And I feel fine!

It’s the beginning of the end as we know it… It’s a great song, but when put in “context” in the middle of a trip half way around the world, you start to think about the words and not just the tune. Matty, Pinky, and I have embarked on a trip, today being the first day of our adventure. So far, the only things we have to show are half a dozen scorched eggs, which we all ate whole-heartedly.

We started in Seattle, only to find out that we were not flying out of “Seattle”… the airport is not located in the city. But with Matty at the wheel, we were on our way. London was our first stop, with a four hour layover, which soon turned into five hours. (we needed the extra beauty sleep). We finally got on our plane and were off for Switzerland. 11:45pm, we found Pinky waiting for us and before you knew it, we were on the road, back to the school where he RA. We drove threw France, for just a brief second (we’ll be going back) and headed into the country side of Germany. The only plans for today are, hiking, check out a castle, and maybe… sleep a little!!! Watch out Europe, WE ARE HERE!!! Such a wild group we are!!

Paris at last!

Paris at last! We learned something very important about travelling in this city. You have to make sure that you have a hostel picked out and reserved before you get to the city. We got to Paris yesterday around 5 in the evening and had quite a bit of trouble finding someone to give us directions to a hostel. Nathan finally scored and was able to get clear directions to a hostel. Turns out they only had room for one night and they ended up putting Josh and Nathan in one room and me in another room with a family that I think was from Spain.

My allergies were bothering me a little bit, so I was scared about snoring loudly and making the other people in the room uncomfortable with my loud American behaviors, but after hearing 3 of the 5 members of that family snoring louder than I, I was able to relax and drop off to sleep. This morning I woke up about 4:30 AM and wasn’t able to get to sleep until 6:30 or so. We were planning on having breakfast at 7:00, so this wasn’t much use to me.

Actually, apparently I’m the only one having breakfast today, as it is 8:45 AM and Nathan and Josh haven’t come down yet…Maybe I should go wake them up…

Anyways, the plan for today is to reserve tickets for the high speed train to Rome on Sunday, visit the Louvre, go have lunch in the Latin Quarter, check out the Eiffel Tower, and hopefully hit as many landmarks as possible on our way back to the other hostel.

I guess that’s all for now…I’m going to go wake up the boys and get them started