Notes on the French Excursion

I thought I would have more time to go through and write really detailed blogs about each day in France, but I'm back in Berlin now, which means lots of school work and now a more exciting social life. Therefore, I'm just going to post the little bullet points that I made about every day in France. I probably forgot a few things, and if you want more details about certain things, feel free to ask :)

Day 1 – bus trip

-       So long. 9:15 – 11:36

-       Sitting at front of bus awesomeness/terror

-       Too many stops

-       Gorgeous country side

-       P forgets her name is P

-       M and Br join the front

-       Stop motion

Day 2

-       Boat tour

-       Gorgeous weather/sunburn

-       Walking to Champs Elysees

-       Eating at that Italian place

-       Going up Arc de Triumph

-       Strolling to the Eiffel tower

-       Drinking at the Eiffel tower

-       Grabbing gross dinner followed by delicious crepe

-       Going to a fail bar, then finally going to a club and dancing for 2 hours!

Day 3

-       Left for Notre Dame just in time to catch a little bit of the sermon while wandering around the cathedral

-       Wandered around a bit, made our way to the Catacombs, but decided it was too expensive and too long of a line

-       Headed towards Napoleon’s tomb, which is gorgeous! Saw the tomb then strolled through the World Wars museum. Got in for free for being an EU member

-       Delicious Pho with P and L

-       Solo walk around town… sketch area. Random man, probably trying to pick pocket me, asks if I'm a painter.

-       Delicious Crepes with P and L

Day 4

-       Chartres --- most boring tour ever. Don’t care about stained glass windows

-       Exploring around Chartres rocked. Delicious Indian food lunch (the cheapest real meal I had in France)

-  Don't remember what happened when we got back. 

Day 5

-Versailles – huge, lame ass Japanese art everywhere, ‘sploring the gardens

- going to a club, only a few of us getting in, walking around paris at 4 in the morning in the rain

Day 6

-       Cathacombs, my leg dies

-       Miss out on the Louvre

-       Real French dinner at Bastille, so tasty

Day 7

-       Leave for Caen, so much better than Paris, at this point we all know to sleep when we get on the bus

-       Caen-Normandy Memorial Museum, lame movies that I slept through, taking the city bus home instead of walking

-       Falling in love with “menus” – tasty Salmon pasta dinner

-       Exploring around Caen with M in the middle of the night, finding hooker ally

Day 8

-       Omaha Beach – gorgeous!

-       Caving and eating McD’s for lunch because the line at the other place was too long

-       US cemetery at Colville-sur-Mer, really emotional

-       Exploring the blown up bunkers

-       Back to Caen, more delicious French “menus”

Day 9

-Bus home…. Everyone sleeps for the first 5 hours, so much better than the first bus over

General stuff

-       France is wicked expensive, Paris smells awful, would have much rather stayed in Caen longer and missed a day or two in Paris

-       Finally finding myself a great group of friends, beginning to feel more at home now that I have good friends. Beginning to feel less homesick, but still craving delicious Chinese food

I'll be posting some pictures and my stopmotion of the bus ride in a day or two!