We love Paris so much we had to extend our stay! Or We realized how expensive trains are and are more or less stuck here for a bit

TUESDAY 8-23

This morning was not the most exciting.

It started with our “free breakfast”= a croissant from the vending machine in the lounge.

We then adventured to get free Wifi at the local McDonalds (managing, of course, to get lost on the way)

At McDonalds we made the unpleasant discovery that we have far too small a budget to travel to a place between Paris and Toulouse so we decided to stay in Paris two more days and booked a new hostel around the Moulin Rouge. We then made the unfortunate discovery that a train from Toulouse to Rome was over $300 plus we had booked a $65 dollar ticked to Toulouse. GROOOOOOSSSSS.  Charlie decided it was too much for him and made the suggestion to just skip Toulouse since he isn’t staying with Michelle’s friend Maxime. We now are contemplating if we can exchange our Toulouse tickets and pay the difference for train from Paris to Rome. Unfortunately WE DON’T SPEAK FRENCH and are having a difficult time translating the train’s policies. We decided we would have to hold off until we reconnect with Flora and ask her for assistance.

I guess it’s all up in the air right now. We’re good until Friday but until then our plans are a big old question mark.

This is me, learning to roll with punches… I think it will be a valid lesson for the next four months.

We had a lovely park picnic (a common theam already on this trip) and ate sandwiches in Place de Vosge. 

It was quite pretty. Afterwards we walked to Fount San Michel we wandered around the area and took pictures of pretty buildings and Michelle standing under 800 different signs.

We met up with Flora and she took us on a 3 hour tour of the city at night. It was BEAUTIFUL AND SOOOOOO WONDERFUL! I love Flora and Paris and we learned so much!  It was so much fun and FREE- can’t top that! We returned to our hostel for the final night and eagerly met our beds.