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...