After we got off the train that took us under the British channel, we exchanged our Euros for Pounds, or what my aunt likes to call it Monopoly money. Well its really pretty ;). After we found our way to the Metro, which the Metro in London is cool but more expensive. We had to buy these cards that you would scan when you went through the gate. It was slightly awesome. Plus the trains were freaken nice, so not white trash. Once we got off we had to walk two blocks to our flat. We actually walked passed it because we were too busy looking at all the cool cars and light poles.
Our Land lord was nice but kind of a grumpy butt, because we were "late" shut up dude we are the ones paying to rent your flat! Ha ha. Well let me tell you, our flat was beautiful!!! Not as cool as the one in Rome but still. I called the living room as my room, cuz i wanted to stay up late and watch the people that walk the streets at night in London. ha ha.
Well since it was Sunday, nothing was really open, so we just got food and stayed in and watched TV. (PS. It was nice to be in a place that everyone speaks English). After that we went to bed. Well not me I enjoyed my alone time and probably facebook stalked most of you ;).
The first day we went out to explore London!!! We decided to buy tickets for a tour bus because there was too much to see and not enough time. (Plus the beauty about this tour bus company you can get off and on all day.) And plus the tour guides were freaken hilarious! Our second one was this lady that went to school with Emma Watson, and apparently learned how to ski with her too. LOL whatever.
We got off at the tower of London, words can not describe that place, actually any place I've seen it's hard to explain. It's just so amazing! However, we did not go see the Royal jewels because the line was longer than a Disney Land line. So after seeing a few sights here and there, we had to make a choice to go see The Eye of London, or go eat. We are such suckers for food.
We went to Hard Rock Cafe which was the very first one EVER! Our waitress was new but cool. However, even though everyone speaks English we all have different names for things. We asked for a side order for chips and salsa...Chips are french fries. Ha ha awesome our bad :) I bought 2 shirts cuz I wouldn't decide which one I really wanted. 40 pounds = 80 dollars!!! never in my life have I spent that much on clothes! (Which i'm sure you guys can tell with my lame sense of fashion ha ha)
After we walked home. During our walk home we kept saying "did you know we are in London?" Yeah never in my life did I think I would be walking down the streets of London. Cool!
The next morning I realized I forgot to buy my boss Chocolate, and we were planning on going to the temple. So with the Lord in mind he guided me to this amazing chocolate shop. They treated me like gold. Seriously, a dream come true. They sat me down, served me hot chocolate in a tea cup, let me sample almost every chocolate they had on display. (Because I ordered 120.00 pounds of chocolate so yeah I deserved to be treated like gold.) While enjoying my hot chocolate, I realized the music they were playing was Evanescence, can I say I was in heaven. :) (Yes I enjoy Amy Lee's music thanks.)
After they packed up my chocolate so nicely, I said thanks. Then ran back to our flat to drop our chocolate off and then we rushed to the train station.
Now, first of all the London Temple is not in London, its a 45 minute train ride and a 10 min taxi ride to get there. This was so easier said than done ps.
Our Taxi driver wasn't a member but he loved to draw, he had a framed picture of the London temple in the back of his cab. His name was Kevin he was a sweet heart. Once in the temple we learned that the temple workers were short staffed so my aunt and friend had to take turns going to do endowments, because I wasn't aloud to be alone, cuz I'm not endowed. (This rule was more for the 12 year olds that might wonder off with the opposite sex. In the temple??? wtf is wrong with the world now a days.)
There was this couple who were on their honey moon, and two married women who's husbands that are not active. It was kind of cool being in their company, seeing their faith and attending the temple.
After the temple we were back on the train, the married couple sat next to us, and this random woman. Who funny was from Orem Ut. Her husband was off touring some world war stuff and she decided to go to the temple. She was weird, she liked that I was a film major though. Her two favorite movies are "Sound of Music" and "Pulp Fiction" WTF???
After the temple we changed and found our way to the theater that was showing Lion King. Yeah call me a sissy but I never thought I would cry in Lion King. It was sooooooooooo amazing! Well when they start off at the first song a freaken Elephant walks down the aisle! (No fools not a real one but a costumed one! But it was life sized!) Honestly it was mind blowing!!! I forgot why I love Broadway so much!!! My two favorite scenes: The stampede! amazing! and the part where Simba looks in the sky and see's his father. Why cuz the peeps are like waving these signs around then in a blink of an eye they formed Mufasa face!!! Also I loved the song "He lives in you." Which isn't in the first one but the second one I think....whatever it's call geez.
After the show was over we got bullied into paying 20 pounds to ride in this cart thing home. We were like what the heck its our last night. At the moment I was really sad. I think I cried a few silent tears. Since February I had been stressing about going to Europe and now it was all over.
Once we got home my aunt and friend passed out. Not me, I had to blog. And I had to call a friend because she would be gone for another month, which would make it two months not seeing each other which was really sad. So I sat on the window seat and looked over the town of London and called my friend, (we are going to call her Angelina Jolie for reasons unknown :D). We talked for about an hour, which I knew would be an expensive phone call. Why? cuz its .99 cents a minute. Geez it was worth it. I was just sad to leave, I didn't want to go back to America, I had grown to love these lands. But what made me feel better was knowing I would return someday. Someday soon I hope!! Ha wishful thinking.
In the morning we packed and returned our keys, headed for the train station. I was still really sad but once on the plane I realized how much I missed everyone in America. The flight was slightly more enjoyable than the first time. However, we were delayed so when we landed in Atlanta we had to run to our next plane. However, however, for some reason when my aunt booked our flights I was not scheduled to go on hers. So when we got to the gate we tried to get me on hers but they were full. So she got on and I walked around the airport. Geez I thought JKF was big, um no this was so big they had their own metro to take you to different gates.
I got my first Dr. Pepper! It didn't taste as good as one would hope...oh well. Then I called my parents to tell them I was back in America. Then I called my old roommate Canada and we talked, then I had to walk 30 mins to my gate. I decided to walk cuz I was feeling lousy, I already missed France and all my Cannes friends. :(
Once on the plane, I completely passed out. I woke up for the last 40 mins of the flight, one of the stewardess cracked a joke about how she thought I was dead. (I guess I passed out before the flight took off.) How comforting.
Once I walked out of the SLC airport, I saw snow on the mountains I was not very happy. I wanted my beach in Cannes. :( My car was parked at my aunts house, we had to jump it since it had been sitting there for a month. I drove home (I was slightly worried that I forgot how to drive. ha ha jk.)
Walking into my apt was weird, my room was the way I left it. "In a hurry" I don't know how to explain how I was feeling, I was happy to be home, but I wasn't all there....
The next morning I remembered I had waffle mix so I was so stoked to make waffles!!! I think I scared my roommate because she forgot all about me ;) I made my waffles and we talked about my trip. Jealous? yeah she was.
Later I called the doctor, to make an appointment about the rash on my leg, and the rash on my arm. (We concluded that the rash on my legs was from a dead Jelly fish, that must have touched me when I was in the water one night...it was like 3 in the morning so its not like I could see anything! The rash on my arm was from a slight case of contact dermatitis. We weren't sure on that one, because the rash design followed my vein, which I pointed out, that it showed up the next day after that nurse drew some blood. Damn those doctors. )
Then I started to unpack. Sad day. Then life resumed as it was pre-Cannes.
Now I am back in school! Last year whoot whoot! I just got approved for Graduation!!!
When I feel like blogging again, I'll tell you all about my wonder hospital experience about a month ago. Until then,
Love,
Marcel with Shorts on
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Now where were we???
So one of my friends pointed out that I haven't updated my blog in forever...yeah well lets pick up from where we left off...
So first day in Rome we had scheduled a tour of the Vatican....well we looked at the time wrong so we booked it to the place but they said since we are late we had to reschedule. So we got on a bus and went to see other places that I can't spell. Well since we didn't know how the bus system worked we got on the wrong bus and missed our tour AGAIN!!
Lucky they were nice enough to schedule again. That night we went to get ice cream and find a hard ware store because my aunt had a transformer that needed a fuse. Good think she's a handy women I would have just said "oh no its broken I need a new one" lol. Well since we had some down time we were walking around and saw a thia massage place. We decided to get a massage, well I never had a massage before but my aunt promised me I would be covered and it would be amazing.
Such a lie! Lol Basically this was my experience. This 95 pound thia lady took me back to a room with a mat on the floor, and told me to get down to my spankies. No there was no cover, just me half naked and that lady. The massage it self...let's just say she's been places no man has gone before.
After we went back out to eat and were laughing sharing our stories. A mother and daughter that were next to us, happen to be from America so we talked for a while. The lady worked for the catholic church in some department I think it was called the "anti sexual abuse children." Basically it this was formed to weed out priests or other members who sexually abuse children. It was either that or she worked for the department that protects the pope from being accused for having children, cuz he can't get married and such. Even though when we went to the Vatican we learned all the popes had many children...ill have to ask my aunt what that lady does for the church.
That night we tried to stream Angels and Demons from netflicks did you guys know that netflicks doesn't exist out of the USA? Well it does but it won't let you stream movies cuz the government won't give them permission!! lame sause!!!! So we went to bed instead...the next day we were 45 mins early for our tour. Do you realize the Vatican is its own country? We saw a lot of stuff that day but you can spend 7 years in the Vatican and not see everything. There were moments when you would walk into a room and there was so much stuff your mind would spin! My fav was the sistine chapel it was amazing to see real paintings that you usually only see in books. Breath taking.
After the tour I mailed some post cards and we went back to our flat to clean and finish packing. Ps in Europe they have this washer and dryer all in one....they suck!!! Or we just can't read European lol it took 3 days for my clothes to dry and some were still wet when I packed them.
The guy that own the flat called us a cab and after I stopped drooling we checked out. (My aunt forgot to mention that he was the most beautiful Italian man I will ever see in my life! No joke.)
Once at the train station we tired to exchange money but the western union lady couldn't take cards. We figured if we wanted to buy something on the train we could just use our cards silly us.
Once on the train we saw the signs that said euros only, so we had to scramble for all our change and paid the most expensive meal on our trip. Sleeping was interesting because they had safety belts on the beds so if the train stopped suddenly we wouldnt roll right off. Once we got to Paris I felt like I was home, France is my new home. Don't be jealous America ;)
Finding out flat wasnt too hard since it was behind McDonald's (so glad it wasn't a wendys ;))
In France people don't believe in space and they shop at IKEA, don't get me wrong I love IKEA but when I'm staying at a place that I pay more than rent it should be furnished with other name brands.... any who we decided to go to the wax museum. Quite educational and its creepy how real the peeps look.
I fell in love with Paris not because its Paris, but cuz it really is a city of love. Yes everyone I fell in love! With the metro that is (that would be the underground subway) the metro got us everywhere we needed to be, every 4 mins a train would arrive and it was less than 2 euros. See why I fell in love, the whole city was at my control all I had to do was jump on. Lol
Well since the metro was awesome we went all over Paris!!! We hit up places like notre dame, moulin rouge (I wanted to go inside but my aunt wouldn't let me cuz I had my temple recommend to think about) we went to a French mass at the church that's on a hill that i can't remember what its called, so on and so forth.
Then we went looking for our church, we passed a French library which was awesome, cuz the design was a building full of colorful pipes. Then we walked down the street and noticed a lot of gay places then the church. It's not like the buildings here in Utah, it was connected to other buildings but had its own court yard. So then we went to Hard Rock Cafe and had an amazing meal and our waiters name was homeboy so how could you go wrong with that? Yes I got a t-shirt its blue and awesome. Then we went home and watched some tv and then went to bed. The next day we were slightly lost but the metro saved us and while walking to church another American, funny from provo ut asked to accompany us. I don't remember what his name was but he was going to be working on the new testament movies. That was interesting. At church some sister missionaries greeted us and so did the bishop or something. He actually worked for the American embassy, funny you only see those people in movies, let alone they being LDS lol.
Since in Paris there is only one ward for Sunday school they have many teachers that speak different lanuguages. We went to the English one of course then for sacrament we got to wear the head sets so that the brother missionaries can translate. I witnessed two new members receive the holy ghost, the spirit was so strong and it was amazing for me to witness that. After that the other announcements were there plans to go to the London temple, if you were planning to go you had to set a side 3 days for travel and such. That made me realize being in Utah we are spoiled. We have a temple that is a car ride away, they have to travel to a different country. The talks were interesting as always :)
We couldn't stay long after cuz our train to London would be leaving soon and since we had a habit of getting lost we needed crunch time. So we booked it back and left our keys and booked it to the metro, found the station and went through the lines and security, once we got through we ran to our train.
Since the train ride was only less than 3 hours they were just coach seats. Across from our seats was a British couple, who asked if we were Mormon cuz we prayed over our meal.(BTW which was so much more amazing than our Paris train meal). After talking to this couple we made friends and got some tips of what to do in London.
London part is coming soon...
So first day in Rome we had scheduled a tour of the Vatican....well we looked at the time wrong so we booked it to the place but they said since we are late we had to reschedule. So we got on a bus and went to see other places that I can't spell. Well since we didn't know how the bus system worked we got on the wrong bus and missed our tour AGAIN!!
Lucky they were nice enough to schedule again. That night we went to get ice cream and find a hard ware store because my aunt had a transformer that needed a fuse. Good think she's a handy women I would have just said "oh no its broken I need a new one" lol. Well since we had some down time we were walking around and saw a thia massage place. We decided to get a massage, well I never had a massage before but my aunt promised me I would be covered and it would be amazing.
Such a lie! Lol Basically this was my experience. This 95 pound thia lady took me back to a room with a mat on the floor, and told me to get down to my spankies. No there was no cover, just me half naked and that lady. The massage it self...let's just say she's been places no man has gone before.
After we went back out to eat and were laughing sharing our stories. A mother and daughter that were next to us, happen to be from America so we talked for a while. The lady worked for the catholic church in some department I think it was called the "anti sexual abuse children." Basically it this was formed to weed out priests or other members who sexually abuse children. It was either that or she worked for the department that protects the pope from being accused for having children, cuz he can't get married and such. Even though when we went to the Vatican we learned all the popes had many children...ill have to ask my aunt what that lady does for the church.
That night we tried to stream Angels and Demons from netflicks did you guys know that netflicks doesn't exist out of the USA? Well it does but it won't let you stream movies cuz the government won't give them permission!! lame sause!!!! So we went to bed instead...the next day we were 45 mins early for our tour. Do you realize the Vatican is its own country? We saw a lot of stuff that day but you can spend 7 years in the Vatican and not see everything. There were moments when you would walk into a room and there was so much stuff your mind would spin! My fav was the sistine chapel it was amazing to see real paintings that you usually only see in books. Breath taking.
After the tour I mailed some post cards and we went back to our flat to clean and finish packing. Ps in Europe they have this washer and dryer all in one....they suck!!! Or we just can't read European lol it took 3 days for my clothes to dry and some were still wet when I packed them.
The guy that own the flat called us a cab and after I stopped drooling we checked out. (My aunt forgot to mention that he was the most beautiful Italian man I will ever see in my life! No joke.)
Once at the train station we tired to exchange money but the western union lady couldn't take cards. We figured if we wanted to buy something on the train we could just use our cards silly us.
Once on the train we saw the signs that said euros only, so we had to scramble for all our change and paid the most expensive meal on our trip. Sleeping was interesting because they had safety belts on the beds so if the train stopped suddenly we wouldnt roll right off. Once we got to Paris I felt like I was home, France is my new home. Don't be jealous America ;)
Finding out flat wasnt too hard since it was behind McDonald's (so glad it wasn't a wendys ;))
In France people don't believe in space and they shop at IKEA, don't get me wrong I love IKEA but when I'm staying at a place that I pay more than rent it should be furnished with other name brands.... any who we decided to go to the wax museum. Quite educational and its creepy how real the peeps look.
I fell in love with Paris not because its Paris, but cuz it really is a city of love. Yes everyone I fell in love! With the metro that is (that would be the underground subway) the metro got us everywhere we needed to be, every 4 mins a train would arrive and it was less than 2 euros. See why I fell in love, the whole city was at my control all I had to do was jump on. Lol
Well since the metro was awesome we went all over Paris!!! We hit up places like notre dame, moulin rouge (I wanted to go inside but my aunt wouldn't let me cuz I had my temple recommend to think about) we went to a French mass at the church that's on a hill that i can't remember what its called, so on and so forth.
Then we went looking for our church, we passed a French library which was awesome, cuz the design was a building full of colorful pipes. Then we walked down the street and noticed a lot of gay places then the church. It's not like the buildings here in Utah, it was connected to other buildings but had its own court yard. So then we went to Hard Rock Cafe and had an amazing meal and our waiters name was homeboy so how could you go wrong with that? Yes I got a t-shirt its blue and awesome. Then we went home and watched some tv and then went to bed. The next day we were slightly lost but the metro saved us and while walking to church another American, funny from provo ut asked to accompany us. I don't remember what his name was but he was going to be working on the new testament movies. That was interesting. At church some sister missionaries greeted us and so did the bishop or something. He actually worked for the American embassy, funny you only see those people in movies, let alone they being LDS lol.
Since in Paris there is only one ward for Sunday school they have many teachers that speak different lanuguages. We went to the English one of course then for sacrament we got to wear the head sets so that the brother missionaries can translate. I witnessed two new members receive the holy ghost, the spirit was so strong and it was amazing for me to witness that. After that the other announcements were there plans to go to the London temple, if you were planning to go you had to set a side 3 days for travel and such. That made me realize being in Utah we are spoiled. We have a temple that is a car ride away, they have to travel to a different country. The talks were interesting as always :)
We couldn't stay long after cuz our train to London would be leaving soon and since we had a habit of getting lost we needed crunch time. So we booked it back and left our keys and booked it to the metro, found the station and went through the lines and security, once we got through we ran to our train.
Since the train ride was only less than 3 hours they were just coach seats. Across from our seats was a British couple, who asked if we were Mormon cuz we prayed over our meal.(BTW which was so much more amazing than our Paris train meal). After talking to this couple we made friends and got some tips of what to do in London.
London part is coming soon...
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