Tuesday, February 17, 2009

French Soil left a Bad Taste in my Mouth...

Well I am home now.... it kind of amazing i didn't miss the flight.... I enjoyed my trip all the way up till the time i was coming home..... here it starts.... we are in the airport in Munich and i am going to check my baggage... my aunt and i spent a few hours packing doing the best we could to make our suitcases only weigh 23kg approx 45lbs we were fighting and struggling balancing and replacing and leaving things behind. When we checked our luggage they told us we both had to pay 50 euros more because one of both our bags were over by 2kg.... we were a bit upset because many people are let though with that amount as ok... but the french lady behind the counter saw that we were American.... as my aunt walked away to go pay for her luggage the lady turned to here friend and told her "those stupid American's" in German....haha little did she know i could understand her for i understand German. So she checked my bags and I wanted to say something to her in German to show here I understood what she had said but I wanted my luggage to make it home so decided better of that idea. Went to pay for my stuff and continued on to security....Went through security with 1 hand luggage the exact size of hand luggage ur supposed to be allowed, a backpack as my purse, and a small bag of one very breakable thing. Got on the plane and on my way i went......

Made it safely to Paris, France.... got of the plane and proceeded to go meet my friend Tyler at the trainstation in the airport. Got there no sign of him... I walked all around up and down and then decided to go back to look through the terminal to double check he wasn't waiting there for me... nope no Tyler..... walked all the way back to the trainstation went back to my aunt and said i hope he shows up soon or that i find him within 20 min or we are going to have to try to see what little we can of Paris... (17hours all we had) Just then i turned around and lone behold just about 20o feet away TYLER!!!!! yay I told my aunt there he is i run i jump and hahah walla we have found eachothere... turns out later he told me he did the same things i did walked around looked in the terminal... we must have crossed paths and didn't even know it....

Well it was the day after Valentine's Day and he had a rose which he handed to me... then turned to my Aunt and said to her oh too bad I didn't know u were coming i would have gotten you one as well.... oh but wait what is this he pulls another rose hidden from inside his jacket.... it was very sweet.... We then proceeded to purchase 2day metro slash train passes to get to see some of Paris... Got on the train and went to his hostle. Dropped some of our load off and took one backpack with some valuable things in it and continued on to see PARIS.... First stop was to go to the Hard Rock Cafe before it closed!!!!!!! haha made it but the Kitchen was closed... :( no food there. Got our lovely turisty things and left... went next store proceeded to eat nachos haha in France very good i might add and drank a balinie martini i know i spelled that wrong... Left there and off we went to the Louve!!!! That was a beautiful site even though it was well not lit up.... and as we looked off to the South East i believe no lit up Eifel tower either :( But it was still beatiful to see... Then we proceeded on to see the Arch (haha of what i can't remember) that famous one haha. After that we proceeded to walk to Notre Dame because of course the Metro shuts down a little after Midnight hahah so we walked there.... but stopped once again to see a little light in the middle of the city another late night cafe to stop in... tired, wet, cold, and just worn out we sat down to a cafe o'le, cafe latte, and an 11euro haha coke.... well none the less the place was dry, warm, and friendly. Stayed there till they kicked us out... haha went on to Notre Dame it was gorgeous to see at night that was the one place that was lit up at night and wow was it beautiful to see. haha and met a few nice drunk French young men in the park area haha that was funny... Took many pictures there and continued on to the metro which was now open early moring haha RUSH of people on their way to work... wow that was insane pushing, shoving and many other abnoxious things haha... Got to the Eiffel Tower wow that was amazing to see... took lots of pictures... Then we looked around to see if we could find a near by cafe that was open that we could sort of see the eiffel tower from... haha none to see so i saw some French military people and decided i would ask them if any of them spoke english and if they could recomend some place.... they were niceish and told me down the street to the right found a two to choose from ducked into one and we proceeded to try to order some things.... first two hot chocolates (tyler and my aunt ordered) as they orded those Tyler was still looking at the menu which the girl ripped out of his hands and threw on another table with a rude, discusted look on her face... haha wow our first rude person... We left there as soon as we could and headed back off to the Hostel to get a loaf of bread and some crissonts and get on our way to the airport.... Got on the trains which were now packed and more pushing and shoving and got on the train to the airport and were traveling quickly through to there... Said our good byes because Tyler had to get off a stop earlier than us and my Aunt and I continued on to the stop we needed....

Got inside and proceeded to the board to tells us where we needed to go to get to our plane.... our's wasn't listed yet... sat and waited finally it was on the board proceeded to go to our security area to go through because we already had our boarding passes... haha showed our passports and walla again the lovely rude people of France took over.... No u have too many carry on's.... huh.... we got through in Munich where it was a smaller plane no issues there haha no no no u need to go check one them in.... huh??? We said ok went to go ask about this at the counter were told no u don't have to much here are some tags and continue over there... go back to security still rude lady no no no u can't come through tooo much stuff. I told her we were told it was ok... she said bring someone back to say that to me... fine walk back over told the same person who told us it was ok he showed us to a supervisor who told us well i guess we'll have to check two of ur bags.... now we showed her we already were paying for exess baggage from the other airport haha that wasn't enough she said 300 euros were needed to check both our little carry on's GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i was about to lose it at this point.... I told her can u please do something for us we are tired, want to go home, have spent enough money and need ur help.... She said ok.... 150 one bag free fine.... ok we'll take it.... did the paperwork sent them on their way praying nothing would break..... (all our breakables in these carry on's and my aunt's coach purse) went to the wrong place to pay our 150 euros but a nice guy behind the counter asked if we had frequent flier miles with them... we said yes he said we can pay this with those.. we wer 2000 short but he said ok we will put i through and the next time u fly with us it will deduct hahah it was freee!!!!!! off we went to security with security stamps on our passports stating we could go through w/o more hassels....

At this point i turn to my Aunt and told her FORGET FRANCE I am never coming back... RUDE and mean people... YUKE!!!!!! Got our little trinkets and got on the plane and flew home... Landed safely and were getting yelled at by the Security girl in the plane no phones while we taxi ok... fine... comes back again right before we docked ahah no phones again.... she was RUDE too haha..... got off plane got through customs and got outside i KISSED AMERICAN SOIL and said i am PROUD TO BE AMERICAN... I missed home.....

Got home nothing of my things were broken miraculously... but my Aunt's bag suffered a little damage.... one stine had a broken handle and one little breakable bunny figurine had a broken ear... but overall we got home safe.... barley but safe.... it was an experience i don't want to experience again....

But seeing Paris at night was fun and quiet without Rude people....haha... Many thanks to my friend Tyler for helping us get through our time there and see all that we did see.... It was a good time then... but yes i must say French people do hate us... Oh well.... Farewell for now..... Pictures will follow on here sometime this week...

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