Tuesday, June 28, 2005

   France and new love
Hey everybody. im home from my trip to france and england ^_^. i went to a bunch of places, i went to nice, paris, monaco, eze, and london. The first day was the plane ride there. it was really long but the ride didnt bother me at all. then we landed and switched over to another plane to fly to nice (pronounced neice). Nice is in the south of france, and our hotel was right on the mediterranian. The rooms were kinda small, but thats ok. the first day all we did was ride the plane.then we got to the hotel, droped off our stuff, and went to get dinner. Later on at the hotel it was me, my roomate piar, and 2 of my friends, grace and ashley. i layed down on the bed and ashley was kinda playing with my hair. Then on the second day we went out with our tour group (wich was kids from my school) and saw the city. it was really cool. they had most of the shops and stuff in small beautiful allyways between the old buildings. then we ate dinner and had time to go off in smaller groups to explore the city more. after we went back to the hotel, we were kinda havin a party in grace and ashleys room. a bunch of people were in there. they decided that they were gonna go get some alchohal and get a little tipsy. i thought it was a dumb idea, but i guess its legal cuz the drinking age in france is 16 i herd. i didnt drink, and neither did ashley, but other then that the rest of the people did. after everybody else left the room it was like 4 am, so i just said i dont feel like goin to my room, so i slept in grace and ashley's room. The next day we went with the group and went to a small city called eze, where we went to see how they make perfum. it was kinda interesting. then we went to monaco, wich is like a really small country, thats near nice. its the richest country in the world. we went to this palace thing, and went to a cool cathedral. then we went back to nice for dinner. Then at night it happend to be the nice annual music festival. a whole lot of bands were playing in the streets and along the beach. it was really awesome! it was suprising how many bands were playing american songs. it was like a huge city wide party! the next day was a free day so we just wandered the city with our friends. me and ashley and grace and jessica and piar were walking and we ended up goin to this park called parc de chateau. it was were a castle used to be, but it was destroyed. there was alot of steps, and 2 cemitaries, and a park, and lots of stuff like that. the next day we took a train to paris, and the ride sucked cuz the train smelled like fish. it was really gross. in paris we checked into our room then went out to the city for an early dinner. while we were still in the hotel i asked ashley to be my girlfriend. im happy to say that she said yes ^_^ it turns out that she's had a crush on me since before summer vacation. shes really nice and funny and pretty. il show you a picture of her. On the way to dinner it started raining, and i forgot my umbrella in the hotel, but it was hot outside, so i wasnt complaining,lol. but it was done after dinner. then we had a boat ride down the seine river, then finnaly at night we went to the eiffle tower. I kissed Ashley at the top of the eiffle tower. it was really romantic. Im really happy that im going out with her, becuase for the first time in a while i dont feel lonley and depressed. Back in the hotel i slept with her in her room. now dont confuse my words here, we just slept, not fucked, just slept, get it right, lol. we ended up sleeping with each other for the rest of the trip, even though we wernt supposed to. shh, dont tell lol. The next day we saw the castle of Versallies, wich was amazing,went to the NotreDame catherdral, and went to the louvre museum. Versallies was huge, and every room was filled with marble floors, and huge paintings, and gold everywhere. its was the most beautiful and expensive building i have ever seen. if somebody would have told me to imagine the most extravagant and exquisit building i could imagine, it still wouldnt have measured up to Versallies. The louvre was cool, but we didnt have enough time to see everything. we did see the mona lisa, wich was really not all that exciting. i just dont see what makes it better then the rest of the paintings. the whole time we were in the louvre and in versallies me and ashley were holding hands. actually we were pretty much side by side the whole trip. the next day we took another train (but this one didnt smell bad) to london. in london we saw alot of places. the thing i remember most was picadilly circus, wich was not a circus at all but like the times square in america. we also went to convent garden, wich was another place like that. then after that we went to the first Hard Rock Cafe. on then next day we saw the changing of the guard at buckingham palace. we also saw the mellinium bridge. We went to the london tower, wich was one of my favorite things of the whole trip. its a big, mideval fortress. inside there was armor rooms, and alot of swords and spears and cannons. there were these two huge Claymors (swords) that had to be at least 7 or 8 feet long. after that we went to see big been and the parlimentary building. we took some pictures, then the teacher gave me quite the suprise. she gave me the map and told me that i had to lead the group home. we had to go on the subway and walk through the city. I was really nervous, becuase she said that nobody could help me, even if we were going the wrong way. i was afraid that i would get us all lost, but i did just fine and we all got back to the hotel safe ^_^. i didnt want to do it at the time, but now im glad that i did, so if im ever lost in a city like that i will know how to get us home. Ashley slept in my room, then in the morning we went to the airport to come back home. on the plane we were talking about how it was going to be kinda weird to sleep alone again, lol. There was this girl in our group that lost her ticket, and the teacher gave her her ticket, and the teacher stayed behind in london instead. The girl was crying becuase she was afraid she was going to be stuck in england while everybody else went home. but the teacher stayed and is going to get a flight home tommorow, and the girl will just have to pay for the plane ticket for the teacher to get home. This whole expereance is something that il never forget.


heres a pic of ashley. isnt she pretty?


this is a picture of the tour group in nice. u can see me, im near the middle with the long black hair


heres another picture of the group in nice, i dont think im in this one


heres us by the eiffle tower.


this is us at the beautiful chateau of Versallies.


the awesome tower of london. its less of a tower and more of a castle, lol. you can see me wearing a black ac dc shirt in the back on the left side.

Well i know that this has been a really long post, but i have been doing alot of stuff, so i wanna say thanks if u actually read it ^_^. talk to u later
-alex
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