Paris 2

French keyboard will cause poorspelling....
Todqy lots was acomplished. went to Notre Dame for mass, then the pantheon, then the catacombs (scary underground graves, never seen so many bones in my life!!!) then the pompidou centre!!! good day of culture and bizzare. Yesterday was the louvre and the arc de triomphe. the size of the louvre will nefver cease to amaze. Went shopping in montmartre tonight, tomorrow is a full day of shopping huzzah!!!!
pictures soon hopefully !

ahhhh France

So, today we went to Versailles...it was amazing! We are sooo sore from walking the grounds!

So, Kate neglected to mention bits about our driving experience. Lesson learned: Don't drive in France...and especially don't drive stick in France, when you haven't driven stick for two years. We had many interesting detours, but I think Caen takes the cake....I'm almost out of internet time at the cafe...but the basically, Kate nearly ran me over...and the door nearly got taken off of the car...but don't worry, the car and I are fine.


Will post more later,

Rachelle
xoxo

Hoooray!!! First trip post!!!

We are in fact alive! It's been a while since I said we would post, but here we are!
We arrived in London at about 9pm on the 23rd, and tried to get into our hostel as quickly as possible. This resulted in some small getting lost :S
We finally made it about 11:30ish to discover a ground floor room with three sleeping girls, no lights and lots of smoking. Our room was right next to the night entrance (booo) and was apparently connected to the building's mouth as it spit about 3L of water out the side of the building at our room every thirty seconds. Not good for sleeping. We slept about 3 hours before we gave up and took the tube, to the chunnel, to the paris metro, to the paris train line to St. Malo to the standard (oh jeez, I haven't driven one in 2 years and the rules are different and I'm jet lagged...) to Mont. St. Michel.
This amounted to about 10hrs of travelling on the 24th.
Mont St. Michel was amazing. Couldn't have asked for a better trip, very beautiful. We spent the 25th driving to different D-day sites across the north of France, my driving improved, but the weather was rainy. We made it into Caen (the most imposible city to navigate) with about only an hour getting lost. Our hotel was fine. Rachelle got me drunk that night :P
Got up the next day, (26th...) and went to William the Conquorer's castle and then returned the car (with 30min getting lost.....argh) and got on the train to Paris. Spent the afternoon (from 3-10) going to d'Orsay and St. Chapelle = good!!!
As you can imagine, very tired today, Rachelle is going to post more details I think. We'll try to make this more regular. Also, we don't have any pictures downloaded, but as soon as we do you'll see them! Hope all is well with everyone, we're having a grand time!
Love to all!

We spent over 6 hours today booking hostels!
We're really lucky that we got all the amazing deals we did. A lot of the hostels were really booked. So we've booked 41/55 days, we're waiting to sort out Geneva and Italy/Greece as there are some ferry misunderstandings. Hopefully that'll get sorted tomorrow.
It seems that we are averaging $30/person/night for the trip, not tooo bad!
:D
I'm particularly excited about the place in Nice, we're ON the beach. It's hot!

In less then three weeks this will start filling up with stories about R&K's adventures in Europe (this time!) Keep an eye out say.....April 27th~ish for some fun stuff from Paris. But for now just updates on planning perhaps...
Finally got europass and car rental for the first week sorted out. Two hours with a travel agent = lots of work!
Bed time now, need to save strength to book things tomorrow!!!