Bonjour Paris!

Oh, the last day of London ended up being rather amusing.amazing. First off, I went to Stonehenge! Which was just as cool as I'd hoped it would be. I'm just sad I couldn't get a sunset tour where they let you actually walk up to the stones instead of the set distance away. But that was only because it was the wrong time of year for that, so unfortunately, I have found yet another reason to come back. Darn. The tour came with an audio guide to0, so I got to learn a lot about what they've learned about Stonehenge and it's construction over the years. And since I picked the tour with extra time I was able to walk out to the barrows too. Overall, a very satisfying experience.
As I had a 6 am train to Paris, I figured I'd be going to bed early, no big deal. So imagine my surprise when at 9:30 at night I find myself on the tube heading to a club with about 10 people from my hostel. Still not really sure how I managed to get talked into that, but that's just a whole other story. I kinda figured it might be meant to be, seeing as how most of the group was a large bunch of French guys, some from Paris, and that it was just too fortuitous on the eve of my departure there. The most interesting one in the group though was the British gal who got in full cat costume for the club (really a fairly common thing to do there) especially since she had a whip, a kit of makeup, and quite a personality. She could not stand still if her life depended on it! On the tube she was putting makeup costumes on all the French guys, my favorite one of which was the lightning bolt on the forehead.
Turned out that the club the French guys had found, was actually a pub. A very small pub. And they couldn't seem to tell the difference! Very amusing over all, but our resident cat was slightly less amused and was on her phone like a mad woman finding another club to go to in the area. I had a lot of fun though! Kevin (from Canada) and I made the best of it and just kept trying to piece conversations together with the French guys (I can remember none of their names unfortunately, and they spoke very little English), showing off our worst dance moves imaginable (we had all the French guys discoing with us for awhile), and just overall laughing about the fact that we were in a tiny pub unable to communicate with most our group on the far east side of London. At least some of us found it amusing. I split for the hostel not long after when they decided they would rather take the expense of the tube for one stop rather than walk 5 minutes and they weren't even quite sure where they were going again. Figured that was my sign to head to bed.
I have been in Paris officially for just shy of 24 hours though and it is amazing. Beautiful city! I really like it here so far. When I got off the train it was an absolute downpour. And of course I lost my airport in screening at the train station that very day. So I was running for the hotel when I heard my name and turned around to find Jonette running in the rain too! So we went in, checked into our hotel went outside, and it was the most beautiful blue skies. You would never known the rain we had been in 10 minutes earlier! And the rest of the day continued like that.
We ate some French Onion soup, some of the most delicious french fries I have ever had, and an amazing pizza. Wandered around, found Notre Dame and the Louvre (though we didn't go in either yet, but hey, we have two weeks!), got lost, got unlost. It was a lot of fun. We also found a bridge with chain link which had tons of padlocks attached to it with couples names on it. Very cool, though we weren't sure what started it, if anything in particular. It might just be like the shoe tree, something people just cobbled together over time. Some people had obviously just scrounged their bags to see what they could attach. There was even a fork tied on with headphones, twist ties, and key rings. I loved it.
Today I'm going to meet up with Kristi for a short time before she heads to Germany. I'm excited to see her. How cool is it that we are in Paris at the same time, even for so short a period. So until my next adventure, au revoir!