First Night in Paris

I am in Paris from Dec 13-17 working at a conference for Information Systems professors. My flight to Paris went well. I sat in Economy for the first leg to Washington Dulles; boy I've forgotten how crowded it is back there! The flight from Washington DC to Paris was only half full, so I had no one next to me which made it nice. I read a Dan Brown book the entire 7 hours and didn't notice the time at all.

When I arrived, I was picked up by one of our local Microsoft academic reps, who took me to my hotel. Unfortunately it was too early to check in, so I left my luggage with the concierge, and then walked about a 1/2 mile to a local university where some of the conference meetings were going on. After lunch I walked back to the hotel and was able ot check in, so I took a nap and then went out to dinner with a bunch of people from the conference.

After dinner I grabbed my camera for a couple of nice shots near the conference center and my hotel.

The entrance to my hotel

This is my hotel from across the street

The street where my hotel is. My hotel is on the right down a couple of buildings. Christmas is definitely in the air.

A couple of streets away is a main boulevard, and from there you can see the Arch de Triumphe.

This the conference center where I'll be working for the next few days