Were not in Kansas anymore

We began our trip in the airport, where we happily discovered wireless. This were I got to Skype some friends and chat with them (even though I hadn't even left the city). We boarded our plane an hour and a half after arriving. This flight wasn't a long trip as it was only to Montreal but are next flight was 6 hours to Paris. When we arrived in Montreal it was a stressful run to the gate were we luckily made it in time. We were on a plane with a TV. right in front of the seat and I was able to choose what movie I wanted to watch. I decided to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (even though I've already seen it). To be honest I thought it was hilarious (even the second time). In the middle of the movie I decided to pause it because I was tired. When I woke up it felt like it had only been like 30 minutes, so I finished my movie and heard of the intercom say we will be landing in 20 minutes. It turns out I had slept for like 2 or 3 hours, it felt great.


We rented our car (It's called a Citroen, Berlingo) which to our surprise fit our entire luggage (it's pretty much a van). We got directions to our Disney hotel and were on our way. The man had said it is only 20 minutes away. 3 hours later and 5 stops for directions we arrive at our hotel. The hotel was amazing obviously because it is a Disney Hotel. It has this amazing pool with 3 water slides, 1 of which is huge and super fun(I must have gone close to 65 times so far. It is awesome). It also has a play pirate ship in the pool that has a bunch of water turrets and water spray thingys, it is so cool.


The next day we woke up and bought our tickets to DISNEYLAND!!!!! We took a shuttle over and were walking in and all of a sudden we see these army guys. In Canada this isn't scary at all, but in France they carry HUGE guns. I picked up my speed and got through the gates of Disney as fast as I could. Inside the gates everything was happy-go-lucky. It was pretty much empty and all the signs above the rides only said like 5 or 10 minute waits it was awesome. We only went on 2 rides twice and they were my favorites. The best was"Space Mountain mission 2"the other not as good but still awesome was Indian Jones:and the (Something) of peril. We left at 4:00 pm and thankfully found a Mcdonalds. It was a little different but felt like home. We went back to the hotel and went to bed as we had a big day ahead of us. We were going to downtown Paris to see the Eifel tower and company.


In the morning we bought all day tickets to the Metro (Train) and just hoped on the train to Paris. We got off the metro and went up and the first thing we saw was not the Eifel tower. It was a guy selling Eifel tower souvenirs. That was okay but as soon as we turned the corner to go see the Eifel tower they were .everywhere. Selling the same thing but all of them would come up ask if you wanted to by any and they were very persistent. After getting some close up pictures of the Eifel tower between saying "non, Merci"'s to all the scammers/venders. We then walked up to a further vantage point to get the classic holding up the Eifel tower picture. This is when the funniest thing of the day happened. One of the scammers came up and ask my dad" do you wanna buy any (Eifel tower keychains)?" My dad replies "no, Thank you" in which the scammer says" Nobody wants any" As my dad was laughing He says "I'll give you 3 for 1 euro" then"4 for one euro" then "5 for one euro" To which my dad says while laughing " you don't know how much I don't want any" The vender then says "It feels really nice to give gifts to people". It was so funny.
We continued our walk down Kleber ave. To the Arc de Triomphe were we met some scammers but this time real scammers. A man walks up to us and pretends to find a ring on the ground and asks if it's ours to which we say no, he then tries to give to us. The point of this scam I am not sure but he did it many many times to a lot of different people and not only that, we saw 2 other women doing the same thing. After that we walked down Le Champs d’Elysse looking at stores, taking pictures and being very touristy.


We then hoped on the metro again. When we got off we saw a homeless man asking for money, but he had a dog, and not only that the dog had babies, 5 of them. They were so cute but I felt bad for them because he couldn't feed them. We continued on and came up the stairs to see the Moulin rouge. Which is famous for its “shows” if you catch my drift? We continued down the street to find our first Subway (sandwich shop) in Europe but not only that. It was surrounded by strip clubs and dirty stores and erotic cinemas. It was hilarious.


We got on the metro again and went to the Louvre. Which is situated at the other side of Le champs d’elysse(You can walk from Le Arc de Triomphe to the the Louvre) . This is the famous art theatre with the really Mona Lisa painting inside. We also got to see the really cool glass pyramid outside. We then went back up and continued walking down Le Champs d’Elysse to get to a restaurant to eat. We found a nice Italian restaurant (ironic). The food was good, but by that time we were all pooped.
So we went back to the hotel. Before going to bed my sister and I decided to go for a swim. We had gone down the slide many times obviously breaking all the rules, but then I went down the slide and the kid that had gone before me wasn’t fast enough and I clocked in the head. Don’t worry the kid was fine. It may have been karma because I went back up and the water slides were off. When I came back down the lifeguards were telling everyone to get out of the pool. They said 30 minutes so we stayed to watch and the guy was taking things of the bottom of the pool. I have to say it looked a lot like a big brown stick to me. To back up my theory the Life guards said it was closed for the night.


We went back up to our room and I got on my computer and turned on the Team 1200(Ottawa sports radio station) and listen to the Senators pre-game show and I started writing this. It is at the moment 1:00 am Paris team and I am super tired so I am heading to bed. Good night.