ok, its been a while. we qrrived in rennes last night, after disovering even further the incapability for the majority of the french people to be helpful. it took us 3 hours to find our train out of paris to rennes. and then we almost had our packs sent to a different station than we were artriving at. apparently in europe, the trains split off and go to different destinations, so you not only have to get the right train, you have to get on the right car of the right train. all of this infor,ation you have to get off of a ticket that is wriiten soley in french. now we know. figuring that out is quite an amusing story...but too long and thats not what i want to blog about. lol. i think ive said enough about the choas that is the public transportation sysyem around here. haha.
anyways...Paris. LOVE THAT CITY!!!!! Once we exited the seventh circle of hell, we discovered why everyone says paris is their favorite city. it was amazing!!! when we finally got to our hotel (HOTEL not hostel...our room had a blowdrier.) we made the executive decision that we would shower and put on our one dress and blow dry our hair and see paris looking like actual girls, rather than he/shes that ar dirty and gross. (fyi...we now call ourselves marines...becuase we have not lost our positive attitude once...well, not really. we have lost our kindhearted attitude towards others many times, in particular the creepy male population of france. i have assumed the role of man killer on occasion. but other than that, we are troopers...lol) So yeah, we got on our dresses (you know its bad if i WANT to wear a dess...) and explored the outer campus of the louvre. (our hotel was litterally just feet from the louvre...) they have an outdoor statue garden park thing...which is free and completely beautiful, so we just moseyed around there and unwinded from the day of horror...actually, the 3 days of horror. lol. We ate dinner at a typical french cafe...and i had the best chicken eggplant sandwhich thing OF ALL TIME!!! with a lovely cup of cafe au lait. needless to say, from that point on, paris was my friend.
The next day (totally rocked the dress again...) we went through the notre dam (erin, i was thinking of you...fondly...)...very awesome, climbed the 422 stairs to the top of the tower and saw the panoramic view of the city. ( we also found out that they have this river cruise/ferry that you can hop off and on all day to get to all the sites of paris. it is deffinatly a better experience to float down the sienne under all of the bridges of paris than take the underground death trap otherwise called the paris metro.)
a note on the louvre:
completely amazing...i really cant describe the experience. we only saw one wing (well...i saw a little more because i went in the next day for a while too...saw the apart,ments of napolean. two words...gold leaf!!! everywhere, on everything!!! and i did get stuck in there....could not find my way out!!! so really i saw the apartments of napoleon 7 times. haha)
we went in the wing of all of the itialian art (because we had to see the mona lisa...and did. wow) there are paintings in there that are bigger than a movie screen, that were completed within a year, start to finish. amazing. yeah, there really is too way too much to say about that to fit in this blog. the only thing that sucked about it was the fact that everything is in french, so if you dont know what youre looking at before you get in there, you just dont know what youre looking at. quite a bummer.
also a bummer, because of the check out time at our hotel, and the extremely long queu at the eiffel, we only had time to get up to the second level. we never made it to the top. :( oh well... we got up that much at least.
anyways, paris was completely lovely, and i deffinately want to go back, if it wasnt so expensive, we would have cancelled our time in rennes and just spent it all there. but it is such an expensive city!!!
anyways, we are now in rennes. and we have learned that just because the hostel picture in the website looks nice, does not mean the hostel does. the alleged "river" that our charming little hostel was on is really a muddy canal with a hideous concrete building as our hostel. lol. oh well, its clean and safe, and we get a private room, which you dont notice you miss until you get in one. haha. however, the rest of rennes (other than where we are staying...figures) is a really cool town...completely french. everyone walks around with their baguettes that they got at the patisserie. well spend like a day and a half here and then head to the south of france.
but yes, i think that is all for now, oh wait! i left all of my addresses at home on accident, so if you want a postcard better comment me with your address. and hopefully we can get up some pics of paris while we are here. keep the stories coming in the comments, i really love getting them, i just dont have enough time to comment back really becuase we have to pay for internet time. love you all!!
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I'm really glad Paris turned out better. Did u see the glass pyramid outside the Louvre? Ah I would love to be there. Just makes me think of those cheesy Paris Cafe cds at walmart. haha what a thing to remind u of while you're exploring so much culture...walmart. :) Well, i miss u lots and I hope the south of france is lovely and less Horror-filled than your last few days. :) I dont really have any stories to tell except that finals are almost arriving and i'm excited for that :)
I knew you'd love Paris!--all that coffee, food and history. I think the south of France will be great too. Rennes sounds "beautiful, charming, wish I were there". I'll keep this short, since you have to pay for "air time". Love you and miss you,
mom
wow...ALL THAT ART!!!! Man,you know I'm drooling over here!!!! AHHHH!!! How incredible it must be!!! I really miss you...thanks for calling the other day...hilarious!!! ROTFL!!! STILL!!! HA!! Oh, by the way, I have a new phone number...long story, but here it is, 360-561-5597. Neway, I love you...talk to you later.
arc de triumph? Moulon Rouge ::laughs:: Eiffel tower? Notre Dame? Did you think of me? Did you see a lot of little Asians everywhere? (especially ones guardnig the mona lisa)
Urraco update: We hired Leah Rothrock. (love her). We got shirts in (im wearing mine tomorrow. My last day for the summer quarter is Friday
...and badfinger member came in. He told us how his girlfriend's daughter turned 2, so he gave her 2,000 dollars. ("because hes gotta do something"). He was also telling us the riveting story of his 40th bday party with Paul Mccartney, Elton John, Heart, Joe Perry,(among many others).
Salem sliced his finger open today (right index of course). With his Knife. he was opening boxes and it shut on his joint. He went to the ER (of course he needed me to be there "EeeeeeRiiiin!") and he got a tetanus shot, 2 shots of novicane to numb the finger to get 3 stiches. He cut is capsule - hopefully not his tendon. (they dont think so, as he can move it relatively well).
Miss you!
Glad to hear of all your culture you were yearning to soak up.
Love you!
-E
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