baguettes, croissants and crepes OH MY

GOD I absolutely LOVED Paris. I ate a nutella and banana crepe every day mmmm. they sell them on the streets like hot dogs!!

There is sooo much to see and do there. The night I got there I met some other travellers who invited me to see the Eiffel Tower  and Moulin Rouge with them in the moonlight. It was sooo amazing. Moulin Rouge was less exciting than I had expected. I thought it would be much bigger and more lights. I thought that it was a district or town not just a small place like a restaurant with a big windmill in front. I am sure it is quite a show to see inside… but I am too poor for that! The eiffel tower was gorgeous and at exactly 11pm it has a seizure of twinkling lights. It was very  cool! the next day I went to Versailles. The palace was closed but everything else was open. I really just wanted to see the Palace from the outside anyways …and the garden. So on a beautiful parisian day (not sure if that makes a difference…haha) we rented bikes and biked the gardens. They go on forever with with a series of ponds, fountains, and arrangements of flowers and trees. If you go further beyond the main gardens, you move into the french countryside, where there are farms with horses, cows, sheeps adn colourful falling leaves. We even saw these cute little kids playing in the leaves. Once they notice our attention, they slowly made their way towards us and threw leaves at us… man that was cute! The next day (oct 16) I met another girl (our ‘group’ just kept getting bigger and bigger…. and such a fantastic group of people too!)

We went to the Eiffel Tower to see it during the day and walked to the ‘Arc De Triomphe’ . It was the perfect time to go too becauase there was a military marching band and soldiers, people had flowers for some memorial service under the Arch.  It was just about the most perfect thing to see there… considering what is represents. Then we went up the arch FOR FREE!!! apparantly ‘artists’ get up for free…

The next day Katie (my new travel buddy from new york) and I went to the Musee d’orsay where we saw AMAZING artwork. It was sooo crazy to be standing in front of so many masterpieces. To be able to see Monet, Manet, Degas and Van Gogh’s actual brush strokes!!! I cant even describe how I felt. … speaking of which, after the musee d’orsay we went to the Cathedral of Noter Dame… HONESTLY the MOST beautiful cathedral I have seen. I LOVE gothic architecture, adn this place was… breathtaking… As I walked inside, I noticed that there was a mass going on. So to the beautiful tunes of the choir and looking down the candle lit building, I walked down the isles, seeing some of the most beautiful stained glass work I had ever seen… I lost it!! I really think it was the music that did me in… Again, good timing eh? That night we all decided to go out for dinner and some parisian karaoke haha (of course we sang in english) GOD IT WAS A BLAST!!

On my last day in Paris, I spent four hours at the Louvre (again, same responce as the musee d’orsey) and sat on the hill in Montmartre in front of the, yet again, beautiful Sacre Coeur cathedral. Although not gothic, this Palace-looking white cathedral was quite gorgeous. I had a blast just soaking in the parisian culture.
So… I was supposed to stay in Paris for a few more days… and meet Katie in Munich where we will see the Schloss Neuschwanstein castle ( the castle that Walt Disney based all his castles on) but I had seen almost everything in Paris that i wanted to see ( I could spend weeks there and not see everything… really) so I jumped on the train with Katie to Amsterdam.

SSSOOOO here we are, I am in Amsterdam. I got here yesterday and went to a museum called Rijksmuseum. and it has about 200 Northern European pieces which isnot bery much, ,, but it made fro the BEST organized gallery I have ever been to. And every piece has a full description of what it is and includes little factsSO GREAT TO HAVE. I wish every gallery was like that. They also had these gigantic doll houses that look like actual houses..with litle dolls inside. The rooms were incredible inside. … anyways after that i went over to the Hinaken Brewery adn we did the tour and got a bunch of beer for free. GOd that was a blast… and we got to see what a beer bottle sees and the process it goes through as a beer bottle… haha was a virtual fun time. After that we went to a ‘coffee shop’ the same on e that is in ocean’s 11… and there was a cat that lived there that was TOTALLY high… it was pretty funny. And then the RED LIGHT DISTRICT BABY!!! HAHa but yet again, it was not what I expected. I imagined it to be much dirtier and have ugly fat ranchy women down a smokey street…with horney men all around…but it had many curious tourists walking down this beautiful clear street with a canal inbetween the two sides of the street. and the women were very ‘hott’ and made up. Like a playboy mag. Actually…it was kind of like Broadway in New York where you have shows on Broadway which are well funded and produce a lot of money… and the off Broadway shows are less funded and produce less money, they aren’t necessarily worse shows…just not as spectacular looking… haha the ladies on the side streets were fat and ugly…low budget… haha
Anyways…today I am taking a well -diserved restful day and tomorrow I will see the Anne Frank House and Katie and I will be off on an overnight train to Munich. YAYAYAYYA LOOOVEE EEETTT

well I am running out of time and will have to post this tomorrow… sorry for the spelling or typo’s … no time to edit…. baaahh

well I love and miss you all!!!