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Today is the big day!!!! Off on our 21 day adventure around Europe!!!!!
We started off the day by cleaning Tallie's apt since she's moving out today. And we got all packed up for our trips (you'd be impressed, we're really only bringing one backpack each!) One of her roomies was sweet enough to take our other bags and keep them in Spain for us till our return home. We headed out and had some espresso to wake us up a little bit (we may have partied just a little too hard last night haha). Then, we said goodbye and left at 2 to catch our flight. On our way we stopped at Corte Ingles to try and buy a camera which I was then planning on returning when I got back, but they only had a 15 day return policy, so that didn't work as planned. But then we hopped our train to Valencia, metro to the airport, and a plane to FRANCE!!!!! Flying here is really cheap (our tickets to Paris were only 15 dollars!!!), but we paid in other ways. The airline is called Ryan Air, and it is....very cheap. But always an interesting experience lol! We sat by this funny french guy named Baptiste, and we had a really funny conversation about what he thought America was like (the girls in particular) and we had to correct some of his assumptions. But it was cool to make a new friend!!
When we got to Paris, we somehow managed to figure out the metro system on our first try! We hopped on, crossed lines, and then followed the directions that Natalie's friend gave us to his apartment that he's letting us stay at! The directions were simple, get out of the metro, go to Rue de Charonne, apt 156. He said it was very close! So we get out and see some Charonne street, and a big 156 on an apt building, and proceed to ring the doorbell for like 20 minutes. Natalie calls him and he doesn't answer. We kinda freaked out cause it was pretty late and we were thinking we were stranded on the streets of Paris. Finally we got ahold of him, and apparently there was a Blvd de Charonne and a Rue de Charonne, and we had picked the wrong one. CONFUSING!!! Nonetheless, we made it to his apartment and got set up on his couch that he's letting us use. Should be a fun few days.
Off to bed for now cause we're EXHAUSTED from our day of traveling, and we have like a million things to see in PARIS tomorrow!!!!
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