Thursday, September 29, 2011

I Hate Revising Papers, So There's No Way I'm Revising My Blog

Woke up. Got ready and was going to head to the train station to head to Paris, jokes on me I forgot my shoes in Katie and Ali's room but for whatever reason they are at the train station obnoxiously early so i have to ask walter, the manager of the residence, to open their door only to find out that he had to stop some Russians from coming to our room last night and basically kicking our ass because we were playing Farkle and talking too loud. Anyways, got the shoes and ran to the train station hopped on a speed train that got us to Paris in under 2 hours, I glad;y watched 2.5 episodes of Sons of Anarchy on the train, when we arrived in Paris and got out of the train station it looked a lot like Antwerp. So we walked to our hotel and checked in Mike and I are sharing a room, i'm on the top bunk where its ridiculously hot. Then the group met up and we took the subway, which was super hot and really packed with people, we followed Dr. Newell Wright, aka New aka Newy aka Snoop Doggy New aka Dubya anyways. followed him to Notre Dame, the place was basically amazing and the inside was just as impressive, huge stained glass windows and monuments inside. No hunchback spotting though. After that we hopped onto the subway and found ourselves at the Palace Royal aka the fricken Louvre! I was so jacked, seeing the glass pyramids got me really excited we didnt go inside because we were on a general sightseeing tour but we will be going there tomorrow and looking around. We then walked our way to the Obelisk where Mary Antoinette was killed also an interesting sight. Then we hopped onto of course, more subways and ended up at the most notorious round about in the world, Napoleons own Arc de Triomphe! This too was an amazing sight to see, this is when it felt like all the stuff we see in movies is really real, being there in person felt so unreal. After some photos is was once again time to move on, back to the subway and finally at the Eiffel Tower, kinda. We ended up on a few blocks away from the viewpoint of the Eiffel Tower so we took a bunch of photos. Again it felt weird seeing something you read about and see in movies and books. It was truly breathtaking. Tomorrow we too will go to and on the Eiffel Tower. More subways now, and we ended up on a street that I cant think of off the top of my head but i guess it's one of the most expensive blocks of shops in the world. The only thing i bought off this block was a Sprite from McDonalds because it was so hot  and i was so tired and thirsty that i was willing to pay 2.50 euro for a medium drink. We ate at some little italian resturaunt that served these super flat bread pizza like meals and my goodness it was scrumptious (thank you thesaurus.com delicious was voted most overused word in this blog). There were a bunch of different kinds, cheese, pepperoni, mushroom, potatoe, then for dessert they had banana chocolate and cinnamon apple on the same type of flat pizza. After being super stuffed we walked and subwayed our way to an overpass, turns out it was the one Princess Diana died at, we had no idea this was ganna be on the tour so it was really fascinating to find out where we were. After that we got on a huge tour boat and got a tour of Paris, we sat on top of the boat and got to see the Eiffel Tower light up and sparkle and took some really excellent night picture of it. Seeing the Eiffel Tower at night was something i didn't have on my bucketlist but now that Ive seen it I've added it and crossed it off it was spectacular to say the least. After the boat ride we walked ourselves to the hotel because Dr. Wright straight up abandoned us. Since being back I took a shower and the shower head has little LED bulbs to depending on the temp of the water you can take a shower in different colors, it may or may not have blown my mind. But now the whole 10 miles of walking today is telling me to go to bed.

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