Swimming With The Fishes

Yesterday we wanted to do something different and make use of the Paris Museum Pass that we had so we decided to go to the Aquarium and see the fishes... so here you go..

We checked out the Modern Art Museum and it was pretty cool  but a little out of our understanding. there were some Picasso's so that was cool but a lot of the "art" was a little drab and maybe made sense to someone on mushrooms all like "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!?" but other then that it was just alright.

Jasmine and I's reaction to a lot of the exhibits at the Modern Art Museum.. :P

Famous Coffee and Melting Clocks

On Thursday we went to the cafe where Amelie was shot. It was pretty cool the area is REALLY pretty and full of cool shops and little streets.

We had some coffee and I had a Hamburger and Fries because my body was craving protein like you wouldn't believe. After the Cafe we headed to the Salvador Dali Museum

After the museum we decided to go for a little walk around the neighnourhood and see what the area had to offer. I took a few pictures and stuff of the area and it was a really nice day.

After the little bit of exploring we decided to go home and make some dinner. Here is a cool video of the Metro going from station to station...

Priceless Art, Famous Coffee, and Melting Clocks

Another day came into light as we woke up on Wednesday and decided that it was definitely time to do some laundry. (I had NO clean clothes left) after laundry we started walking to the Louvre. After a wrong turn and a little turning around we started walking down the street toward the Museum. The google maps said that it was only supposed to take about 40 mins however we were walking for well over an hour.





We went inside where it was VERY busy and HUGE. walking through the different exhibits and looking at all the AMAZING paintings. as per usual you are not supposed to take pictures inside the museum with a flash and with the subdued lighting its pretty pointless to try so there is very little documentation of our time INSIDE the museum but there are a couple of videos.









All together it is a really amazing place. It would be physically impossible to see the whole thing in one day we saw about as much as we were interested in so that was cool. after the museum we went to the Great Canadian Pub and had a couple of beverages and then went shopping a little bit once we were ready to go home we hopped on the metro and decided it would be cool to go to a restaurant. We went to a little Italian place in the neighborhood and it was really tasty. the service was less then great but the food was really good.

here are a few pictures from that day...

Paris and Madness

We started off our beginning of the Paris part of our trip with a LOAD of confusion. We arrived in the train station surrounded by people and I somehow got tricked into pulling some guys luggage into the station. The first thing on out list was to call the woman (Maria) so that she could meet us and let us into the apartment. All I can say is never try and use a pay phone in Paris unless you have a special card. we could not find a phone that would accept coins for the longest time and then when we did it ate the money (4 euros) so we went to the information desk and bought a long distance phone card. We went back to the phone and inserted the card to find out that it was not a readable card. you had to dial a long involved number and a secret password to make it work. we tried twice to call the lady and she hung up on us twice. I called the guy who was actually renting us the apartment and he told us to take a cab to the location and she would be there... GREAT.

We made our way out of the station and saw a long line of cabs in front. going to the nearest one was not good enough. he pointed to the guy behind him who pointed to the guy behind him who pointed to the guy behind him after about 6 cabs we were beginning to loose our patients. FINALLY we got into a cab and made it to the apartment.

 The lady "Maria" was there (phew) however she was talking to the president of the united states or the pope or some such shit because it was clearly WAY more important then helping us into the apartment. she walked us up to the place and let us in pointing vaguely to the kitchen and bathroom dropping the keys and only getting off the phone long enough to ask for the rest of the payment that we owed. AKA Superbitch

That night was spent just calming down and relaxing so that we both didn't have a nervous break down.

Day two was MUCH better :D

We woke up a little late and showered to get ready for our day which consisted of the hop on hop off tour bus that would take us around the city.












We made our way to the Eiffel tower on the bus and saw lots of the beautiful city that is Paris. through high quality (insert sarcasm here) headphones we learned a little about the history and interesting facts about the different areas and land marks. definitely a good way to get your bearings on the city and learn a little while you are doing it.



We bought our tickets and began the big accent up the staircase that leads up to the top of the tower. You have the option of taking an elevator which has a 3 hour line up and costs 30 euros or you can pay 4.50 euros and walk it right away. we made it up the first floor in 5 minutes.



we made it up the second set of stairs in about the same time...



Once we caught our breath we went for the third and final set of stairs but.... THEY DON'T LET YOU! you have to take the elevator from there something to do with "safety" what a pile of crap. anyway we payed the 10 euros and headed for a lineup... more lineups.







After the beautiful view and some cool pictures and stuff we made our way down to the ground and went to get a snack and some water at the base of the tower. we were greeted by about 30 Somalians selling knock off Eiffel tower souvenirs and roses. Jasmine was handed a rose by some guy and he immediately asked me for 4 euros. I guess he didn't realize who he was dealing with because I gave him the rose and basically told him where to stick it. I was instantly reminded of what Niveen and Mark told us about the guys at the pyramids.

Here are some picture from throughout the day....

Yes that is the "Great Canadian Pub" we went to it. and they actually have Canadian beer too... well Moosehead and Canadian. complete with Habs and Sens Gear and Tim Horton's Coffee...Empty Cans.

Around the top floor of the Eiffel tower is flags from around the world to remind you EXACTLY how far away from home you are. (Ottawa 5682 km)

The day turned out to be wonderful and although our first impression of France was a little dim it has brightened up ten fold and we are having a great time. The weather could not be more amazing 20 degrees and sunny every day with a little breeze to keep it cool. Sorry Ontario. he he



On a side note I apologize for the lack of blog posts the past couple of days. We've been having long and busy days and by the time we get home and eat all I wanna do is sleep. I mean common if i wanted to spend all my time on the Internet I could have stayed in Ottawa where we have decent bandwidth on the wifi connection. I'm going to catch up tomorrow so you can see what we did the past two days :)

hope all is well

One Last Day In London

We woke up yesterday and decided to make a nice relaxed trip to the exchange place and get the rest of our GBP travelers cheques cashed. The first one that we went to was run by a guy who I'm pretty sure was either high or retarded. I wanted to cash my cheques and he didn't seem to want my business so he suggested that we go to the place at the next tube station and when I asked him the exact address and name of said place he literally stared off in the distance like he was lost or something. That lasted almost 3 minutes until i got frustrated and said. "hello?"

After the banking fiasco we decided to go on a photo walk and check out the science museum.









After the science museum we continued on our photo walk and took lots of pictures. all or most of the photos were taken on film so you will have to wait to see most of those however I will post some from the digital here after the videos :)

After our photo walk we decided to head home and have a little dinner and get some sleep. We took a train to Paris this morning and tomorrow we will be going on the hop-on hop-off tour. until then keep it unreal

 :D

Stonehenge and the Castle

Sorry about the late update everyone.

We woke up early the other day and headed straight for the marriot hotel to meet our tour bus. It was a lot easier this time because we knew where we were going. with a little time on our hands Jasmine was able to get a coffee :D



After a little confusion with WHO exactly our tour guide was we made our way on the bus toward Windsor Castle. The Queens ACTUAL house (Buckingham Palace is just her office apparently)






The castle is HUGE and there is only about 2 hours to look around so the whole thing seemed a little rushed. we saw the queens doll house and the artifacts and some suits of armour and the meeting rooms of the king and what not. unfortunately we were not allowed to take any pictures in the castle so it was kind of a bust in that sense.





having no cameras allowed kind of makes it hard to show everyone how cool everything was but you'll just have to take our word for it :P

After grabbing a bag full of pastries and a bottle of diet coke and a water it was back on the bus to head to the city of Bath which I thought was the most beautiful city I've ever seen, it was all old timey and stuff. There we saw the roman baths which was interesting enough but it was not the highlight of the tour.





the whole bath is fed by a hot spring which according to legend cured a kings leprosy. he was the one who turned it into an actual bath.



we left the bath a little early and I was feeling hungry so I grabbed a pizza. I thought it was going to be a small pizza but it was quite large. I still managed to eat it in just under 10 mins. I really was that hungry.

we saw these people doing a statue street performance. be ready to tilt your head to the left





very cool city and very dependent on the local tourism, I think it would be a nice place to live if you were on the edge of town or up the hill a little bit.

After Bath we got back on the bus again and drove for about another hour until we came to the part that Jasmine and I were both looking forward to the most.







We enjoyed the splendor of Stonehenge for about an hour and then headed back to the gift shop area where I wanted to buy a souvenir but it was a little too expensive for what it was so I passed. it was basically a plastic model of the area and it was like 16 pounds

We had a really good time but it was a really long day with lots of driving and waiting. I would recommend maybe taking a day for each of the three parts of the tour so you can really soak it in.

Wax People and Oil Paintings

HELLO ALL!

Sorry about the delay in the post but you will get a double helping today :D

We started off yesterday with a little bit of a sleep in. it was still raining a little bit but within about 30 mins we made it down to Madame Tussuad's wax museum. We got into yet another line up and although it seemed to drag on it turns out that the line that we were in was actually the FAST line. the other option was the 4 hour line up that regular people had to take (thank god we bought tickets in advance)




We got in and immediately were greeted by a loud and annoying guy who seemed to work the door and it also seemed that his sole job was to hassle people coming into the museum. Very Strange. He even came into the mens room and yelled at me for taking too long. once inside the museum we started checking out the sculptures. some were really cool, some were less then perfect. the place was PACKED with people and it was very hard to get a decent picture. but we got a couple.

Heres me and Johnny Depp one of the first that we managed to get a picture of. Apparently people were lined up to take pics with this one and I jumped the line. I didn't realize there was a line until it was too late and some lady was all "thats not how you que!" I felt bad.

here are some more pics from the first room.

this next one is for Juliane :P

 some of them did not look very realistic "I dont look anything like John Travolta ohmaigahd"

 And some more.... :D

 me looking creeped out by Julia Roberts and Jasmine With Marilyn :D

Me with Super Man, James Bond "BUCKFUTTER" and the Terminator

 Jasmine and Audry Hepburn

Me and the Beatles, on a side note, JUST as we got the the Beatles the Digital camera battery died so this was shot on film.

Jasmine looking unimpressed by the Princes of England

There are a bunch more pictures. Once we finished the tour though the museum we made our way back home and unwound a little bit then decided to go and see this really fun and cool movie. we both liked it a lot probably because we are both so nerdy and also because it takes place in Toronto and there's a lot of Canadian references in it so that was fun. Pizza Pizza FTW

after the movie we went to a local burger joint that was a lot like "The Works" in Ottawa but a little different. VERY tasty and super big (Jasmine had a little trouble with hers)

That was the end of out day we went to bed a both had WEIRD dreams until this morning... or should I say afternoon.

 We woke up a little late and decided to make ourselves some proper breakfast we both had scrambled eggs and croissants and I had some bacon which is twice as wide here (I'm not complaining just observing) after breakfast we decided to head downtown to SOHO and try and find me a copy of the new MEW album on vinyl. with no luck.





After the failed music shop shopping we went to a comic book store and bought a few souvenirs for our friends and family and made our way to the National Gallery.

we got a little turned around and ended up on a bridge about 10 city blocks from our destination. we were not in any kind of rush so it was ok we just had to walk a lot :P





once we made it to the museum everything was ok. we got in and saw paintings from people like Van Gough, Renoir, Cezan, Monet and a BUNCH more. Really Amazing stuff that picture would do NO justice to. I didn't take any pictures inside the museum mostly out of respect but also because I know the flash damages the paint.

After the gallery we went home and made some dinner. We didn't do a lot today but the things we did do were totally fun and amazing.

Tomorrow we are headed to Stone Henge and Windsor Castle I have to get some sleep now because we have to wake up in 5 hours. Jasmine has been asleep for a while now.

until then Hope all is well in Canada.