Oh Paris..You had me at Bonjour.

Last stop of the voyage... PARIS! Lets try to find our Hostel in this gigantic city. Oh cool it is in the ghetto.

First stop....Why not a photoshoot by the Eiffel Tower! It was amazing to see it in person.

I never scene anything so tall! We were going to try to get to the top but there was just so many people trying to do the same thing!

Exploring the city... The church at the Les Invalides where we saw Napolean Bonaparte's tomb.

Church of Notre Dame. Beautiful Gothic Cathedral.

King Louis Palace. This Palace was ginourmous. The Palace had paintings and murals everywhere, so you were always looking up. (see picture below haha). The garden was miles long and we even took a detour and snuck in some places!

Musee De Louvre where the famous Mona Lisa is held. It was surprisingly small.

Our feet were tired but we kept on moving. The church with the view of the city and a crazy soccer juggler showing off his tricks.
So why not top the day off with some delicious beer :)

Spencer and I ventured to see the Arc de Triomphe who honors those who died in the French Revolutionary war. Up top it had a gorgeous 360 view of Paris. There, you can really see how big it is!

Some more veiws of the city...

We watched the World Cup game USA vs Ghana and we will never forget that night. They had a jumbo monitor in front of the Eiffal Tower and it was insane! We had quite a few USA people but Ghana fans were insane! I ended up punching a guy and Tanya got a little crazy on one to when they taunted us after scoring and winning in overtime. We had a close encounter with Ghana fans at the metro also. Lets just say we made it back to the Hostel. It was an experience for sure and I am not a fan of Ghana fans. But the Eiffel tower was really pretty when it lit up at at night when it sparkled!

Well Paris was an adventure for sure. It was really big and you could literally spend a whole week there and still not see everything! But three days was good for me. I am not the city type so I will stay with the adventure land. Paris was surprisingly really dirty behind the pictures. The metro was my least favorite, it was crowded and smelled of urine and b.o. Besides that I would have to say everything went well in Paris! Ciao! This was the last journey on our backpacking itinerary. Off to Zurich and a 12 hr flight home!

How about those Belgium waffles?

Farewell Amsterdam...You did wonders to my keen eye. Brussels, Belgium shall be our next stop for a day to break up the train ride to Paris!

Brussels was a huge city. We stayed at a Hostel right next to the Grand Place.

market square full of tourists and real Belgium WAFFLES!!! Can you say delicious waffles with ice cream and chocolate?

Checked out the local bar scene and found a band playing!

I will miss your waffles. Peace

I Amsterdam

The next stop on our list is Amsterdam! I am really excited to see this place and don't know what to expect. All I have heard about Amsterdam is the Red Light District and Coffee shops! I can just tell this is going to be an awesome three days here!

As soon as we arrive we already have an incident with the trams... but it was a funny one none the less. We hop on the tram to take us to the center and the doors close as it departs. Spencer isn't on. He is standing outside while we are riding off. Oh Spencer here we go again...Hopefully he will get the next one and find the hostel! We arrive at our stop and Nick gets off then all of a sudden in the five seconds of stopping the doors close on us and me and Tanya are stuck on the tram till the next stop. We just start laughing really ha

rd about to pee our pants because this would happen to all of us. So we catch a tram back to

Nick and manage to hustle off the tram. Those were some speedy doors on those trams! We end up at the Hostel and miraculously Spencer actually beats us there! The fun has already started! This is place is crazy and there are bicyclists everywhere... in fact I had a few close encounters with a few.

I hostel was located next to Vondell Park and the canals. It was within walking distance to ever

ything. We decided to go get dinner and explore a little for the evening. Amsterdam was so unique. The roads were cobblestone and it is a city built on canals. It was so pretty and quaint. Boat taxis went up and down the canals, the houses were connected to each other and were actually crooked! It looked like an illusion and the atmosphere was just so alive! We decided to check out our first Coffeeshop. I had no clue what to expect and was a little wierded out by it. The Coffee shop smelled of smoke and there were menus to order all sorts of flavors and different joints of all different prices. You can even roll it your self! How convenient!

Amsterdam has amazing shopping...shops everywhere. Too bad I only had limit on what I can actually carry... so Tanya and I got some sweet leather jackets.

Spencer can eat this car.

Another highlight of Amsterdam is the famous Red Light District and hopefully you don't find the occasional blue light! I didn't know what to expect, actually I didn't know what the RLD was! We ventured to it and there were prostitutes in windows selling themselves! Holy crap that was a scene. It was really crazy at night and we would see guys do in the doors... Hmm. We dared Spencer to ask how much and he did! It was an experience for sure.

This is one of my favorite pictures I took....

We also visited the first Coffeeshop ever. The Bulldog!

Amsterdam was one of my favorite stops. Everything about it was so unique and gorgeous and awesome place to take some pictures. Eating a sandwich overlooking the canals or

exploring the strange red light district this place is a must see!

Visting the Cannabis College and the Flower market!

Off to Praha!! Lets catch that train!

Well Switzerland was amazing. Its beauty and people were just so amazing! I could see myself living there. And meeting the family was just so awesome! They were really nice and I appreciate them taking us in for a few days!

We got on our overnight train to Prague, Czech Republic. It was only supposed to be a six hour train ride... well to say the least it ended up being a 14 hour journey because there was detour on the tracks. Lets just say it was a really long ride and our overnight train cabin was the size of a shoebox!

The train ride went through Austria which was gorgeous green hills. spencer sticking his head out.. don't hit the pole!

Our destination has arrived. Please exit the train. Now off to the hostel. Praha is really cheap, but then it adds up. We stayed in Praha for 3 days wondering around the beautiful city. We checked out a cemetery from the holocaust, Prague castle, and watched the matches. And their currency goes by Crowns with really large numbers on your bills! It was weird. Praha is a Gothic city with cobblestone roads and amazing architecture of gothic gargoyles and statues everywhere surrounded by a river.

We are rich in Czechs!

We watched the World Cup in the center! It was really neat seeing fans from every country. Guess who was playing?

We explored the Prague Castle and Church. So intricate and gorgeous!

Enjoying some wine overlooking the city!




A really cool wall we found.

We all tried Absinth for the first time. It was really intense! They guy lit it on fire and we all shared a sip. It was gross.

The famous Charles Bridge.

Keeping your shoes in Praha.

Figuring out the game plan.

We even did a pub crawl to have some night fun and lets just say we were the coolest girls there with the best dance moves! Tanya and I decided to be twin sisters Taylor and Peyton. It worked quite well. We partied all night with some crazy people and ended up getting back to the hostel at 4 am and it was sunrise. We forgot to go to bed... oops. And now we have to pack and leave to the train station in 2 hours. Now this is where it get interesting and really funny.. not at the time but when we look back on it later! We get back to the hostel and we are still drunk and Spencer is in bed sleeping. He headed back a little earlier than us. I take shower to wake up and rinse the sweat off from dancing! It is about 5 am and I am packing and try to sleep for 30 min. I am exhausted and wake Spencer up. We are supposed to catch the bus at 6:50 to catch are train leaving at 6:31 am. He still has to pack. We hustle and sprint to the bus and we miss it. We are freaking out and are all still trying to sober up. We hop on the next bus at 6:12 am. We get to the station at 6:27 am. Holy crap we are about to miss our train... It is time to SPRINT!!! We book it through the station yelling trying to find our gate. I never new my cousin Nick was so fast. We are all running out of breath from being drunk/ trying to sprint with a 35 lb backpack on you. Let me just tell you it wasn't that easy. We swerve around the corner, up the stairs and scramble on the train. Two seconds later the door closes and the train departs. WE MADE IT!!! And now I can't breath... actually neither of us can. Water please. I don't think I have ever sprinted so hard or Spencer for that fact. It looked like we were in a movie chasing a train and I feel that this experience of running drunk to catch a train was necessary for a REAL backpacking experience!! Well now its time for shut eye and six hour train ride to Berlin. Hello headphones with Mr. Jack Johnson and my eye covers I snatched from the plane ride. Then spencer looses his train pass and we make him go hide from the evil ticket checking lady person. That didn't last long.. so he had to buy a ticket. But in the end we eventually made it to Berlin!

Berlin!

Berlin was just a day trip to cut the trip to Amsterdam short and to catch up on rest. We were in need of that for sure. We rented bikes and followed the Berlin wall. My butt hurt at the end of that day!
The wall had really pretty artwork on each piece.

It was a really really long bike ride following a really really long wall.