Monday

Monday- Today Terry and Marylin dropped me off at the Park of Europe while they did errands. It is bastically a GIANT park (I mean it is a little bigger than michigan's adventure I'd say) with mini famous things from most of the different countries in it. Since it was 102 degrees outside I only saw a couple, but they were cool!

The grand entrance!

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Okay, just saying, it is very hard to take a selfie with you and a whole giant building in it :)

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Okay here I was in a little cave type thing, and there was SHADE!! *cue the heavenly sounds* because there was little shade in the park that had benches underneath for me to sit down. So I'm like "yay! I can chill here, and read my book" then I saw ants crawling on the fake rocks. I'm sorry, I do not even share the same floor with ants much less a place where I SIT. So I didn't. ROFL

Mini Eifel Tower!!

Okay, you know how hard it is doing this solo? Very! This is the best it's gunna get. Haha

Hey got that one okay!

Gosh I have always wanted to see the Eifel tower, and this is a PERFECT substitute! YAY!!!

Okay, story time. I have ALWAYS wanted a picture under the Eifil tower with all of the tower in it. The only problem was that I was alone, and there wasn't anyone in that sector of the park. SO I had to come up with a plan B, because I WAS going to get this picture! Haha. I set my backpack on the end of the path so I got a full view of the tower. Then I set my camera wait thingy for 10s (the longest it would go), I would press the button and just SPRINT down the road as fast as I could (which is not very fast :P )Now, the road is about a basketball court's length. I would quick pose and it snapped the picture. Now, I wanted to make sure I got a good one! So I did this several maybe 7 times, in 102 degree weather, and I hate running, it felt like was melting from the outside from the sun, and I looked like a complete idiot because I was running up and down this path like a chicken with no head, BUT I got the picture. YAS!!!!! For the win!!!! Hahahaha

End of story :)

Okay one last story! This is one of those stories where you hate in the moment, but looking back at it later you have to laugh because it is one of those "this is what you get when you travel alone in a foreign country" stories." :D

I call this my 6 Euro Smoothie Disaster

So after walking in the 102 degree sun for over an hour, I was just done. Tired, hungry, thirsty, and spongebob out of watery. I had been wandering around the park the whole time trying to find one food stand that was open so I could get something to eat. After being unsucessful (because apparently the food stands are open only on the weekends) I sat down on the only bench I could find in the park. Now, I kept hearing these announcement for the ONLY restaurant that was open in the park that takes about 20 minutes just to walk across the long way! Only being able to understand a little of the message I thought I knew what restaurant the voice was talking about. So I packed up my stuff and dragged my feet 7 minutes across the park with no shade only to find that I was wrong. So, I went for my very last choice: a sandwich from the vending machine... Which wasn't awful thankfully! And a sprite. Okay, dragging my feet back across the park again to the bench I sat down and ate my mysterious substance with bread. After eating, I mustered just enough energy to try and find a better bench that was more in the shade. Now, 100 steps to my left and around the corner, what do I find.......... You guessed it! The only restaurant that is open in the park!!! -_- really, r u SERIOUS!! Haha. Oh well, I brushed it off and went inside anyway. AC. *cue the heavenly sounds* I thought I could at least get a smoothie because that sounded amazing! Plus if I order a smoothie I can relax on the couch in the AC with the Internet they have so I can talk to my mom (because they weren't picking me up for another 2 hours). 6 Euros. 6 EUROS FOR A SMOOTHIE! You have got to be kidding me. That is like 7 U.S. Dollars! Oh well, I'll do it anyway, it's probably really good, and i can only have wifi if I order something, I'll do it. 

Okay, and you think we were already going downhill. LOL just wait... ;)

 So the smoothie was nasty, chunks of ice with mango syrup, mmmkay. 7 dollar ice and mango syrup in a fancy glass! Well at least I have AC and the Internet! I go up to the counter and ask for the password..... . . The Internet is broken. FINE! Okay! Fine! I will just sit here, sip my mango syrup and read my boring book for College English. Nope- that is okay. Really!

HAHAHA this is probably one of my favorite story from my trip because it is soooo funny looking back on it! I mean, you can't go to a foreign country solo without a crazy story to tell! Ahhh, I can still laugh about this one. ROFL