I'll catch you up on what has happened since getting back from jolly old England. Marc and Pattie accompanied us to Paris taking the Chunnel again. We got right after touring around again. We walked from the hotel, down the Champs Elysee the important street in Paris. It's where they have military parades and it's where the Tour de France finishes. On this particular day there was a soccer game. It was Portugal vs. Brazil. While we were walking there were Portugese people everywhere waving flags, singing, driving down the road flags waving and horns honking. The Brazil fans looked like someone died. At this point I assumed that Portugal had absolutely dominated Brazil, I mean the score had to be 5-0 or something. Only later I would find out that the actual score was 0-0. It was a tie. A freaking tie. No one in any sport should ever ever be that excited for a tie. That is why Americans don't care about soccer. Ties are for losers. ANYWAYS..............
We walked up the Champs Elysee to the Arch de Triumph. It's AWESOME. It's a huge arch that is home to France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It's way cool. I was really impressed with it.
We then walked down another street on our way to see the Eiffel Tower. The tower is purdy impressive but compared to everything else in Paris it is actually a really ugly building. It's just a bunch of beams and columns that are now kind of reddish rusty. We took pictures anyways and headed back to the hotel.
The next day we wanted to see a the impressionist museum and Notre Dame. This day actually happened to be a Sunday. This means no entry into Notre Dame on the account of mass I believe. I'm not even sure we got pictures but I'll go back sometime since I have all the time in the world to see everything. We continued walking and reached an area full of little shops. It was kind of cool to see everything down there. We soldiered on to the museum to find that it was closed at 5pm which is ridiculous for a museum to close so early. Jenny and I are going to hit that one up tomorrow (Thursday).We headed back and got cleaned up for dinner. We went to a little Irish Pub to grab a few beers for the USA vs Ghana soccer game. Beers were completely unreasonably expensive. They were good though. We left at half time and went to a little restaurant to have something to eat. I had a little baguette sandwhich and we had some wine as we watched the Americans blow it but as I stated before, I really don't care.
Marc and Pattie left in the morning and Jenny and I made it to our apartment for the remainder of the summer. It has everything of a regular apartment but only smaller. That is the same with everything in Europe.
Monday was Jenny's first day of work. This left me at the mercy of the French population for the first time ever. As I learned from my Army training I should probably scope out the surrounding territory. South looks purdy boring. It's a very heavy residential area so not many shops and what not. I did find a basketball court so I might have to invest a few euros and get a basketball so I can dominate some Frenchies. I didn't do much that day. I hung out most of the day updating my blog then I went to the Trocadero with the FIFA Fan Fest and the view of the Eiffel Tower and had a couple beers and watched a soccer game.
That night we met up with Jenny's friends from her Arcachon classes. It was alright we ate super expensive cafe food (never again). The bakeries are much cheaper or the street vendors and its just as good. We called it a night early.Yesterday (Tuesday) I bought a baguette in the morning from a bakery, some sausage from the super market and headphones from the walgreens wannabe store. In the store I was asked something by a nice french old lady to which I replied by staring like an idiot. She laughed and moved on. Later I met up with my old roommate and one of Jenny's classmates, Nick Dial. We visited the Arch de Triumph and Eiffel Tower. I went back to the apartment to meet up with Jenny so we could then ride the subway way up to north Paris to meet up with her friends again. We had some actually cheaper beer and their hostel (cheapish hotels). We then went to the Trocadero along with thousands of people to watch Portugal vs. Spain. This place was packed. My pictures are from when there was barely anyone there this was absolutely crazy. Spain one so they were crazy happy. Portugal lost so they were assholes. There was one point crossing the street where the light was red these people crossed. Someone got bumped by a lady driving a car. They freaked up and started pounding on her car. Then one Spanish fan actually kicked out her passenger side window. Ridiculous. Seriously what was that about. At this point I was really mad, I was hungry and there were crazy people around that I couldn't understand and I went into defensive mode. We finally got back to our apartment late. Woop exciting day.
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