Venice Day 1

I am in Venice! We arrived at our hotel at about noon. It took us a while to get there. We got off the train and the Holiday Inn was right there! It only took us 5 minutes or less to get there. We were all so excited to be so close to the train stop. So we walked in and stood in the lobby, then they told us that we were staying in the Holiday Inn Express, which was just around the corner. Well, “around the corner” wasn’t so close. With all our luggage, it took us a half hour to get to the other hotel. It was a little disappointing, but it was fine. Our hotel was really great. It was a step up from our Paris hotel. It was a little bigger and I thought the bed was more comfortable. The walk to the train station wasn’t that bad either. It took us about 12 minutes to walk there. The breakfast was pretty good too. Overall, today was great. After we settled into our hotel we walked through the streets of Venice. It was so beautiful. The buildings were picture perfect, I loved the town in was so cute and exactly what you would picture a Venetian town to be. We ate dinner at a Pizzeria where you just grab the pizza and go. It was huge! Seriously the biggest piece of pizza I have ever eaten. It was thick, much thicker than in the US, which is weird because usually the pizza over here is really thin.

Overnight Train

Today we got on a 13 hour, overnight train ride to Italy. It was probably the coolest experience of my life. It reminded me of the train on Anastasia. I got to sleep on the top bunk and it had straps to keep you from falling off the bed. It was sweet. I usually let my feet hang off the edge of the bed, but here they hung out the window. That was kind of crazy, but it was cool though. I really liked the experience. I was super excited the whole time. It’s not every day that you get to sleep on a train

Eiffle Tower

Moulin Rouge

Fountainbleau and Louve

Paris Day 1

Friday was a really long, and really short day at the same time. We took a really fast train to Paris. It only took three hours. We got to go under the English Channel! I was really disapponted because I didn't get to see the water before, after, or during the English Channel part. But I was very glad that it was a short ride. We got to Paris at 2:30 and there was supposed to be a bus waiting for us, but it was late. We waited around until 5:30, then determined it wasn't coming and decided to take taxis. We ended up waiting outside the train station for 4 hours. It was kind of fun to see all of the people walking by and stuff. I was just glad that we were standing under a roof because it rained a few times. We had a great bonding experience, though. I had a good time.

This is the view out our window...a little ways out our window.
I was so happy when we got to the hotel and it was like an American hotel. I am sharing a room with Kaari and Cassie. So far we've had fun. I like it, I'm very pleased.
We had a sweet bus pick us up today. It was a Mercades Benz!

Eating ice cream at Fountainbleau.

Last Day in London

It has been a great two weeks here in West Kensington. I have enjoyed my stay here. I have seen the coolest buildings and learned so much history here. England has so much and it's crazy to see how old everything is. In America our vision of old is definatly not old. Their trees are even cooler because they are old. I was just so amazed at how big everything is. It feels like home to me, so I feel like going to Paris is going to be kind of like when I left home to come to London.

Today was way chill. We went to lunch at Nando's. That was my best food experience in England. I loved it. It was a Portugese chicken grill-type thing. I had a chicken pita with their special sauce on it. Holy crap, it was amazing. I'm so sad we didn't find it sooner. I also ate a nut mix that was seasoned with their spicy sauce. It was so good. I wanted to figure out a way to bring some back home with me, but that didn't really work out. At dinner time, we went to Wagamama, but Cassie, Lindsey, and I weren't very hungry, so we just had desert. This is a picture of our chocolate fudge cake. It was amazing. Today was over all a good food day.