Paris

Here's some of Chris and I's travel in Paris, and France, probably be the first of 2 or three parts, depending on stuff. Enjoy!

I got to Paris the night before Chris did, so nothing too exciting happened, just hung out with Rachael, who, very kindly, let us stay at her place while we were in Paris.

Of course our first stop was the Eiffel Tower, but because it took us almost 2 hours to find the grocercy store, cause we got lost, we had the first of, ummm i don't know, 35 french lunches which were meat and chesse sandwiches on bauggettes. And while the chesse and bread was awesome, it gets old...

Chris, why the face?

And here was our lunch view, pretty awesome, we got to check out the Eiffel Tower, without the thousands of tourists we would find at the base of it later.

We had to check out the Arc, which is really cool, as you would expect. Whats not cool is the 9 euro they want you to pay to climb up it, umm yah, its like 4 stories high, i could get a better view of paris from any building. But the real attraction is the traffic circle around the arc, yah pretty much madness. We saw SOO many close calls in a few minutes. Apparently the circle isn't covered under some insurance compaines....

Rachael took us out to the Pont Des Arts, a walking bridge that is a big pinic spot for the locals. Its right next to the Louvre and our night consisted of pretty much what you see below.

About half of the pinic crew, as it was still early.

Haha, and here is Chris being awesome in front of Notre Dam, at about 12:30.

I'm going to do a bit of time traveling here, but later in the the week we went to the coast, St. Malo to be specific. It is the town were Jacque Cartier left some 400 years ago to discover Canada and blah blah history.

And here's me hanging off a statue that ISN'T Jacque Cartier, at which Chris asked, "why do you always want to hang on stuff?"

"I could look for stuff on the beach all day!"

The old city of St. Malo is a walled city, with a huge stone wall all the way around it, very cool, I'm told it's one of few. You can walk all around the city on the walls, pretty neat.

More time travel...

We made our way to Mount St. Michele, which I think by itself would be a reason to come to Europe, I have no idea why i didnt know it existed, it's straight out of FF9! You've undoubtebley seen my FB pics, so I'll spare you here. The best and worst part about the town was the narrow streets, the best cause it was awesome, the worst cause about 2000 overweight middle aged people were trying to do the same thing with their tiny dogs and strollers....

Soooo me and chris took a street they couldn't...

Actually, we could barley take it, it started about 3 feet wide and narrowed to the width of our shoulders, way cool! And it lead to a bunch of stairs and a quieter way up to the top where the gothic cathedral dominated the summit.

The cathedral offered great views of the ocean and the cliff's of Normandy, were D-Day happened, which we didn't have to pay for cause Chris is a smooth French talker with all the ladies!

I like to go where I'm not supposed and pose.... there was pigeon shit everywhere!

Later!