Hello everybody! It has been far too long since I have updated my blog. I am back in France as most you already know and life is crazier than ever. I arrived about a week and a half ago and I flew over with Ben (Obernolte) and Mamie (Vetsch)..my besties, of course! Saying good-bye to everyone at was definitely hard but definitely easier than last time. I guess I know that everything will still be the same when I get back.
So my momma and I flew from Hibbing, MN to Minneapolis, MN to meet up with Ben and Mamie so that we could head out together on our Iceland Air flight to Paris-Charles de Gaulle. I felt like I had packed way too much but there wasn't anything that I wanted to leave behind. We all had packed about the same about of things so I felt a little better about it. We said our good-byes and went through security and my momma stayed with my until the flight left. (Yay for Delta employee!!) The plane ride was split up so it definitely did not seem as long as it should have. We stopped in Reykjavik first and then connected to Paris-CDG. I watched some Glee and Modern Family so that obvi(ously) made it go faster as well. When we arrived in Iceland we walked around the shops for a little bit and then got on our next flight.
This was the big flight, the one I started getting nervous for because after the LOOONG wait.. I was FINALLY going back to FRANCE. But wait.... pause...WHAT?! It seemed like it had been forever since February when Mamie and I had visited Tours during spring break and now all of a sudden we were heading back? What's even more insane is that this time it's not for vacation, which is still trying to process through my brain. OK, PLAY. So we arrived in Paris looking as hot as can be and found our way to the train station. I had planned earlier that week to meet up with my new roommate Ashley at the train station. Since Ashley was nowhere to be found I started getting nervous and freaking out. Mamie and Ben bought their train tickets for Rennes and I finally got news from Ashley (thanks to Romain!). Her train from Germany had gotten mixed up so she wouldn't be able to get into Paris until 9pm at Gare de l'Est (another train station) which is nowhere near the airport. I texted Romain, a friend from when I studied abroad in Tours, and he told me to go into Paris so that we could meet up when he was done with work. He asked me if I wanted to see the Eiffel Tower... I said "it doesn't matter, I've seen it many times". But of course, he sent me to the Eiffel Tower because one cannot visit Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower. :P
After going up and down a thousand steps in the Paris metro I finally made my way to the beautiful tower where the sun was setting. Romain showed up about 20 minutes later and we headed to the train station where Ashley would be arriving.
After meeting up with Ashley we headed to Romain's brother's apartment in Paris so there we went again through the metro with our huge american stereo-typed suitcases. Ashley had bought a new suitcase in Germany the day before but it is bigger than big. Romain and Ashley would take turns carrying it up and down the stairs and hauling it around. Everything started breaking on the suitcase little by little. I was laughing the whole time but Ashley sure wasn't. We were all tired, hungry and frustrated and there were TWO of FOUR handles left on the suitcase. We finally arrived at the apartment and hauled the suitcases up three stories...GREAT JOY. We cleaned the apartment as well as we possibly could and then we ate dinner which consisted of sliced ham and split peas. (It was better than it sounds) We then watched How I Met Your Mother (because we weren't tired enough already) and THEN headed to bed. :P
The next morning Romain headed to work and Ashley and I took a taxi to the train station so that we could head to Romain's house in Monts which is very close to Tours. Romain had very kindly offered to host us for the weekend or longer if we needed. Ashley and I bought our train tickets and had breakfast at a small café at the train station. The train ride was calming as usual and we watched Modern Family on Ashley's iPad. :D loves! We arrived in Tours and had some lunch near the train station to hold us up. We then went back into the train station to buy our train tickets to Monts (a 10 minute train ride). We bought our tickets at a machine and not with a person so then we had to figure out the schedule out on our own. A lady helped me by giving me the schedule... easy enough right? WRONG. I apparently had no recollection of how to read the schedules so we were running around the train station trying to find where the train would leave from. Luckily it's a small train station.
We finally figured everything out, we ran to the train and of course it left right as we were running to it. The next train was in a few minutes so we decided to stay put and take the next one. When the train finally pulled up we got on but another one of the handles on Ashley's suitcase broke. We couldn't help but stand there and laugh as the suitcase was falling out of the train. When we arrived in Monts Benjamin (another friend from when I studied abroad) picked us up and brought us to Romain's. We changed our clothes and tried to relax for a little bit before Romain arrived from Paris. Romain had soccer practice and then a friend's birthday party to go to that night but we were so tired that Ashley and I decided to stay in for the night and go to bed. It was definitely a genius idea because we slept until 1pm the next day..meaning we were flabbergasted!!(flabbergasted=exhausted [inside joke ;)])
I know this is a long post for my first two days in France but that's just how I roll. I hope I didn't bore you too much, or at all but I will update this more frequently. I have just been running around or sleeping so I haven't had time to gather my thoughts and write it all down. Have a great day/night whichever time zone you are in. I love you all and I miss you very much. I will try to update tomorrow about the rest of the week!
you know you love me,
Valé <3
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