After dishes duty etc, we headed on a 30min bus ride to the Versaillies palace. The lines were sooo massive and we didnt have a whole lot of time there so we didnt go in. we did take photos of the golden gates outside though which were really cool. Afetr walking around the streets and market we meet back at the bus and headed back to Paris. We got off at the eiffle tower. The line wasnt as bad as we thought it would be, we only had to wait about an hour or so to get up to the 2nd floor. To go to the top we had to buy tickets on the 2nd floor. When we got there the ticket place was closed so we thought we must have to wait in the other line and buy them at the elivators. After waiting in this line for about 30min we were then told we had to wait for the ticket thing to open which could be another 2 hours., but luckly it opened in about 20mins and we got to the top real fast. After all that waiting we only spent about 10mins up there taking photos before climpbing back to the bottom. We got french fries for lunch at the bottom.
After finiding some french shoes for Kayla we met the bus bacj at the Louve and got changed on the bus into our nice outfits (when we were all sweaty and disgusting) and went to a french restarant for dinner and the to the cabereigh.
We got free champagine at the cabereigh and on the bus home everyone was really loud, it was pretty funny.
Friday, August 28, 2009
CONTIKI day 1
Today we left for Paris!
We took the ferry from the white cliffs of dover over to France. Then we drove for 5hours, maybe, to Paris. Then we set up camp, V, one of the contiki reps at the campsight had snails for us to try... they wernt too bad... grace wouldnt try it though! After this we went on bus tour though Paris, where Stu, our tour manager, pointed out the main sights for us to visit. During the tour we stopped at the Eiffel tour and drank champagne beneath it.
Then we went back to camp sight.
Our tour crew is
Stu, our tour Manager.... he is super cool.
Cam, our mobile cook... hes super good at christoph's accent!
Christoph, our driver...hes polish
They are all pritty cool!
our tour buiddies consist of
14 Kiwi
18 Aussies
2 USA
1 Mexico
1 Japan
or somthing like that!
they are all really nice.
and its unusual to have soo many kiwis which is cool.
We took the ferry from the white cliffs of dover over to France. Then we drove for 5hours, maybe, to Paris. Then we set up camp, V, one of the contiki reps at the campsight had snails for us to try... they wernt too bad... grace wouldnt try it though! After this we went on bus tour though Paris, where Stu, our tour manager, pointed out the main sights for us to visit. During the tour we stopped at the Eiffel tour and drank champagne beneath it.
Then we went back to camp sight.
Our tour crew is
Stu, our tour Manager.... he is super cool.
Cam, our mobile cook... hes super good at christoph's accent!
Christoph, our driver...hes polish
They are all pritty cool!
our tour buiddies consist of
14 Kiwi
18 Aussies
2 USA
1 Mexico
1 Japan
or somthing like that!
they are all really nice.
and its unusual to have soo many kiwis which is cool.
Day 5
Today we didn't get up to too much. we went to the laundry mat and did some washing. After this we went off to find the contiki meeting point. There was a sign that said
"take the elevators only use stairs in emergency"
so grace decided we would take the stairs.... 175sairs later steep as hell. we got to the top.... grace is never making decisions like that again
then we just relaxed for the rest of the afternoon before we had our second pub food and went to the contiki meeting.
"take the elevators only use stairs in emergency"
so grace decided we would take the stairs.... 175sairs later steep as hell. we got to the top.... grace is never making decisions like that again
then we just relaxed for the rest of the afternoon before we had our second pub food and went to the contiki meeting.
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