with Brandi's French friends. More to come! A bientot!