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Au Revoir!

Today we saw the Notre Dame, it was unbeleivable to see how old and historic that building is. We're off again tomorrow to Vienna. We had to leave a day early because the trains are all booked on Sunday! So, we have 14 hours of traveling again tomorrow. It will be nice to be in our own apartment to rest up before the intensive.

Au Revoir Paris!

Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, then shop to you drop!

Bonjour Friends!
So, it is our 3rd day in Paris and we have been on the move every day all day. We surprisingly found the metro fairly well from our hostel,after only about a half hour of walking when it should have taken about 15. We struggled to use our broken french to communicate to strangers. Yesterday we traveled to the Eiffel Tower taking hourly detours to shop in every boutique we saw. The fashion here is so inspiring and unique!

Art surrounds us. Break dancers under the Eiffel Tower. Musicians in the subways. Soccer players performing tricks to music. We decided to add a spice of our own culture by improvising in the grass in front of the Eiffel Tower. We might have drawn some attention to ourselves, but we turned out with some great pictures! haha.

We started our day this morning with a workout in the tiny dorm room upon sheets laid out to cover the dirty floor, and did our Ed Burgess/Simone Ferro workout. Nikka instructed me to do 30 reps of each exercise. She demanded.
10 hours later after walking miles, it felt like our backs were breaking and our feet were about to fall off. Sandals were a bad choice.

Soon there after, we hopped on the metro to the Louvre only to get distracted by 2 shops this time and checking the opera for ballets. Unfortunately, the ballet does not perform during the summer. The Louvre was beautiful. The Mona Lisa, sculptures by Michelangelo, and the Egyptian Sphinx were few of the many attractions we were delighted to see. We proceeded to walk down the Champ Elysee to see the Arch De Triumph and admire the overpriced designer stores where we long to indulge ourselves in.

That's about it for now!

We made it!

Bonjour all!
After a lot of confusion, and unforeseen chaos through airports and train stations (let me mention unexpectedly without each other) we have finally made it!! Thankfully Nikka was waiting for me outside of the hostel and we were in tears we were so happy to see each other. It is about 10 pm here Tuesday night and neither of us have slept since we left Wisconsin Monday morning so we're heading to bed! I'll hopefully have more exciting news and pictures in the next few days.

Europe will never be the same...

As some of you might already know, Nikka and I have been planning a trip to Europe for about the past year, we now are about 4 days away from leaving and I still can't believe it! We've gone from buying plane tickets that we'll be paying off for years to come, to thinking we were getting scammed by our apartment landlord in Vienna. Thankfully, we're finally all set to go and very anxious to leave! We will be in Germany, France and Austria for 3 weeks. The first week we will be in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France traveling, site seeing and doing some serious shopping! The last two weeks we will be in Vienna, Austria attending a dance intensive called Impulz Tanz (hence the title). I will try to post as much as possible over the course of the trip; pictures, and updates on what we are up to. Please feel free to post comments, suggestions on places to go, see, ect. See you in Germany!

http://www.impulstanz.com/