Bonne Annee!

on the ride over

PARIS

Dec 31-2010

10am arrive in paris  

11am lise buys me a croissant

that blue dot is 80lb luggage

11:30am lise and i drag my 80lb luggage up winding stairs

3pm cheny and nathan meet us at lise’s apt

4pm eiffel tower, beautiful lights, lots of pics
5:30 nathan proposes to cheny at sunset in front of the eiffel tower!!

newly weds

la tour eiffel

7:45pm almost miss dinner reservation at le baron, but fortunately no one in paris eats that early

twinkle twinkle

8:30pm all 9 of us (include ash and her fam) are eating things like lobster raviole, rosted chicken, scallops and risotto
10:30pm spent the most money (my own money that is...) On dinner in my life, but it was worth it

polet roti

scallops

filet

le baron

vive la france!

that is breath

sacre coeur

12am watch homemade, dangerous fireworks at the top of montmatre in sacre coeur

12:01am ate 12 bites of an apple, because cheny's colombian tradition is with grapes but we couldn't find any
1am tried to get on train to the bastille because the only thing in sacre coeur is a church and sex shops

cheny's new tradition

1:10am too many ppl on metro, ashley's mom and sis too scared to fight to get on. So I stick my hand in the door and ash pulls me out, but we r now separated from the french ppl
2am I take ash, mom and sis bak to hotel and cheny and nathan come along
2:30am lise and other french girl meet us at the bar in the marriott
3am we make 5 or 6 new friends from around the world who convince the closed bar and the closed kitchen to serve us champagne and pizza all night long

champagne and pizza rive guache marriott 

5am ashley goes bak to her room
6:30am me, lise, french chic, cheny and nathan take the train bak to apt


7am stop at bakery and buy three croissants as they are coming out of the oven
7:30am I sleeeeep
8am cheny and nathan go to catch the 9am train to clermont
2pm lise makes me breakfast
4pm I wake up from a nap and start 2011