We thought we were prepared for our long-awaited trip to Paris. We had our advance tickets for the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, two days on the Batobus (river boat) and another two days on a hop-on, hop-off tour bus, a full-day trip to Normandy and a show at the Moulin Rouge. My traveling buddy, TJ, had brushed up on her limited French.