Hi Friends!
Sorry it has been so long but I really dont have the time or money to update everyday. Most of the touristy things that I do and see you can see in my photos, so I am just going to touch on a few stories.

The Joke We Played on the Germans
So as you probably know I spent my first week with Tina who is German. When we were in Amsterdam we had a group of Germans living in our same room in our hostel. We didnt know if we could trust them or not to leqve our stuff with them and it not get stolen so we told them that we were both American. Immediately they started talkig about really awkward things that we knew they would not have said if they knew Tina could understand. It was an on going joke. Everytime we left the room Tina would translate what they said to me. Anyways one night they all got really really drunk so Tina would say things to them in German and they would freak out. Then she would tell them she told me something in english and that they were hearing things because she couldnt speak english. It was pretty mean of us, I admit, but they were so drunk that I doubt they remembered the next day.

The Rollerbladers
Every Friday night in Paris up to 20,000 rollerbladers rollerblade for 3 hours through Paris together escorted by the police. Tina and I went to see them and they had light up hats and portable boom boxes and would wave and shout when they saw bystanders. Some of them even had matching tshirts. Hardcore. It took about 15 minutes for all of them to pass and they were going really fast!! If you are ever in Paris on a Friday you should see it.

The Parisian Men (Boys)
One night Tina and I went out looking for the Bastille (which turned out to be right infront of us, we thought it was a building, it was really a monument) and we ran into these two guys, who then decided to follow us to Notre Dame. You can see pictures of them online. If Tina were not there I would have lost them immediately, and I kind of wish we had. They kept putting their arms around us and telling us that they were rich because they had 13,000 euros and that we must come back to Paris and visit them. They were just kind of half annoying and half charming until they told us to get off the train at the wrong stop which made us walk two miles and then they kep talking about giving us a present (which we werent sure what that is and luckily never found out). They finally left us once we pointed down a dark ally and said that was where our hostel was, but not before giving us each two wet sloppy kisses on each cheek. Bleg.

Count of Monte Cristo
Today I took a boat out to the prison that is in the Count of Monte Cristo. It was perhaps my favorite thing I hqve done so far on this trip.

Movie Extra
This is my last and favorite story and it just happend this afternoon. There was a large crowd of people heading up a street and I thought there must be something really good up there so I followed them. I couldnt see anything spectacular but I figured there would be something good soon. We were climbing these stairs and I realized that at the top there were two cameras. Then I was just confused until after I walked past them (I was the last one) and all of the people just stopped waiting for more instructions. I though perhaps they were filming a movie and I asked so,eone and they said yes! I didnt ask whick movie, which was dumb, but I may be in the background of some film. I would be able to spot pretty clearly because I was in the back and separated from everyone else. If only I had asked the name...