Borrowed Angels

Song: Lost in Translation – Julie Atherton
Quote: We saw the tower, check.
Mood: Giddy

The first night in the hostel was okay. I was so tired, after not getting a lot of sleep thanks to some people, I didn’t really care any more that I was sleeping on a board. Quickly got up to take a shower, We discovered the showers couldn’t be turned on at the same time. If you turned them both on, your water supply was weak. And the water went from ice cold to blistering hot. Suddenly the water came out a lot stronger than before, so we guessed that the people upstairs had finished their showers hahaha. And when Ilse turned off her shower, my shower was perfect xD Quictel.kly got dressed and went down for breakfast. Breakfast was even worse in this hostel. It consisted of apple sauce and a bread roll. There was also some coffee or tea.

My dad had advised me to go see the tomb of Napoleon. So that was what we did Took the train to Hotel Des Invalides.  It’s this huge church/temple building that they build in memory of the soldiers. But it took too long to build, so they turned it in to a hospital and church. Napoleon’s grave is there too. The tomb itself is rather boring, but everything around it is so gorgeous. I think we spend hours there taking pictures. People must have thought we were crazy though. At one point, Ilse was sitting on the floor taking pictures, while I was hanging upside down over the balcony to take pictures of the ceiling.  Let me tell ya tho, that is not an easy position to hang in and it hurts like hell when you go back in to a normal position.  I’m glad I’m felxible tho, I didn’t have any problems with my back afterwards xD We had a light snack at the restaurant there, it was rather expensive so we opted to get lunch somewhere else.

After spending a few hours there, we went outside and in to the flower garden they had. But it only took me a minute to realise that they had planted all the flowers in exactly the same order. so if you saw one side, you saw everything. So then we headed over to the Musee Rodin. Which is a museum with a garden full of statues. You could visit the museum and garden together for 7 euro, or just the garden for 1 euro. The garden it is then. Well, that was a really gorgeous place. We first headed towards this statue that looked like the top of some church, but only done in steel wires. It’s an impressive piece of work I tell you. Then we headed over to a statue that looked like 4 munks in agony xD. I saw this gorgeous guy next to it on his phone, tho And when I couldn’t get my camera to operate as I wanted to, I sat down on the bench to take some pictures. That gorgeous guy I just mentioned, came to sit next to me. So I looked at him, and then at Ilse and I whispered to her, moving my head in jerky movements towards the guy xD I think Ilse started drooling right there on the spot, theehee. Well then the guy continued and we followed him towards the next statue.

Have you ever seen that horror movie, Insomnia? With the girl that goes in to the house and spots this door with twisted bodies coming out of it? Well, that’s sorta what this next statue looked like. It was a giant door with bodies inside it, twisting themselves this way and that. It was actually rather awesome. Took a few pictures of that *some of which included the gorgeous guy muhahaha*. And then we went on to every statue we could find, making pictures of them and us with them. We took a little breather on a lounge chair Ate some Madeleine cakes and fed them to pigeons (keeping a bag of Madeleine cakes in your backpack isn’t a good idea, they crumble too easily). Then we went in search of The Thinker, one of those famous statues that everybody knows. It was supposed to be close to the entrance, but we seemed to have missed it completely We did find it tho… it was next to that steel wire statue, ahahaha xD But there were bushes and trees and flowers around the statue, which sorta hid it from plain sight.

Well after we found the Thinker, we had seen everything (didn’t see the gorgeous guy again tho ) so we went to our next stop. The Eiffel Tower **she saw the Tower: check** First made a quick stop at a supermarket for some lunch, which we ate at the park in front of the Tower. It was rather warm that day, so we spend quite some time in the park, eating lunch, making some action shots with our camera (which turned out rather nice too) and getting some rays. I actually cut my finger while doing one of the action shots >_> so then I no longer felt like it. Haven’t the slightest idea what I cut myself on. There was so much junk in the grass :s people are disgusting creatures sometimes. Why do they have to throw their beer bottle caps in the grass? Or their cigarette butts? DISGUSTING!

We then walked underneath the Tower, where we spotted some army guys *cute guy there too with a big gun theehee* And thanks to Ilse, I finally figured out how to change the ISO settings on my camera! Stupid button >_< why did you have to be on the front of the camera *rolls eyes* So took loads of pictures there too. Then we crossed the Seinne and went in search of the metro station. At one point I saw this gorgeous statue and wanted to take a picture…. I couldn’t and for the life of me couldn’t figure out why my camera wasn’t working. Then Ilse asked me “do you have space left on your memory card?” so I checked… “uuh no? My card is full!” and I didn’t bring my other card, so I was stuck. I had to go through all my pictures *that’s 1200 pictures in case you wanted to know* and had to start deleting some of them so I could continue taking pictures.

We found the metro station and took the metro to the Arch The Triomph. We sat there for a while until we were completely rested and then walked back underneath the road towards the metro station. Took the train there to the Obelisk, which is where the Louvre is too ^_^But more importantly… that’s where the Fair was!! I love Fairs *nods* It was quite big too they had lots of food stands and games and rides.. First we sat down for some coffee, where  we saw another cute guy (that’s where the waiter was….)and then we went to the Fair.

The first thing we encountered were sliding machines. Now, if you know me (or if you have read my London blogs) you know that these machines are my favourite things to play! The machines are simple, you add coins in the top, they fall through the machine and the machine slides back and forth and it pushes out coins and points. You collect the points for prices It sort of works like a slot machine, but you get more chances at winning Well, so I changed money for coins and we spent almost an hour and a half there. Every time I told Ilse that I was almost done, I got another bucket load of coins :O It just went on and on.. but I did end up winning a lot of points I had 35000 in total! Which one me a karaoke set! WOOHOO!!

Well after the sliding machines, we went to this fishing game where Ilse had to fish little ducklings out of the water. Well, she got one and the guy told her to keep going o_O so she kept going until her basket was full and overflowing. Don’t know what the point of it was, but she won herself a princess jewellery set hahaha. She put it on immediately too It was those fake tiara, earrings and bracelets that caught a lot of attention, but after a few minutes, we didn’t even notice anymore. We then went on the swingcarrousel, which was really awesome. After that ride, we  went bag fishing, where you have to fish a bag of a plank. I won a dart board and Ilse a LOVE TOU pillow. Then I did this shooting game where I won a bubble blower.

Even though we hadn’t done much at the Fair, we were rather spent, so we sat down at this big fountain that actually had fish in them. You couldn’t see the fish, because the water was all murky, but I saw the tell tale signs of fish the ripples in the water, the little waves. So to prove it to Ilse, I through some crumbs from the Madeleine cakes in the water and immediately the fish attacked it hahaha. Well, since we didn’t have much else to do, and it was getting late, we headed back to the hostel, to see if I could upload my pictures to my web site, but for some reason it wouldn’t allow me to do so. Said the limit had been exceeded. Damn… Well then we just checked Facebook and Twitter and went up to our room (four flights of stairs when you have been walking all day already is not nice). Turned out Kathrym and the other girl had left already and instead there was another girl sleeping in Kathryn’s bed and just like the night before, some girl barged in to the room just as we were about to sleep. Ugh…. French people…

Song: Lost in Translation – Julie Atherton
Quote: We just woke up and fucked off to Paris!
Mood: Happy

Like usual, we woke up at a quarter to eight in the morning. Quickly showered while the other girls in the room were still asleep. Then we packed our bags and went to look for a place on the balcony to eat our breakfast. This was easier said than done. Every time we thought we had found a place, because all the people at the table got up and left, they came back with more food. Uhm, I don’t know… but who gets up from a table, all at the same time, and leaves all their things behind? Not so smart if you ask me. Or maybe I just have a hard time trusting people… yeah, I’m sure that’s it… So when we couldn’t find a place, we went back inside. I took my meds, because I didn’t have anything left to eat with me and just having some juice for breakfast didn’t seem like such a good idea.

When then checked out and walked down the mountain towards the metro station. We tried to use our cards from the previous day, because Lisanne had said they were valid for 24 hours. Yeah, they weren’t… so we had to buy new ones. Which wasn’t so bad.. they were only like 4 euro’s each or something. I can live with that. Took the train towards Lisanne’s place. But when we got there, she wasn’t. So I called her and I got a guy on the phone… o_O wtf? And he spoke French too! So I just asked him in Dutch of Lisanne was there and he was Dutch too xD which I was sorta hoping he was I told him we were at the metro station and he told us not to panic, he would be right there to pick us up. Uhm? Don’t panic? I’m not gonna panic because I don’t know which way to go! I usually get lost a lot (I have no sense of direction, pah!) so we waited and looked at the market in front of us. After a while this guy was walking towards us and I told Ilse “hey… this guy looks Dutch” and it was the guy I had spoken to on the phone xD So yeah, he was Dutch hahaha. Lisanne told us the guy was head of bouscouts, which is why he told us not to panic. pfffhahaha xD

Ah well, we first had to get Lisanne some breakfast (the guy’s idea) and then we walked to her house. Well, I should say her room. Her apartment is about the size of my living room. We sat at her place until about a quarter to one. Just relaxing and listening to Kristin Chenoweth videos on youtube ^_^I showed them My new Philosophy, which neither of them knew O_O that’s like the most important song ever! Coz it’s that role that won her her first Tony!

We then thought it might be a good idea to get our butts going if we still wanted to do something So we took the metro towards a huge shopping centre Which meant we had another long day of going in and out of shops, hahaha. This time I bought some cool flip-flops (I swear if you only look at the shower floors at the hostels, you will contract 25 new diseases), I also bought a panda bear that plays music when you pull its tail We had our lunch at LaFayette. The name of this place made me giddy as it’s also a character in True Blood that I love   Lunch was okay… the burger I had was warm and the fries were cold… I did like the tomatoes and mozzarella tho They tasted good on my sammich! muhahahaha.

I had spotted an excellent toy store that we just HAD to visit it was here that I saw the most amazing thing HAND PUPPETS!! Ah well… err… hand puppet heads really coz it was like cookiemonster heads, but then in black and brown. So I bought a brown one xD I luvs mah Trekkie! (that’s what I named him hehehe) We then went to Saturn, which is like the Media Markt in the Netherlands (big ass electronics store) where I bought a new sun protect thingy for my camera and new earphones in purple ^_^ and Lisanne bought a card reader so we could put my pictures on her computer She also bought red and white earphones xD one is never enough huh? Ilse bought her batterij charger for her camera, as she had forgotten that at home. So then we were all set to go back home really.

We made a quick stop at the Häagen-Dazs stand for some icecream. The girl must have been new, because we each had three scoops and Lisanne and I had toppings, but we had to pay way too little for what we had. Not that we cared really, hahaha. So we took our icecream and left Headed back to Lisanne’s place where we sat and uploaded the pictures to her computer, while checking some things on twitter (you gotta stay in touch on twitter with your friends and idols and fans too if you have them…. these days everything goes on twitter).

But then it was time for us to go So we went to a little supermarket first, where we bought some food and drinks for on the way, and then we walked back to the metro station and took the train to the station where our train to Paris was leaving from. (are you confused yet? xD) But, since the platform wasn’t known yet, we had some coffee at Paul’s (theehee) and ate something small. Then it was time to head up to the platform and wait for the train. We quickly shot some more pictures of each other and then it was time to say goodbye.

And this is where the story ends… wait.. no it doesn’t! You’d think that right? But that’s not it. Because we still had to go to Paris **queue Lost in Translation by Julie Atherton**

We easily found our seats. The only problem was that we couldn’t put our luggage in the racks (do they say racks in English? o.O) ah well, we kept them underneath our seats instead. No problemo. There was a young couple sitting next to us with a baby. And the baby kept looking over at us. Ilse commented on how boring that couple must be, because they couldn’t entertain the baby. But as soon as we looked at the baby, it started laughing. And I’m using ‘it’ lightly, because I had no idea if the kid was a boy or a girl… I think it was a boy, but I can’t be sure. It was just too damn ugly O_O it looked like a freakin baby Conehead! Its head was all pointy looking and the back of the head was just flat as a board. Like they kept it lying on its back the whole damn time. It was really sad, actually… but I laughed so much. I swear the kid was an alien…

At the end of the journey the alien Conehead baby started crying. Well… if you can call it crying. It sounded like a pig being skinned alive *bangs head against wall* I swear to the gods that it sounded so terrified (well, perhaps I would be screaming too had I woken up with my mother’s face hanging above me). It was bad!

Well, we got out as quickly as we could, only to realise we had no idea where we were going We knew how to get from our hostel to the trainstation on the way back, but we didn’t know how to get form this train station to our hostel, hahaha. So we looked up this map of France and it’s metro stations. Found out which way to go and bought the tickets (stupid woman behind the ticket booth refused to speak in English to us. We asked her in French if she spoke English and she just looked at us lazily and was like “non”.. pff…. bitch). Ilse led the way from the train station to our Hostel… only we went in the wrong direction. So I took over the map and led us to the hostel (well, first I was on the wrong side of the street, but that was because we couldn’t find the street numbers. Not my fault!) Quickly checked in and were stuffed in this creepy little elevator that squeaked and moaned the whole way up. We were seriously hoping the thing wouldn’t break and we’d come down crashing the elevator and end up dead. But we did made it save and sound. Our room was at the end of the hall (fourth floor) and we didn’t have a key either, as there was only one key to begin with and someone was already staying in the room. So the door was unlocked as we went in *greeaaaaaat* and it was dark. We tried to be really quiet, but the girl there, Kathryn, woke up anyway. She introduced herself and she was from London *YAAY LONDON!!* talked a little about who we were and what we did in life And we got in to our jammies to go to sleep.

As soon as we got in to our beds, this other girl and her boyfriend marched loudly in to the room too. like… wtf -_- you know there’s other people there, you could at least be a little quiet, right? Then the guy went away and the girl went to take a shower. 10 minutes later the guy just walks in to the room again looking for the girl. Scared the crap out of me too, coz I was almost falling asleep. >_< Then he went away, came back again to apologize, and left again. Don’t know if he apologized for for being loud or just barging in the door without knocking. Both were rude anyways. So then the girl left and I asked her if she was going out and she only spoke French…  -_- but yeah she was going out. So I went to sleep and around 3 or 4 in the morning, the girl came back again. Ugh… woke me up too, coz she wasn’t exactly quiet.