Day 10 - Thursday, July 18th

We checked out of our sleek London condo at 11:00AM and left West Hampstead to board the Chunnel train to Paris.  What was to be a layover at King’s Crossing with all our luggage in tow evaporated as our train was cancelled and we were able to board an earlier one.  So in little time we were on our way.  However, this meant that our arrival at our Paris AirBnB in the 20th Arrondissement would be a couple hours earlier than planned.  Laura was uncomfortable with the idea of going under a body of water in a dark, dank tunnel, but our ride proceeded so smoothly I had to inform her the crossing had already occurred.  Although our host was unavailable given our earlier-than-planned arrival, fortunately her husband Jean Yves was on hand to welcome us to our small comfy retreat just up the hill from the Gambetta train stop.  We located a nearby grocery and prepared a meal before flopping contentedly in front of the Netflix machine to watch “The Devil Wears Prada.”  Laura and I had never seen it.  Meanwhile, the girls had significant amounts of the dialogue committed to memory.  Sleep found us quickly.