London to Paris

Sorry we haven't posted in a while. We are in Paris now and we have been very busy.

We hit everything we said we would in London and then some. Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, The Eye (world's largest Ferris wheel), Piccadilly Circus, the national science museum and Princess Dianna's old crib. Piccadilly Circus reminds me of a mini New York City and it also had a huge toy store called Hanley's.... Yes we were in there for about 45 minutes. We went to a pub called Glouchester Arms and got fish and chips and potato mash which was delicious.



You have met Manfred but you haven't mentioned are two Austrian roommates who were the coolest girls from Austria we have ever met, granted we never met anyone from Austria. They taught us some cool phrases that we shouldn't say in public and had a funny time trying to do it. A little bit of liberal came out of me when they told me they get 5 weeks vacation every year. They highly recommended "shnitzles" in Austria.

We then jumped on the the Eurostar train over to Paris. It was a very smooth ride and it was cool to look at the French country land on the way in. When we got to the Paris train terminal we had only our directions that we written on a small piece of paper. We finally made it to the hostel after a very nice french lady gave us the right directions and a page out of here map. We ended up gaining a travel partner in the process named Hitomi. She is 27 and from Japan. She didn't have a room at a hostel and ended up finding one at our hostel. She is traveling by herself without a computer and we are not sure how she does it. haha. We all hung out last night in town since there was some exhibitions going so the city was packed with people and light shows. We slept like rocks.

Our second day consisted of waking up early, eating some bread and scones and going to the Louvre Museum. On the first Sunday of every month entrance is free. Homegirl, Hitomi, rolled with us too. Since it was free we both wanted to get our money's worth and stayed there for about 5 hours. I felt like like the last night i had in Vegas whenI was sleep deprived for 3 days. Clint was a trooper and I would have called it quits two hours in if it weren't for him. The Mona Lisa was the painting that stuck out the most. We could go on forever telling you what we saw because of how huge it was. We stopped at this outdoor food market picked up some really good chicken legs and headed back. Banana Nutella Crepes are amazing too. We both went back to the hostel, slipped into a coma for about 2 hours and then went to get some dinner. We then had a romantic dinner near the Eiffel Tower....no homo.

Peace out until next time....
















SteveClint

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