Paris = Fail (Spring Break part 1)

I guess it should have been obvious from the way our trip started that the first part of our spring break was just not going to work out well for us. Emily and I headed out Friday the 2nd around noon to catch a train to the Pisa airport, we managed to miss TWO trains and it was like a scene out of a movie, Emily and I were literally running after the train, me holding on to the railing of the door trying to jump on... Fail # 1. Once we acutally made it on the plane the turbulance was so bad that people were screaming and yelling thinking we were going to crash. No it wasn't just a couple stupid girls being over dramatic its was like a fourth of the passengers... I was laughing but still, Fail # 2. Our hostel was surprisingly very nice, we stayed at St. Christophers and it was very clean, new and fun. One strange thing though, one of our roomates was a 60 year old man. Very strange. Anne and Monica were staying at the same hostel that first night so we all met up and went to dinner at this place that Elysia recommened. That would be the 3rd Fail. It was supposidly unlimited wine and fondu but what we got was one "baby bottle" (litterally a bottle, nipple and all) of wine and little pieces of bread with cheese that was mostly bitter tasting oil. To get a second bottle of wine we had to pay another 2 euro so for 20 euro I ate so bread crumbs and some wine. Waste of money. After dinner we went to a bar that was fine but then tried to go to some posh clubs. Unfortunately our crew was not a group of 6 foot models weighing in at 85 pounds wearing Christian Louboutins so getting into the club called VIP Lounge was Fail # 4.

Oil/cheese... yum (NOT)

Our Second day we woke up and climbed to the highest point in paris Saint Pierre de Montmartre. While the church was beautiful, the view it self was less than impressive. With rainy gray skies and grey buildings to match, I definitly would not list Paris as one of the prettier cities I've seen. Then we hiked on over to the Effiel Tower which may have been cooler if the line to climb it wasn't 4 hours long. Emily and I went on a bike tour though that was acutally one of the high lights of the trip. Our guides name was Seth and he was really cool and reminded me a lot of Michael which was really wierd. We saw everything there is to see in Paris and we even got Seth to take us to Notre Dame which wasn't orginally on the agenda. We took a break though to get a beer and while we were sitting out side there was literally a torrential down pour. We then proceeded to ride our bikes through that, Fail # 5. A really pretty rainbow resulted though and it was right over the Louve which was sweet but I still didn't like getting all wet.

Fat Tire bike Tours. If you happen to be unlucky enough to go to paris at least take this tour. it was acutally pretty fun and intresting to learn about the history:)

Day 3: Easter. Fail #6. Nothing is open on Easter... Except the louve and since it was the first sunday of the month that ment it was free entrance. Free entrance means a line that took forever just to find the end. Definitly not waiting in that. We spent the rest of the day walking down the Champs Elysees and going into stores. There was a hail storm. Fail #7. While waiting for the weather to chill out we popped into Sephora. It was ENORMOUS. We spent a good hour in there putting on all sorts of make up. We walked out looking like hookers with "Smokey eyes" and red lipstick at 4 in the afternoon. That night Emily and I chilled at the hostel bar and met a bunch of people from all over. We befriended a guy named Jacob who is acutually from the US and Glynn from the UK. I don't remember the rest of their names but they were from all over, one scottish, a couple Aussies, and even a French guy... of course he was the least friendly though. Ha

Day 4: Mondays are considered holidays. Fail # 8. We took the trip out to see the Court of Versilles, the French sure do love thier gold. Of course it was closed though so rather than going inside we could only walk around the massive gardens in the back. They were really pretty and it was cool to see the estate but I would have really liked to see the inside as well. For dinner we got Sushi which was delicous and that night we went out to a few differnt bars with our new friends. It was a lot of fun except for the cab ride home. We hadn't even drank that much but for some reason both Emily and I got sick. I do not know if it was the Sushi we had or what but we were both puking out of our respective doors in the cab. That would have been a cute picture for sure. Fail # 9

Outside the Gate to the Palace

Day 4: We wanted to see Moulin Rouge before we left for spain so we went to the metro that we had been taking the last 3 days. We bought the same day pass we had also been using which apparently is only a weekend pass (Monday included, strange i know). When our tickets did not work it didn't occur to us that maybe we had bought the wrong one but since no one was around to help us we just decided to hop over the railing. FAIL #10. Of course there were 8 security gaurds waiting on the other side. They grabbed us and charged us each 50 euro. Bye bye 75 dollars. I tried to explain that we did not know the ticket was just for the weekend and that it was what we were using for the previous 3 days but this stupid bitch just kept saying (in a perfect AMERICAN accent might i add) "I don't speak english, its not my fault you don't speak french" Alright lady, I know you are bitter that you are a rent-a-cop but no need to take it out on us, YOU are the reason people think French people are rude. When we acutally got to Moulin Rouge it was nothing spectacular, took a picture and went to find lunch. We got nachos and quesadillas, wrong country.

When we finally boarded our flight to Madrid I could not tell you how happy we were. Though the first 4 days of our spring break may have been awful the final 5 days made up for it for sure!!!