Day 20 – Saturday December 25th 2010 (Christmas Day) (Paris, France)

CHRISTMAS DAY! GRAWWW!!! Today we woke up and ventured out into the sunshine a tad reluctantly but excited all the same to discover a whole new world together like Aladdin and Jasmine. We decided to leave our bags at the hostel while we were venturing because we were both developing hunchbacks and we didn’t want to have permanent positions at the Notre Dame. We went to the Arch du Triumph frist and saw some terrible dancing street performers who we shunned with our upturned noses. We ate some crepes at a Christmas carnival. Then we traveled to the Eiffel Tower and got some nice pictures right up close and personal then we dashed over to the Louvre again so we could grab a few pictures together outside and then a quick jaunt over to the Notre Dame in order to see it in all its sunshine covered glory. By then we were running from place to place and we knew we were in danger of missing our train. We started to just literally run non-stop and caught a metro to the hostel, picked up our bags and then caught another hostel back to the Train Station. Unfortunately our train was completely gone. We had missed it. We both collapsed in a heap and panted in misery. We immediately accepted our imminent death in Paris. After a moment of that we just got up and reserved the next train out to Marseille. Turns out the next train was a bit later so we grabbed an hour of sleep and then road to Marseille in anticipation of another glorious restless night in the terribly cold Marseille station.. We will be glad when we never have to see that retched place again. We spent the night talking to our families which was really nice seeing how it was Christmas and we got on our train to Nice at about 8am.