group project theme 2

Many people love taking vacations. Vacations are a great way of spending time with your family and loved ones like friends. I myself have taken many vacations with my family and friends. It always starts out the same. You figure out who will be able to go, when you will be able to go and where you will be able to go. You got to make sure that at least one of these three things are decided before you go on your vacation in order to have your full potential of fun on the particular trip you are taking. When you figure out as much as you want you pack for the type of trip you are taking. Whether it is your needs or your wants you must make sure you bring all of the essential items with you. One of the bad things about this is it you don’t remember these things it may cause some people to start out on the wrong foot.
You have so many different types of vacations you can do with so many different ways of taking them. Some people go backpacking around and stay wherever they can find a place and others might do it very well planned out. In my family we don’t really do it like everyone else. When we pack we pack for any weather and since my mom is a flight attendant we get free airfare anywhere in the country and we only pay takes to leave the country. When we leave the house we leave not knowing where we will end up not having any reservations and with nothing planned but we do however know who it will be most the time my mother, my brother and me.
My family is very different in this for the fact that we go to the airport and just randomly pick a flight by either closing our eyes or taking the next flight out of town and just go from there. We find this to be the best way because my family pretty much lives by Murphy’s Laws and the one that fits us the best and always happens when we plan is “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. This is why we stopped planning.
Which brings me to how I ended up on one particular vacation that will always be remembered by my mother, brother and me. It was our trip to France; it wasn’t really the place that made it memorable it was more of what happened on it. It started out pretty much the same with the whole picking system to the same everything well that was till we got to the French Airport.
We were at the airport looking for a hotel; nothing really seems harmless with that right? Well it took us three hours to get to the front of the line to talk to the lady in a 10 person or less line with two people working behind the counter. Well to make matters worse they tried rushing us and were very rude. We asked the lady if we could see some brochures of some hotels and we asked if she could reserve one. So she started to pull all these brochures out and we were mostly looking for the ones in our price range at the time and nothing looked good at all. The buildings looked ugly or they were in a bad area. So she finally pulled out a small little brochure that was about 3”x2” maybe even smaller than that, but it sure did have a beautiful picture on it of the inside lobby of the hotel. This looked like the one we wanted; well little did we know that the hotel card was pretty much the ration of the lobby. It was like for every inch the card was the lobby was five feet and it had a lot of furniture some much that only three people could really fit into it and still be able to move a little bit. Not only that but the elevator could only fit about one person comfortably and that was about it. It also took about five minutes for it to go up one floor and trust me I’m not exaggerating on that I wish I were.
You would think well hopefully the rooms are the same size or something but the rooms were even smaller. It had two beds in it, a side table, and a run down television set. The worst thing was to move in the room you had to climb over people and things. The room had absolutely not walking room so just to even get to the bathroom was a lot of trouble.
Some people with just this alone would have left and found another hotel or went back home. We wanted to find another hotel but we couldn’t the hotels were all booked up and the only ones left ran about 300 euros and if you know anything about euros you would know that it is about 500 dollars for a room. So we decided to stay because we were staying for a five-day week and only brought about 1,000 for us to have a good time. The room was already about $100 on its own so we had about 500 left that we could spend.
The first day we spent in Paris we just walked around the city and walked to many different places. We started our trip for the day at 7 a.m. and didn’t get back till about 3 a.m. We walked threw back alley’s and we went to different crepe places and ate it was awesome. One thing while we were walking threw the back alley’s we ran into jugglers and my brother just so happens is one so they asked him to show them what he can do because they thought they would be able to show him up but boy were they wrong. They were amazed with what my brother could do and he made them look like a newbie.
The second day of our trip is what I like to call the church day. We went to some many different churches that day. We went to the 16th chapel that Michael Angelo painted and we saw that it was amazing. I had never seen something like that in my whole life before. We also went to many other famous churches and my brother wanted some holly water to kind of be a reminder thing so my mom as she may be decided to get it for him because he was to scared to do it himself. So what we did was filled it up into a small little water bottle that we had; then we put it into my backpack purse. Later that day when my mom was getting thirsty I went into my purse to try to find the other bottle of water and told her to hold onto the holly bottle and well she didn’t here me. So she went to take a sip of the holly water and looked at what it looked like and was like “WOW!!! This isn’t right”. So she threw the bottle of water away with the cap off of it and so we joked around with her the whole trip and still even to this day that she blessed a trashcan on the street corner of Paris.
When we were there we also went and saw the Louvre, which is one of the biggest museums in the world. It has some of the most famous artwork of all times like the Mona Lisa. It has several miles of artwork and it would take you forever just to be able to look at all the artwork in the building. Well unfortunately we didn’t have that much time but we did get to see at least two miles of it and we did get to see the Mona Lisa in person. The sad thing was the two miles didn’t even cover half of the building. We also went to several other museums after that one and they were all so magnificent it will be something I will never forget.
The fourth day we decided to take a nice little boat ride on the water and see all the bridges and we ended up seeing the French Statue of Liberty which is a lot smaller than the one we have. The bridges were all so different and had different types of architecture and designs on the side of them it was gorgeous and we even started to see it when the sun was going down and some of it lit up for us. After the boat ride we headed over to the Eiffel tower. We weren’t able to go to the very top but we went up really high and got to see the beautiful city all around us it was breath taking and magnificent. You could even see the lights glistening off the water from the city. The wind was blowing a little and the air had the sweet smell of a chilly night even if it wasn’t down on the ground it felt like it up in the sky. It will always be stuck in my memory and my heart because that was breath taking.
The fifth day we decided that we would rent a car and go see other countries for a couple of days because we still had money left over somewhat. So we went downstairs to reserve a car and walk to the car place. So we set out on our walk early in the morning like we did everything else. However unlike all the other days this day started off bad. The hotel gave us really bad directions and got us lost so we asked for directions and that got us even more lost than what we already were. So we finally devised a plan that we thought would work. We decided to find the train station and ask them where the car rental place was. We waited in line two hours so that we could get the directions. When we finally got them we started to follow them and those directions were to the wrong place and got us lost again. We then finally found a nice American couple that gave us directions to the car rental place. Sad thing was the car rental place was a few blocks up the hill from the train station. We finally made it there the lady however tried closing the doors 30 minutes before they were suppose to close. Then she tried telling us that she gave our car away that we reserved to pick up. Then she tried giving us a smaller car double the price of what the first one was. We even said we would take it and when that happened she tried telling us that she gave that one away too. Then the car rental lady started yelling at my brother and me and that made my mom get really angry because not only was she yelling at us but she was also treating us bad. So my mom kicked into protection drive and started to defend us and started yelling back and wanted to kick her butt for doing what she was doing. We had to drag our mom out of there because she was so mad.
When we finally left home we had a good flight back and looked back on our vacation and said “wow that was fun” and we will never forget that trip. We got to see just about anything and everything on that drip and even got to have a taste of foreign drama as I like to call it. All I know is this trip will always be remembered and cherished by us for not only the beauty of the country but for the stories we have to tell. The only bad thing I must say that came out of that trip is I don’t really like the French as much as I use to no offense of course.