So they day has come, its basically our last day together. Super sad. I dont count the next day cuz it sucks. Little did I know this day would be pretty much the most fun I had on this trip.
Wake up bright and early, grab breakfast and hop on the bus. We are all being dropped off at the Eiffel Tower for our group pic and then we have the whole day in Paris.
After this, Ryan takes some to the perfumery, and the rest of us walk to the tower and get in line to go up. Start getting harassed to buy Eiffel Tower stuff, so I ask the guy if he wants to buy my purse for 15 euros. Get our tickets, ride in 5 elevator to get up to the top. Janine gives me her jacket cuz it is COLD up there. (thanks boo) Go to the observation deck and Paris is freaking huge.
When done and on the ground, a bunch of us try to come up with a game plan for the day. I dont know too much about Paris, so V-Mac (who does know alot and knows what to go see) decides the day. While everyone is standing around, trying to figure out where to go, we walk off cuz we are wasting our day! Walk down to the metro station, buy our day pass and hop on the metro thing. Im a moron and left my wallet in my luggage and all I had with me was cash I still needed to exchange so the girls pay my way. Trying to read the metro map line thing is impossible, I step aside and let V-Mac deal with that whole mess :) First stop, Arc de Triomphe. We go underground and and we are there. Walk around, watch the round-about traffic, take pics.
Now, as you know, we are serious power walkers so we walk all the way down more than a mile Avenue des Champs-Elysees (super famous street) and make certain stops along the way and finishing up with dinner at the Eiffel Tower. We stop so I can exchange my cash wouldnt you know theres a Zara store right in front of us. We go and and shop, I can say I officially fell in love with the store that day. Outside is a cute cafe so we walk to it to get lunch. Theres another Zara store (like 2 stores down from the other one...?) We sit and order and while waiting I go into the other Zara and keep shopping :) Come back and we eat, run into Kathleen and Andrew from Atlanta. Back to walking! We go to this fountain that V-Mac had to see, where the Tour de France goes pass and we pose for some more pics. A bachelor party walks up and one of the guys takes is clothes off and is standing there in a speedo, flippers and goggles. He then jumps in the fountain and goes swimming while his friends laugh at him. Time to go to the Louvre! I had just given a presentation on the Louvre and the architect I.M. Pei, so Im flippin excited.
Luckily Ryan had told us to go to the Virgin Megastore to buy our tickets, so we didnt have to wait in line. We did our last YMCA with some random kid I found and went inside. Its really hot inside and they way we navigate museums doesnt help. We know we want to see the Mona and looking thru the brochure we find some more things to go see.
We rush thru, find Venus de Milo (famous armless chick), Nike of Samothrace (which I LOVED in school) some more paintings and sculptures I knew, ran to see some stuff the Veronic/kas wanted to see. Then we go try to find the Notre Dame. Dam that notre, so tricky to find.... "just follow the tourist with fanny packs on!" Harassed by gypsies asking us if we spoke English, V-Mac keeps yelling "nine!" (german) and I just say "no I dont" and walk away haha. Stopped for some crepes, of course.
We wait in a short line and go inside (free I think) Its really dark but its really pretty. We walk around for awhile and as we are leaving I really want a picture of a gypsy and dam-it everytime they came up to me my camera wouldnt work. So this was the best I could do.
We head back down the street to go to a grocery store Ryan had pointed out to us thats underneath a department store. I wanted to recreate another pic I had saw in the brochure, us eating at the Tower. SO...... we are shopping for food, I walk off to go find something and I see this guy standing there staring. Creepy. I walk over to the girls and tell them creeper at 3 o'clock. I walk away from them to grab some food, and someone behind me says "you are so beautiful, you speak French?" uhg creepiest accent ever I just turn and look and start laughing like Im oblivious to what is going on and run to the Veronic/kas. We rush to go check out, the guy is behind us now saying the same stuff. Great I have to go weight the grapes and print off some tag for them, so I turn and laugh at the guy again and walk pass him, print off the tag and go back. V-Mac it literally staring at him with the most evil look on her face, Im laughing, we check out and run up the stairs and run behind a display while ducking. Im peeking above it and see the top of his head. So we decide to run out a side door, and as we are ducking and running, we run right into him, I had the wrong guy. We laugh and freak out and run out the store, across a small street into a pharmacy. They go looking for hand sanitizer and I stand by the door watching for this guy. He is standing across the small street waiting.... this is so freaking creepy. In the doorway Im standing in it is mirrored, so I can watch him without him actually seeing me. We were there for a good 15 minutes and finally one of the girls go and finds a guy who works there and he comes up to me in the doorway and he checks and we dont see the guy anymore. He tells us to dial 17 for emergencies and we leave. V-Lo is freaking out becuse apparently the airlines showed "Taken" on the trip over there. (I hadnt seen it at this point-chick gets kidnapped in Paris-who shows that on a flight to Europe?) So we wander down the street, checking our backs for our stalker. We are trying to walk to the tower but finally decide to get a cab. He drops us off , we stop at a stand and V-Mac gets a beret... duh and I get a coffee mug. Lame.
There is barely anyone in the grass, just some random groups of people hanging out or laying down. We pick a spot and had a picnic of more cheese and bread and wine. We just talked and talked, made fun of the stalker. I noticed V-Lo had a bee on her and she starts trying to get it away and ends up getting stung... "In Paris, you got a beret, you got a bee sting and I got a stalker" This was another one of the best moments of the trip. (the optional excursion was the cabaret show, which I heard was good, but we had no interest in going, and I am soooo happy we didnt.) We had some Austrian guy take pics of us, and again, some of the best from the trip. I will truly remember this moment forever!
Ryan had told us that after the cabaret show, we were all going to meet next door to the Moulin Rouge at O'Sullivans. So we get back to the hotel and get ready for the last night. So, we find the metro and find our way to the bar, we get lost and go the wrong way, get off the thing go up and down stairs, catch other trains, thank God I am not the one who is figuring this out I would have just stayed at the hotel. So, as we are walking down to the platform ahead of us is some black guy with his pants coming down and his hands down like scratching his ass..?? Wtf? We keep walking and the guy is pulling his pants down more and more, he is shitting, yes I said shitting on himself. (We had just walked passed him at this point) This is the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed in my life. We keep walking down and looking back, people just walk pass him, giving him dirty looks but mostly ignoring him. One of the subways blows by and sends his stench all the way down the platform, people are moving farther down to get away but you cant run from the smell!!! I think all 3 of us are gagging and jump on our subway when it pulls up. V-Lo pulls out her hand sanitizer and we all use it cuz we just feel dirty now. (Plus the subways are G R O S S) "In Paris, you got a beret, you got a bee sting, I got a stalker and we all got to see a man shit himself."
We make it to our stop, rush upstairs and there is the Moulin Rouge in front of us.
We go up to the scariest biggest looking bouncers I have ever seen and go in to find out friends. We hang out and drink for awhile and finish up the song re-write. Go outside and they all rehearse. Ryan tries to see if they would let us perform the song (hells no I would not go up there!) but its not hooked up so we outside to a little area in between the streets and everyone is there and they perform the song, and I record it :)
LYRICS (since they all suck at singing... heres the lyrics-this really describes our trip)
You never really think what a trip can be, Hitting it up in London with places to see, It was Aussie's & Kiwi's & USA, Columbia, Brazil, & Canada eh! Making good friends along the way, Drinking all night and passing out all day. After we boarded, stinking with booze, We were off to hit up our 2 week cruise. And it was Fun Fun Fun getting shittered, Fun Fun Fun I need a pisser! Fun Fun Fun & into Amsterdam... We got on our boat cruise, flowing with booze, We walked through the district, and saw lots of BOOBS! We got to the sex show, with "break - fucking" guy, And onto the coffee shop to get really high. And it was Fun Fun Fun, "white widow"" Fun Fun Fun, big black dildo" Fun Fun Fun & into Germany...We hoped on our bike, with Jolly our guide, Skulling some steins, it was a drunk ass ride, Off to the beer halls, for knuckles and steins, We starved for a while, but had a good time. And it was Fun Fun Fun, I fucked my toe up Fun Fun Fun, where's my ass man? Fun Fun Fun & into Austria...
This country had, a kick ass view, Fuck all worth singing too. Windy roads & snowy mountain tops, This describes our 1 night stop. And it was Fun Fun Fun, white water rafting, Fun Fun Fun, cows and grass. Fun Fun Fun, bored off our ass, and into italy... Drinking in public, against the act, Where was our manager, on that fun fact?! Who flew off the bus? It was V-mac, The driver felt up a passengers rack. And it was Fun Fun Fun, fuck all this walking, Fun Fun Fun, bitch stop talking! Fun Fun Fun, I'm fucking hungry!
Had a shit view with, no beer just wine, Onto the club, to have a good time. Got shittered really quick, Gino carried Nick, Had to put up with, 16 year old SHIT! And it was Fun Fun Fun "My bed is outside!" Fun Fun Fun, MYSTERY HOOK UP! Fun Fun Fun & onto Swiss town. We too got pissed, and thrown in a jail, Drinking outside, getting harrased by gay males.
And it was Fun Fun Fun, went up the mountain, Fun Fun Fun, Lion Fountain, Fun Fun Fun & into France. The bus got hit, we all screamed SHIT!!!! Went to a cabert, Hot chicks & gays, End of our trip, that's pretty shit, It's been a blast, memories to last. And it was Fun Fun Fun. Eiffel tower, Fun Fun Fun. I need clean clothes...
(Jason, Noff, Nick, Annika, Brenton, Gino, V-Mac & me)
We head back in and I dont remember much of the ret of the night. Me and Celeste do a shot of Absinthe, which I will blame for my behavior and memory loss ha! I do remember me and her were outside smoking and talking when a bunch of guys surround us and talk to us, and then I remember arms coming out of nowhere, grabbing us everywhere, literally molested in 3 seconds. I grabbed her hand and ran back, I didnt even look across the street for cars I just ran scared as hell. We are looking for anyone we know at that point and I run into Gino and freak out on him telling him what happened. So at this point, Im going to leave a bunch of stuff out..... scandalous.... Everyone whos left is basically shittered and Nick is missing, find him up at the bar later with some chick haaaaa. Time to leave so we are back to standing in that area outside and Im jumping all over Nick taking pictures with the boys. It was so much fun and I barely remember any of it. Nick says we have to get a cab but I dont have money i just have my metro pass (like Im really gonna be able to find my way home?) So Nick or someone has to pay for me, we get back to hotel and Brenton and I go back to the boys room. I remember we said something about staying up all night but we just hang out, Im wrestling Gino, Nick is passing out on the bed next to us, Brentons taking pics of all of it and I have some solid gold creeper shots of Nick watching us~hilarious trust me. So we decide to go to bed I guess cuz we pass out.
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