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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Dear family,
I am so prepared for Thanksgiving... Are you?
Xoxo
Meg
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The last of France
Today is our last day in this beautiful country. Tomorrow we are taking an early train to Germany in effort to book seats on a night train to Prague - our last new adventure!
Paris was amazing, just as everyone told us it would. Unfortunately, the Catacombs were closed while we were there so we were unable to visit and we also skipped out on seeing the real Moulin Rouge. (We will just watch the movie when we get back.) We spent mass amounts of time in the Louvre, visited Notre Dame, the Pantheon (super cool - highly recommend), saw the Eiffel Tower twice - once during the day and once at night - and walked around the Jardins di Luxembourg. It is definitely autumn in France; the leaved were changing and the city was beautiful. We are feeling the weather change and are bundling up more and more each day.
Yesterday we took the train to Reims, France where my sorority sister, Claire, is teaching English to elementary students. Luckily for us, she is on her fall break and is our excellent tour guide for two days! It has been so much fun catching up with her; last night we drank champagne simply because we are currently located in the "champagne region" and gossiped about life in general. It feels so good this late in the trip to spend time with people from home.
And I am spending the last portion of this trip sick with something. Yesterday Claire took me to the pharmacy and introduced me to a French drug similar to Sudafed; I hope it works its magic in the next few days :) Kirst hasn't caught it yet, we'll see how that works out. I will try to not cough on her.
Can't wait for Prague :) it's snowing there and should be gorgeous!
Xo
Meg
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Paris was amazing, just as everyone told us it would. Unfortunately, the Catacombs were closed while we were there so we were unable to visit and we also skipped out on seeing the real Moulin Rouge. (We will just watch the movie when we get back.) We spent mass amounts of time in the Louvre, visited Notre Dame, the Pantheon (super cool - highly recommend), saw the Eiffel Tower twice - once during the day and once at night - and walked around the Jardins di Luxembourg. It is definitely autumn in France; the leaved were changing and the city was beautiful. We are feeling the weather change and are bundling up more and more each day.
Yesterday we took the train to Reims, France where my sorority sister, Claire, is teaching English to elementary students. Luckily for us, she is on her fall break and is our excellent tour guide for two days! It has been so much fun catching up with her; last night we drank champagne simply because we are currently located in the "champagne region" and gossiped about life in general. It feels so good this late in the trip to spend time with people from home.
And I am spending the last portion of this trip sick with something. Yesterday Claire took me to the pharmacy and introduced me to a French drug similar to Sudafed; I hope it works its magic in the next few days :) Kirst hasn't caught it yet, we'll see how that works out. I will try to not cough on her.
Can't wait for Prague :) it's snowing there and should be gorgeous!
Xo
Meg
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Night train to Paris...
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Lugano
Miss and love everyone,
Meg
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Friday, October 23, 2009
My second flood experience
Who knew I would relive the third grade in Venice? Not quite the same, but it was definitely flooding!
When we first exited the train station, we were shocked to not see a busy road in front of us... Instead it was a busy canal! The taxis in Venice are boats; we didn't even see a car when we were walking in the alleys throughout the day. We decided to go straight to Piazzo San Marco and work our way back. We loved all the little canals and walking over tiny bridges into adorable alleyways. Venice is truly a city like no other; I am so glad we decided to visit! It is literally like a fairy tale. A floating city doesn't make any sense but it is enchanting nonetheless. I kept expecting to run into Marky-Mark stealing gold from some wealthy Venetian (from The Italian Job - best movie ever! If you have never seen it, watch it now and you will see where I just was).
Anyway, the closer we got to San Marco, the more water we were seeing and more streets were closed because of flooding. When we were right around the corner from our destination, we had to walk on temporary raised sidewalks since the water on the cobblestone was roughly one feet deep. Then we saw it: Piazzo San Marco. And it was definitely completely under water. Instead of all the pigeons we've heard so much about, there were seagulls floating around. Once I upload my pictures, go straight the Venice and seriously check this out! Despite the excess of water, Venice was still a fun city to get lost in. I definitely have plans to go back when it hasn't been raining so much so I can experience the warm, dry side of Venice :)
We are making our way to Lugano, Switzerland to spend the night with Kathryn Wessinger, another friend from Sauvie Island. We can't wait to take a break before taking the night train to Paris!
Xo
Meg
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When we first exited the train station, we were shocked to not see a busy road in front of us... Instead it was a busy canal! The taxis in Venice are boats; we didn't even see a car when we were walking in the alleys throughout the day. We decided to go straight to Piazzo San Marco and work our way back. We loved all the little canals and walking over tiny bridges into adorable alleyways. Venice is truly a city like no other; I am so glad we decided to visit! It is literally like a fairy tale. A floating city doesn't make any sense but it is enchanting nonetheless. I kept expecting to run into Marky-Mark stealing gold from some wealthy Venetian (from The Italian Job - best movie ever! If you have never seen it, watch it now and you will see where I just was).
Anyway, the closer we got to San Marco, the more water we were seeing and more streets were closed because of flooding. When we were right around the corner from our destination, we had to walk on temporary raised sidewalks since the water on the cobblestone was roughly one feet deep. Then we saw it: Piazzo San Marco. And it was definitely completely under water. Instead of all the pigeons we've heard so much about, there were seagulls floating around. Once I upload my pictures, go straight the Venice and seriously check this out! Despite the excess of water, Venice was still a fun city to get lost in. I definitely have plans to go back when it hasn't been raining so much so I can experience the warm, dry side of Venice :)
We are making our way to Lugano, Switzerland to spend the night with Kathryn Wessinger, another friend from Sauvie Island. We can't wait to take a break before taking the night train to Paris!
Xo
Meg
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