Like the Backwards Episode of Seinfeld, Just Less Entertaining

okay this computer is very stupid so please read this post starting from the bottom and then go up *GO BACKWARDS*** thank you! everything is numbered for your enjoyment.


7. Today we did the Eiffel Tower and Arc du Triumph but once again its rainy and freezing cold so we did the Arc really quickly and vowed to go back to the eiffel tower later tonight when the line has died down. and we are gonna go right to the top! Im so excited! We leave Paris tomorrow morning (at the wee hour of 6am) to go to Amsterdam! So excited! Hopefully it will be warmer and sunnier there....6. Anyway, after partying with the Parkers we headed up to Montmartre and were further impressed with Paris. Wow such a beautiful area. very hilly with cobblestone streets and artists everywhere. We had another fantastic meal then went for a walk. in front of the Sacre Coure cathedral were tons of people sitting on the steps watching a silent film that was on a huge screen down below in the park. And there was even an a band playing music to the movie and everything, it was the coolest thing ever. We stayed for awhile and enjoyed it. Man i love Paris.

5. You see, even before we left for Europe we have been trying to come up with a plan to get into Tony Parker and Eva Longorias wedding because we knew wed be in Paris on the day theyd be here getting hitched. And it would have been perfect because i lilke famous people and Steve loves basketball (even tho im sure hed prefer a wedding for someone on the Pistons but whatever). We just barely missed their St. Tropez pre party and this inspired us to figure out a way to get an invite into their wedding. But we got lazy and gave up. And then as we are walking down the street minding our own buisness, we actually stumbled upon the event! It was crazy how many papparazi were there and how big their cameras and lenses were and how much security there was! It was absolutly crazy to witness.

4. After the Lourve we found another great resteraunt and had the greatest meal ever. So far the food in France has been the best by miles (excluding Italy of course). We went to bed immidiately after as we were sooooo tired from our Lourve day. Yesterday, we walked the entire city! We started with the Pantheon which was very cool as it has a pendulum in it and a huuuggggeee crypt with lots of interesting people buried there like Victor Hugo and Marie Curie. Next we went to the Nortre Dame Cathedral which was so huge and gothic but not our favourite place (way too many people, but i guess thats what happens when free admission). Then we decided to make the trip back to teh Lourve to pick up some gifts for Steves sister Sharon whos very into art and such and requested some items) and thats when we found it.....





3. Now we are in Paris and im loving it! Weve done all the touristy stuff and eaten so well and been EVERYWHERE!!!!! At first the metro system was impossible to understand and it was absolute hell to get to our hostel with our huge packs on, trying to figure it all out, getting frustrated, trying to understand whether a posted map was for the bus, train or metro, etc but now we are getting around soooo easily. Also, we finally encountered the rude french parisian thing, people here suck. But we sort of expect it so it hasnt been all that bad.Our first night we had a very nice French meal and then hung out at a pub in order to feel a bit more at home. The next day we hit the Louvre good and hard. We did almost 6 hours there! and it hurt! but we survived. Although i dont care for anything more about ancient egypt ever again. We thought it would be cool to start with egypt but after an hour of the same artifacts over and over again, we were starting to go crazy. Any any time we tried to go see something else, we always ended up back in ancient egypt! This got us to start saying things like "the Louvre sucks" and caused us to begin to refer to it as "the Loo" so we decided a break might be in order. And we were right, after a coffee outside away from the museum, we returned refreshed and began to enjoy it again. For the last few hours we were there we saw tons of cool Greek statues (although Steve often was frightened by them, thought they looked like they were staring at him and that they could come alive at any minute.....see now my fear of the dark doesnt seem quite so irrational DOES IT??) and then lots of Italian art. The art was the greatest part, especially this one painting that sits oppisite the Mona Lisa. Its absolutly huge, takes up the whole wall, and we eavesdropped on a tour guide explaining the picture so we got to find out so many little details about it. It was very DaVinci Codeish.

biarritz on a nice day (as we were leaving pretty much)



2. We left Bordeaux the next day and went to Biarritz and oh my god we loved it. Its a total surfing town and so of course, we had to try it out. And both of us are now convinced we should devote our lives to nothing other than surfing. It was so so so much fun and we spent almost the entire day surfing! for the first bit we had a lesson and then later on we rented boards. And as it got later and the tide higher, we really started to get thrown around by the waves. In the end we emerged so so sooooo sore with bruises all over us but wow i cant wait to do it again....whenever that might be....the waves on lake Ontario arent really condusive to surfing you see, but one day well get back out there.the only bad thing about our time there was teh weather. it was so cold and rainy! which seems to be the theme of our trip. Because of this we decided to check out another oceanarium in order to have some shelter for a few hours, it wasnt as good as Lisbons but they had seals which was cool! Then after we braved the rain to take some cool photos of the very angry ocean and scenery. It was soooo cold and we got completely soaked but it was totally worth it.


1. Wow weve done so much since the last post! The wine tasting tour in Bordeaux was pretty fun, we went to two different chateaus and tried 4 different kinds of wine. We were sorta bored for most of it as our tour guide was some old french lady with a boring voice but the second cheateua we went to was run by people who genuinely seemed excited abotu what they were doing. They were a pretty young family too and they took us out to the vineyards and really explained a lot of things like what different leaves look like for different types of grapes. and yes this is kind of boring info but you see now we at least have one piece of wine info to tell people and pretend we are really smart wine conneseurs.