Atrasadas, pero llegamos!

(wow, there are practically no letters on these keys, sorry for any mistakes I make in typing!) Paris! Wow, wow, wow... there are no words that are wirthy of this city. I always wondered how people could fall in love with a city, but now I underdstand. In three days, I saw almost all of the ´´famous´´ points of interest (except for the catacombs...

Paris was our ticket out of Europe. We had one more day there so we saw a little bit more. Went to La Defense in Downtown. It's the UFO looking thing inside the big square thing. weird. The 3 Ducks Hostel SUCKS!!! do NOT ever stay there. In fact, while in Paris, stay at Aloha, and pay 3 Ducks a visit just to tell them how much they suck! hah! We...

The last jaunt of the SVONE was in gay Paree and an unthinkable hostel! To be fair, we'd actually only booked it on the premise than it was called the Three Ducks - never book a hostel for its name! - so it wasn't as if we *wanted* to stay there. Being woken up by the metro right beneath the room at an unearthly hour was the least of its problem...

Woke up at 11:30, got a phone call from the front desk saying "You must leave now!". Hectic morning, racing around getting ready and packing everything. Got back to the train station (Gare Nord) and had some breakfast there (pan au chocolate....YUM!). Was kinda uneasy about trying French but got over it. Learned quickly that "Bonjour! Parlez vou...

Day 68 - This morning we checked out of the hostel and left our bags at the front desk. Karla wanted to look at some big shinies so we pretended that we had money and went around to the diamond stores looking at what they had. If anything, this was good for me because the price of diamonds is quite staggering and I think Karla realized that if s...