Traveling is fun.

Slightly frustrated at the moment because I just spent over twenty minutes writing a new entry and of course I lost internet connection and everything I had written as I was submitting. So I apologize in advance if this message is not very detailed-I'll do the best I can to be patient.
As some of you already know because my flight leaving MSP was delayed 2 hours because of the weather on sunday I didn't get into JFK until about half an hour before my flight was going to leave for Paris. Of course the weather was horrible in NY as well so we sat on the tarmack for almost 40 min because the planes waiting to leave needed to be de-iced and were hogging all the gates. Once I finally got off the plane it was ONE MINUTE before my flight to Paris was leaving. After hunting down a couple very enthusiastic (insert scarcasm) airport workers I discovered I had to go outside to get to a different terminal that was flight was leaving from. Picture me sloshing through the slush and dodging traffic then running through a terminal as long as 2 football fields only to get up to the security gate and have the woman look at my ticket and say "Oh you're Katherine...they've been paging you. The plane just pulled out from the gate." Perfect. So after a minor breakdown and lots of help from my wonderful family I found out the next flight to Paris was 5pm monday and I would need to stay in the airport. Thankfully my cousin Ann lives in Brooklyn and she got my family's call for help and invited me to come stay at her place. So I hopped in a cab and headed to Brooklyn, finally getting there about 2am. So nice to have a safe place to sleep. Took the subway back to the airport early monday afternoon allowing plenty of time so I couldn't possibly miss my flight. Since it's JFK the flight still left an hour late...why not.
I arrived safely in Paris about 6:20am tuesday where Marie met me and then we proceeded to traverse the city with my luggage by subway and bus where I managed to only get sworn at a few times in French. Not so bad :) Planning on watching the inauguration which will be on at 6pm Paris time and trying to relax and take in the fact I'm in PARIS. It still hasn't hit me yet-and I really don't feel like I'm actually in Paris. I just don't think I've truly taken the time to think about what I'm going through and allow myself to be excited. Tomorrow Marie and I plan on checking out the neighborhood where I'll be living. Hopefully that will be the trigger I need.
So until my next update I look forward to hearing from everyone and if you have skype my name is kputnam4.

Bisous,
Katie