Hello! Bonjour!
Sorry it has been so long again. I've been busy busy traveling everywhere haha. My trip from Iowa to Paris was quite smooth. I didn't know if I should take the train when I got to Chicago or just take a taxi, sooooo I decided to get up at 4am and leave just in case I decided to ride the 2 hour train to the airport. I ended up getting to Chicago around 8am just in time for morning traffic. This again reminded me why I absolutely hate cities. I called the cab company and found out it was only 25 bucks to get a ride to the airport. I chose the cab because it only took 30 min. Chicago airport is supposedly very big but I didn't see much of it because my gate was literally right next to the security checkpoint. Since I was such a go getter in the morning my reward was waiting for 4 hours in the airport before my flight. I didn't do very much just mainly listened to music and watched the president of BP talk about how sorry he was and the congressmen in charge pretending to be mad while getting paid by oil companies at the same time.
The ride to Montreal was very nice. Air Canada is awesome. There were little TVs in the headrests complete with movies and everything. I watched the movie Invictus with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Its about the Apartheid in South Africa and the sport of rugby. I landed in Canada and made a quick trip through customs and had another 3 hours to wait. I felt a little overwhelmed because no one in that airport spoke English and I was all alone. I had a pizza and a beer and bought a Montreal Canadiens shirt to fit in.
The ride to Paris was a little more intense. I did get an exit row which was AWESOME. We left at 7:30pm from Montreal. I finished Invictus. Then I watched The Book Of Eli with Denzel Washington. It was kinda like Mad Max except Denzel is awesome and he's working for a good cause. While I ate I was given a nice meal of penne pasta, veggies, bread, a brownie, and some wine. I then drank about 3 more bottles of their wine to try and fall asleep. I think I did sleep for a bit but was then woken up by the sun seemingly minutes later. See we were supposed to land in Paris at 8:30am and something about the time difference and flight time made the flight seem quite short. Needless to say I was a bit of a wreck.
Jenny was there at the airport to pick me up. It was sooooo awesome to see her again!! She said my beard was cool haha but it had to go. We got all my stuff together and went to our hotel. Then we had to bring all her bags to her bosses office so we didn't have to take it all on vacation. We ate at a nice little French cafe, saw the "other" statue of liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and so on. We'll have way more time to see all of these soon. That night we had some sushi and a few drinks and were so exhausted we went to bed early. Flying really takes it out of you.
The next day we got up and me Julie, Marc, and Pattie at the airport to snag Julie from the airplane. We drove out of the city of Paris to the little town of Giverny in the French countryside. For all you art fanatics out there, this is where the French artist Monet lived and worked. The countryside was awesome. It is sooooo green. They have a lot of farm fields with hay, wheat, and canola. They raise Charlais cattle and sheep. The towns are so old and the streets are tiny. It looks just like all the world war 2 movies I've ever watched. We passed a sign in one of these towns (well more of a WW2 memorial) and there were 2 guys from this little town named Prevost so I thought that was kind of cool.
In Giverny we stayed at a cool little hotel slash restaurant. I had my first crepe and it was awesome. We looked around the gardens and Monet's house and it was a nice little day. We went to bed early again because we had to ride the TRAIN to England!! England as you know is separated from France by a little thing known as the English Channel. That story next time haha.
I've having a great time!!
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