France

Unfortunately, we were misinformed about train times and ended having to take a later, much slower, and sweltering hot train. We were all pretty pissed off about that because there was no air, the windows barely opened, we weren't brought food like they said we would be, and we were out of water for most the trip. Not only that, but now our reservations to go see Normandy were completely shot, which was a huge thing we wanted to do while in France. Anyhow, we made it to Paris after a long time and took a subway to a hotel we found. We all took a much-needed shower, and then Cassie and I took the subways to the Eiffel tower. When we got there, we were bummed to find out it was closed for the night and that we couldn't eat in the restaurant inside of it. We got some good pictures though and ran into some drunk French teenagers that offered us whiskey, lol. They informed us that the metro (subway) was closing at a certain time, but we'd planned on walking back to our hotel anyways. So we started walking, got some dinner at a place that charged 6 euros for a bottle of water lol, then headed back to the hotel. On the way back we got some awesome pictures of the Eiffel tower and of some statue on the bridge, then caught a cab after we realized it was going to be way too long of a walk.

The next morning, we headed to the most retarded airport I've ever seen in my entire life- Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport. There were no signs telling which terminals housed which airlines, which buses went where, which check-in facilities belonged to which airline, etc... Two people told us to go to the wrong terminals, then finally a bus driver knew the correct one. Then, some guy at the check-in line asked me where I was going...

Him: "Boston or Chicago?"
Me: "Neither... Detroit..."

That went on for about 5 minutes before some other lady realized he was being a moron and helped me out lol. So I said my goodbyes to Cassie and Allie (which sucked), then headed out.

The flight back was quite interesting... I lucked out and got Business (First) class, which is absolutely amazing on international flights. The chairs recline to a full sleeping position, you get realy nice headphones, an entertainment system complete with music, movies, etc... that flips out with an LCD screen from your seat, 2 full 4 course meals, the whole works! The guy sitting next to me was making small talk and I ended up telling him that I was flying standby because my dad worked for the airlines. He goes "Is your dad anybody at NWA?" and it confused me a bit, but I just answered yes. Well within 2 seconds I realized what the snob meant. The guy goes "Tell your father that the service on these European flights is TERRIBLE. The Asian service is okay, but Europe is bad," depsite the fact that the flight attendants could not have babied us more... They didn't bother us, yet they gave us anything we wanted. He went on an on complaing about how he had booked coach seats with his wife, then tried to upgrade them with their frequent flyer miles. Well they were on separate accounts, so he couldn't use his miles to help her our when she ran out. So he made her sit in coach alone while he took first class.... nice, eh? I was fed up with hearing him at this point so I just started to try and get him to stop talking to me. Eventually I think he got the picture and ended up moving seats to somewhere else in first class lol.