Ok so it's no secret that Tracey and I are very different people, and there are definitely times that we want to lock eachother in a padded room---with that said, we managed to go ten full days enjoying eachother's company (pretty much) and we have the smiling pics to prove it. The funny thing about travelling with just one other person is that you end up taking a bunch of pics of one another, so those are thrown in here too:
Day #1: Walking around Par-ee.
Night #1 in Paris: drinks at the Piano Vache and a walk home along the river.
Day #2: Versailles. Of course it rained, I was there after all. We rented a boat---Trac and I have a long history of paddleboating together which usually resulting in shouted obscenitie, but since Tracey basically told me I need to be quiet in Paris because I cause scenes, we refrained from a screaming match this time. Then we took some senior pictures by a statue, naturally. (And, yes, I am also wondering what possessed me to wear white jeans to Versailles. Fashion fail. Sorry, Zac.)
Day #3 in Paris: We went to Orsay (no pics allowed) and some other museum that has "orange" in the name and houses the gigantor Monet lilies.
Day #4: Tracey's final and the flight to Athens...not many Kodak moments this day. Clearly.
Day #5 Aegina: Beach day! We were sooo in our element.
Theater of Odeon
Day #6 Acropolis in Athens: This was the day we really cubstyled it out---I'm talking nike shorts and both of us in Mizzou tees (bad choice when these crazy Missourians got superexcited when they saw us). Whatever, it was raining, and we were tourists. Duh.
Night #6: After a day of exploring, we got pretty (as pretty as you can get in a hostel on a humid rainy day) and set out on a mission to see Sex and the City 2 at an outdoor movie theater. While we waited for our movie we stopped by the Olympic stadium (so inspiring!) and the National Gardens (where we poured red wine into coca cola light bottles to sneak it into our movie and where we met our fav character of the trip: the oldest Greek man ever selling popcorn from a cart).
Day 7 Athens: This day was pretty chill, we went to a huge flea market in Thioso and walked all over Athens shopping and eating. There was a street on the map called "Shelley," and Trac insisted that we find it, which we did. We were pretty proud of the great success of the trip at this point, and we were just kind of basking in it.
Back in Paris:
View of Opera Garnier from the top of Gallery Lafayette (basically the Paris version of Harrods), the most beautiful department store ever.
Seriously, what department store looks like this?!?! And yes, I did change my shirt in the fitting room, I was sweating. Judge me.
Day 8 Paris: After the Gallery Lafayette we hit up some markets (our fav pastime, seriously) to get stuff for the lovely homecooked meal I prepared since we were both really sick of eating out.
After a long day of packing up Tracey's room (and more shopping by me) we made our way to the ET for the nighttime sparklefest. This was a really perfect way to cap off the crazy adventure.
Day 10 Heading home: Needless to say, there were no pics captured during the grueling journey back to the Chi (seeing as we had separate flights) which included me carrying on a giant American Apparel bag full of clothes in addition to my backpacker backpack since the suitcase I took back for Trac was overweight while I sprinted to not one, but two flights (connection in Minneapolis---didn't see much Zac, but I'm sure it's lovely) in order to get on them with just minutes to spare. By the time I got home, I was pretty ready to be there.
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