3 days late...but here!!

(We tried to upload this yesterday, but it wouldn’t let us…sorry for the delay)

I know you all have been checking over and over again for the next blog post…well here it is! This will actually cover the past 2 days. Crazy how time flies.

THURSDAY

- In the morning we went to a little coffee shop and got breakfast and sat and read for about an hour. Solid way to start the day.

- We then started walking to the tube when Lo realized that she couldn’t find a 20 pound bill that she had before. We went back to the coffee shop and it was nowhere to be found. We’re thinking that it just fell out of her pocket when she took out something else. Big bummer.

- I think we have the tube down now. We feel like pros!

- Got to Hyde Park, found a luscious grassy area and parked our rears down and did absolutely nothing. Haha. It was GREAT! There was a precious family by us that had 2 little towheaded boys named George and Arthur and every time I heard the mom say their names I giggled inside. Hehe

- There was this great little restaurant on the water at Hyde park, so we decided to walk over there and have a splendid lunch while people watching…which is when we saw the buff black man in a speedo. He was just crusin along like it was no big deal. I guess if I was ripped like he was though, I would walk around in a speedo too. Haha. Bad visual…sorry.

- After lunch we met up with my cousin Katy and her friend Ginny and we sat out on the grass, listened to music, read magazines, and just enjoyed the rays of sunshine beating down on us. We ended up staying there until about 5pm. It was beautiful.

- Lo and I hopped back on the tube, showered and changed at our hostel, and took the tube over to the London Eye again where we sat and ate dinner along the boardwalk and drank wine. Oh, we also got crepes with nutella and strawberries and the heavens parted. I would encourage each of you to make one. The crepe maker (haha, that sounds funny) has hit on Lo twice now. He asked if he could date her the day before and this time he was calling her a princess. So watch out Olson’s! Lo is gonna bring home a crepe maker with dredlocks!

- Katy and Ginny met up with us again and we sat on the grass, drank wine, and played cards. Then this creepy homeless man came over and asked us for money in a very affectionate way and he just decided to sit down with us. Katy gave him some crackers and cheese, but he still wouldn’t go and then he decided to tell me that I was beautiful and he stroked my leg and Katy told him off and he finally went. Seriously, the leg stroking was not okay. Creepy.

- The four of us then went to a pub and hung out and went to one other bar and the rest is history my friends. J

FRIDAY

- Struggling to get out of bed, we got up, packed up, and checked out of good ol’ Piccadilly Hostel. I’d like to tell you that I’m gonna miss it, but I won’t. haha. I’ve looked at the painted rat on our wall long enough.

- We grabbed breakfast at the same coffee shop again and then head to the tube so we could get to the train station where we had to catch our train to Paris.

- Kings Cross/St. Pancras station was incredibly nice. They had everything in there! The two of us just sat and waited for our train and yet again, people watched. I personally like to form stories about the people I see. Quite entertaining.

- Boarded our train and we slept…the entire time.

- Arrived in Paris and realized that I don’t know French. Crap. But after walking in circles, standing at two different lines we didn’t need to be in, asking multiple people for help, and a phone call…we figured it out and got on another Metro that took us close to our hostel. Lo and I got off the Metro and yet again realized that we don’t speak French. Dang it again. Haha. So, we asked one other information desk guy to guide us in the correct direction and we made it about 10 minutes later!

- The hotel is actually really nice! We have our own room and own bathroom, which is amazing. We also have a little TV, so we are currently watching the World Cup. The hostel is great and the guy at the front desk is hilarious.

- I think the struggle since being here is the language barrier and for whatever reason we both want to keep trying to speak Spanish to people. News flash, Spanish doesn’t work in France either. Haha.

- We went to dinner next door to our hostel and both ate delicious salads. Our waiter spoke almost every language so he helped us with some of our French pronunciation and we still felt like idiots. Oh well. Hopefully we’ll get the hang of it.

- And here it is…the big news….WE ATE REAL FRENCH FRIES!!! Real fries, in France. It was the most exciting moment ever.

And that’s that about that! It’s 10pm and still light outside, which I still cannot comprehend how that happens. Tomorrow we are taking a walking tour around Paris and seeing whatever else comes our way! I will try to update this on time tomorrow…I know you will all be waiting eagerly. Haha.

Oui Oui from Paris!