It's a Crazy Life

Holy Cow!! Pretty much this has been the craziest three days of my life. Right now I'm pouting because I realized that I left my USB cord for my camera at home so now you just have to take my word for it as I describe things until I can actually post the pictures. I had a good flight to Paris overall, I nearly had problems but then my girlfriend at the United Airlines desk hooked me up. My flight had been delayed and that would have caused me to miss my connection, but then she just pushed alot of buttons and all of a sudden I was going Continental and would arrive at about the same time. I should have kissed her, but she was a little old. My flight was beautiful and I didn't sleep a wink, just talked to an American Woman who worked in Indonesia and watched movies (not chick flicks).
When I finally got to the airport I navigated the Charles de Gaulle airport like a genius and made it out on the metro only 3 hours later. I was on my own for the day in Paris and I just walked all over the time through the city, I saw the Louvre (but not inside because the terds close on Tuesdays), the Eiffel Tower, the Musee d'orsay, and some other large buildings that looked really nice and old so I figured they were important. At night I found my shady hostel, which I was kind of nervous about; but it turned out to be decent and my roomate was a normal guy from Baltimore. I tried to sleep but it didn't work so I just layed there until about 7 in the morning and ran back to the airport to pick up my friend Jordan Briggs (for those of you who don't know we served together in St. Petersburg). I got lost in the airport until I heard some French woman paging me over the loud speaker to the information desk - it was pretty cool. Once we met up we just went and reserved train seats and went inside the Louvre. If anyone is considering going to the Louvre, I definitely recommend it, but the Mona Lisa is overrated and not a fraction as cool as all the other things there. We ate some dirty Greek food on the street and headed off to catch our train.

Nice scenery in Paris

That tiny thing back there is the Mona Lisa

The train was quite an experience indeed. The first leg we sat by two kids from Denmark who were awesome. We played hearts and Texas Hold 'em and talked about universal healthcare and education - they love it and I hate it, but it was definitely interesting to get their perspective.

We had a layover in Koln, Germany of about four hours. We got off the train with our new Danish friends and went and got some food and talked some more about Denmark and America. We had no idea that Koln was even cool and then we exited the station and 200 yards to our left was the largest and coolest gothic style cathedral I've ever seen. We had another near-crisis at the train station in Koln when the board kept giving us faulty information and we almost left the station because we thought we had two more hours. Luckily we asked some man and he told us to run back to platform five so we busted a move and sprinted and barely made it in the nick of time. This train was a sleeper and each room has 6 bunks in it, when we opened our door we see that there are 4 teenage American dudes totally wasted and passed out in our beds. We got the train lady and she slapped him and blew whistles in his ear (three woke up easily but the 4th was a challenge) but he didn't wake up until the supervisor started dragging him off of the bed. Needless to say they were morons and were being extremely annoying and we got no sleep until they got off in Berlin - good riddance it was to them. The rest of our ride into Prague was beautiful and I finally got some sleep. The day in Prague has been great so far, we got a way nice hostel and I took a shower (a rare occurence) and we got some good authentic Czech food. We've seen a couple of the sights in Old Town and now it's raining so we are sitting in here using the internet. View of Prague from the church tower

Basically that is the longest blog ever and probably extremely boring but it will be cool once there's pictures on it. Well I hope you all enjoy your vacation, because I am!