A Day in the Life of 2 Colorado Girls in Paris


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September 7th 2005
Published: September 16th 2005
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Yep, that's it.
5:45- Arrive in Paris, read Metro map and Paris street map as if we designed city. Arrive at pub aka hostel.

8:30- Upon review of wash closet, shower is too sketch, they're over rated anyways.

9:00- Fuel body with pastry and cafe au lait.

9:45- Return to train station. Buy tickets to Switzerland for 6 euros.

10:00- Focused sight seeing begins: opera house? check.

10:20- Perform Elephant Love Song medley (with harmonies) outside the Moulin Rouge. Bypassers mistake us for 2 Nicole Kidmins.

11:00- Metroed to a closed Marche de Puces.

11:01- Turned our frowns upsidown and marched to Arc de Triumphe.

12:00- Choked down chicken panini. Made a few Orangina jokes, pronouncing the "gina" part of Orangina as if it had a "va" in front of it. Haha.

13:00- Catacombs. Made like Indiana Jones and decended darkened spiral staircase into the labrynth of crypts underground Paris. Like any good Coloradoan, headlamps were retrieved for better viewing of thousands of skulls and femurs. Whistled a happy tune.

15:30- Hit classy and awesome Rodin Museum. Who knew the Thinker would just be sitting there in the garden!

18:00- Tomatina laundry. Its
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"All you need is love. A girl has got to eat. All you need is love. You'll end up in the street! All you need is love. Love is just a game. I was meant for loving you baby, you were meant for loving me. The only way of loving me baby is to pay a lovely fee. Just one night, give me just one night..." (you can continue singing, we did)
about time since it's been marinating for over a week!

20:30- Turn up the cute, turn down the travel trash look and metro to Les Deux Magots, popular hangout for Hemingway, Picasso, Sartre, D-Team and Scottie among others.

23:30- Pass out wonderfully, despite the drunken Aussie backdrop.


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Ahhhhh!!!!!!! (good thing we have those head lamps...)


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