These boots were made for walkin

Yesterday was our last day with our new friends, Jobe (Joseph Bennett), Lori, Lydia, and Stephanie. Lori and Stephanie were together and are from Maine, Jobe is from Norman OK, and Lydia is from Minnesota. They are really cool people. We went into town and basically just walked around. On the way back I got chewed out by the bus driver because I guess he thought I was trying to get on w/o paying, which was stupid because I was standing there paying him (he just wasnt sure if i gave the right amount i guess), while half the people on the bus went right behind me and didnt even attempt to pay. Whatever I guess.

But we went to the beach yesterday and we all got burned. chris just payed 9 euros for some medicine b/c he's got a little outbreak on his leg from the sunburn on his halfburned calf. So all we are doing today is staying at the hostel recovering from our burns and resting because last night him and I stayed up all night w/ Steph and Lori until they left this morning. The funny thing is, I'm not even tired. I slept for about three hours this morning but I'm still doin okay.

Well, not much to say for now. later.

Theres not really much to say about today, but i am at the hostel and there is nothing else to do.

we tried going to Cannes which is just about thirty minutes away, but the trains are on strike today, so we trired taking the bus, but it was gonna take too long just to lay in the sun, so we just decided to stay on the rocky beach here. Sandy beaches in Cannes would have been nice but this one did juts as well, i guess. we layaed out for about three hourss whils chris built a rockyy fortresst that included a place to worsship andmake sacrifices and also a wall. it was funny. then we just left because we all got roasted. i am pretty red but it doesnt hurt, so i think i will be okay.

more useless info...i had chilli and a bread stick for dinner tongiht. this hostel is spretty nice compared to the other ones, sos i hear. we haave a kitchen, free internet, and they haave cheap "drinks" that i dont tdrink. so i jut gottaa makae sure that i dont set my standrds too high for the resst we are gonna stay in because i have hearad some baad stories.

i just wannaa say thanaks for the comments too. yallg et to hear from me through t hiss but its also reallyyg ood to hear from the other side every o nce and a while. let me know whats goin on with yall.

later everyone

ok, so its been a while since i've done this. the main reason is because i dont have much time to do much else besides check my mail because internet at this hostel is free and people are always in line waiting to get on. anyway, i'm here now and i'm somewhat gonna take my time. you're supposed to be on here for twenty minutes but most people could care less and just sit there forever.

anyway...i'm here in Nice, France now. On the way here we took a nigh train that had six beds in each room. five out of the six people in there spoke english so it was a good time. we had good conversation and all, so.

then it took us forever to find our hostel because the directions were so bad. basically what we did was go north and hope we found it. I dont know how, but we did. The Lord was gracious, cuz i felt hopeless.

but we have had a lot of fun ever since we got here though. we've already met some cool people and we went out with them today to Monnoco which i guess is kind of like D.C., in a way. Its in France but it's its own country. It was really rich looking. We went inside one casino that was free and some of the people went to a castel while the others just chilled at the bottom of the stairs chattin. oh, and yesterday me and chris went to the beach which has no sand. they are rocks about the size of your fist, but are smooth, so laying down on the "beach" didnt hurt too bad.

thats about it really i guess. but the people we have met are cool and somewhat crazy. one couple has been traveling for ten weeks and plans to do it for 9 months total. another couple has been traveling for a year and seven days. so if yall thought 6 weeks was long, think again. anyway, 6 weeks seems longer and longer to me. i miss everyone. its fun here, but i still cant wait to get back.

Well, yesterday we travelled through many train systems, bus routes(and not necessarily by bus) and backwoods to get to the Chateau of Versaille, my other favorite place so far to go along with the pantheon. Thinking this would be a repeat day of useless travel because it took us so long to find our way, we strolled up to the place hoping it would still be open, and thank the Lord, it was. We walked through the talk black and gold tipped metal gated fence that is lined throughout all of important places in Paris and up to the building itself on the uneven cobble stone ground. The building itself looked for the most part like other historical buildings we have seen, so we went straight to garden behind and to the right side of the place. Got a picture of that and then went to directly behind the place and got one of the coolest views I have seen since being here. The backyard went down into a valley where there was a long lake where people could pay 8 euros to row a boat in it. People were all around jogging and riding bikes too, so I guess they use it as a park too.

Oh, and a highlight that happened in the white lines up there that I left out was something that happened on the train on the way there. Its kind of a short story but still kinda good I think. Me and Mei were waiting on a train to get to versaille so when it came, we got on, even though we weren’t 100 percent sure it was going where we wanted it to take us. We get on and it unusually slowly pulls out and then finally stops. The conductor says something in French that of course we cant understand and then turns off the lights. So we are sitting there trapped, not knowing what to do. Then some guy goes walking by the train, ends up being the conductor and he takes us to another station he was going to anyway. It ended up being ok, but it worried us a little bit for a while.

The restaurant we went to for lunch said the people there spoke English, which was a lie; kind of. Our waiter understood when I said menu and omlet and that’s about it. Then half the food on their menu wasn’t available. For dinner we ate at a fast good place, but I cant remember its name, but it was good.

Then at midnight we hung out at the internet café talking to the owner and this guy we met a couple days ago that doesn’t have a job. The owner is from Cameroon and is now setting up a business in Dallas and our friend says he doesn’t have a job because he is lazy. But he is really into American pop culture. He is really into g-unit if any of you know what that is.

Anyway, Mei says I have written too much, and I probably have, so I will sign off for now.