Sunday, June 17, 2012

Paris part I...

Fast asleep...The alarm clocks are set to 7:30am, bags are packed (over packed really but it's Paris...) and there are still whites hanging from the bed frame, off of the curtain rod and on various other surfaces that will hopefully be dry by the morning.
7:30 the phones go off. We roll out of bed...The whites are dry...pack...
Outfits, planned the night before, are put on...
Now the not so exciting stuff...clean the kitchen...dishes, garbage, floor...make the house look presentable...8:00am...still scrubbing and re-arranging....8:10, the time we planned on leaving the house passes and we are nowhere near the door...
8:20 the panic strikes...are we really doing this again, we are going to be late for the bus...
The metro takes forever...we are never going to make it. The bus leaves at 9:00...
Arrive at Victoria Station 8:50...start walking while reading signs pointing us towards the bus terminal...running now...its raining...its June 3rd...its cold but we are both drenched and not because of the rain...
Megabus....we made it...
"Hi we are going to Paris"...
"Did you check in?"
T and I look at each other with a combination of grrr just let us on the bus, oops check in?, and we are never going to make it...
"Bus leaves in 2 minutes...go!"...
More running, more sweating, passport searching and panic...Really just a wonderful way to start any trip...We highly recommend it...
On the bus...seats are full...The first person we ask to let us sit together refuses...(insert swear word here) One sitting behind her makes eye contact and moves over...we sit down, take off 3 out of our 4 layers and relax...in 2 hours we will be in Dover ready to cross the English Channel to Calais...then off to Paris...I fall asleep.
 
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                                                            Taken from the bus...

arriving in Dover...

Our Dover board...

on the ferry...

Wave shot...

First carousel somewhere in France

Paris...we made it...