A Sea of Exploration: A Well Deserved Spring Break

Yes indeed it is that time again and unlike other spring breakers out in the world flocking to warmer climates like Tijuana, i chose instead to surprise my visiting girlfriend to go to Paris, France. After seeing the sights and smells of Barcelona we hoped a plane to beautiful Paris were we spent 4 days just bumming around the city eating crapes, drinking cafe ole and just emerging ourselves in the French culture. After being there for one day the second part of my surprise to my girlfriend kicked in. After spending most of the morning trying to contact my surprise we finally meet Erin Tumey and her boyfriend Cory at the Louvre were Sara as expected was really shocked and excited to see her best friend from the Rome Architecture people. So we bummed around the four of us around the city seeing everything we could until Friday, when we had to leave. This is when the problems start. so we get lost on the unforgiving metro system to get to the bus depot to the airport too late. A local taxi driver saw that we were in distress and came to the rescue he told us he could get us to the airport in 40 mins 20 quicker than the bus and so we hoped in.

thats when the excitement began... after getting on the highway this 55 year old French man who didn't speak English puts on black eyed peas and cranks the music he then tells us (Sara translated) to watch out for the police, and then he steps on it. now usually when you tell a taxi to go fast they might do 10 over the speed limit , well not this guy, in a speed limit of 100 km he decides to do 210 km. To put it in perspective it was like being in a race car game where the cares are almost in standstill and you just whip in and out between them. after getting to the airport in one piece and 130 euro fee we walk up to the counter to have them turn us around because we were too late so needless to say after getting new tickets and a 10 hour wait we finally made it back to good ol Barca.

On Saturday Sara and i went to Casa Batllo and Sagrada Familia and let me say actually touring them and doing the whole touron thing (Tourist + Moron = Touron) taking pictures and listening to explanations on headsets. These buildings are CRAZY and i love how well thought out things are all the way to how a washroom was designed for better ventilation and natural lighting. All and All this vacation was one of a lifetime and i had a great time. But im also glad to be back in Barca you know it has a tendency to grow on you...

Ahh Paris.