Day 9 or shall we say Vienna by any means
Day 9- Well today I was up with the sun, ready to take on the day…well first I had to catch up on my blogging…but then ready to take on the day! Our plans for today were to use the “free” city bikes and go to Schonbrunn Palace. We were then going to visit the Opera House to see if we could catch a bit of that as well! Well…that was THE PLAN… We got off to a bit of a late start…why you ask? Shower troubles! Not that the shower didn’t work mind you…just we didn’t know how to work it! We all needed to shower this morning, and Reid went first. All of the showers that we have encountered so far in Europe are the 2 piece type (where the handle comes off and is connected to a tube…hope that...
Days 4-8
Okay so I am a bit behind in my postings! Well thank you spotty internet and hotels with no wifi! Also, add in a crazy European road trip in our pumpkin on wheels…and voila here we are a bit behind. We are in our hotel room in Vienna, Russ and Reid are still sleeping…so I thought that I would try to catch up on my posting! Day 4- Strausborg Okay I will admit that I did not know much about this great city! Well, today we got to know it really well! We did a few fun touristy things that were inexpensive, but great! To sum up” * We went on a boat tour and got to see lots of interesting old houses, buildings, walls, bridges, boats…What was the best part? Going through the locks (I am not sure if that is the correct spelling so...
Day 3
I am not sure I would have gotten out of bed on day 3, if I knew what was in store for me! Today was the day that we were checking out of our flat in Montmartre and picking up our rental car! Now let me just paint a bit of a gruesome picture here…the three of us have 2 backpacks each. I am not talking 2 go to school or take to an amusement park backpacks…I am talking weeks in the wilderness backpacks on our backs ( you know the ones I am taking about…the hippie backpacks!) and over stuffed day packs on our fronts. So as we are checking out of our apartment, the gentlemen helping us asks where we are going to pick up the car, and when we tell him, he looks shocked and then says “Ew, zat iz a long way”… not to mention the fact...
Day 2
Today started a bit earlier and better than yesterday! Our plan for the day was to go to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. As I sat down to look through my Rick Steves’ guide…the words almost shouted at me from the page…and I quote “Frankly, you’d be crazy to show up without a reservation.” I was crushed. I hastily went on the official website and they had nothing. We looked at expensive tours, more of the same! Finally we found at tour that would get us in, it cost us 120 euro, but we would not have to wait in line. We thought about it and weighed our options, and decided to just go for it (and the real reason is that Russ is a tightwad!). Not only would this be a risk, but we also were going to have to take the metro...
Day 1
Well day one is really only like 1/2 a day! Why you ask? Well because we woke up at 3:00 a.m. (thank you time change…jet lag…finally getting some sleep). Because you cannot start your day at 3:00 a.m., we decided to stay up…that worked…until about 6:30 a.m. when we promptly fell back asleep, only to wake up at 10:40. Oh well, by the time we showered and ate a little something…it was noon! Since we started the day a bit late, we decided to stick around Montmartre. I was so excited I got my Rick Steves Paris book and we were set! We walked right from our apartment to the Sacre Coeur ( about 5 min…all up hill…and all stairs)! When we got to the top, Montmartre was straight out of a french painting! It was just what...
Day Zero continued
We are waiting anxiously to board our plane and are awaiting the call for our row number. Then the first call…Upper class (with 2 crew members greeting each passenger as they come through the line). Next, comes World Class, then Gold class, Silver class, Bronze class…and we still wait. I think the announcement was for Economy class, or No class, or We Know You Are Cheap Bastards class, in other words it was our turn. And no, we could not enter through the same line as the other classes…we actually had a separate line with one person taking our passes. As we walk on the plane, I am thinking to myself this is really nice, and then I keep walking…past the bar…past the leather seating…past the seats that actually look like an...
Day Zero or as I like to say “How many pills can I take?”
For days before we left for our trip I kept thinking that the trip I was about to embark on didn’t seem real. Maybe that was because we were traveling all over saying goodbye…and oh yeah helping to prepare and put on a yard sale for my husband’s parents (just the thing to help anyone prepare for a months long trip around the globe!). The day finally arrived, Day Zero. What am I talking about ? Day Zero? Well that is the day that you leave for your trip, but you are not really doing anything fun. You are in transit that day…and it really stinks! We were flying Virgin Atlantic…aren’t we cool? And I just knew that Richard Branson was going to make my trip amazing! I was going to feel like a young international jet...
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