Two summers ago the girl scout troop above me went to London and Paris for 10 days total. My mom being one of the leaders who was going brought me with her as the tagalong. The trip consisted of us staying in Pax Lodge, one of the girl scout world centers, and in a seedy hotel in Paris. I loved the trip and now my troop is going to London for 10 days this summer. Here are some accounts and misfortunes of our trip before.
While in london we did some pretty amazing things like going to the London theater, watching the changing of the guard, and loosing a hat in a river. We were constantly getting lost in the subway system and ending up in the wrong place. At one point in the trip we were standing on one the many bridges, eating ice cream, when a huge gust of wind came through and knocked my friend Maureens' hat into the river. Of course we documented its journey until we couldn't see it any more. She wasn't to sad, she had gotten it at the dollar store.
In Paris our misfortunes ranged from one of the girls breaking a nutella jar in my backpack to getting stopped by the police in the subway. One of the girls in the troop was not a happy camper, to say the least, one of the days of the trip and it was her turn to carry the backpack. Everyday we had to buy our food at a small store near where we were staying and they coincidently didn't have plastic jars, no they only glass jars. We packed everything for food in my backpack and we took turns carrying it. Well she got angry and threw the bag on the ground. You know what that glass jar of sticky chocolate did, well it broke into a bunch of price all inside my pack. From then on she was in charge of carrying the bag. The second and biggest misfortune of Paris is when we got stopped by the police. We were staying in section 5 and our tickets for the subway were sections 1-3 which would explain why we could never get back through the gates at the end of the day. Anyway we coming back through on a monday and I guess thats when the police trolls the subway for rule breakers. Well seeing a group of American citizens they came to us like moths go to light. They saw our tickets and told us that either we had to pay an extremely steep fee or get out of the country. Safe to say we were freaked out. Well my mom being my mom had boughten in the city tickets for all the sections and pulled them out and played the stupid American trick on the cops. They bought it, ripped up our old and new tickets and let us go. We would not make that mistake again.
I loved both places especially Maureen punching me every time she say a hot guy and the two band girls embarrassing us by singing in public, the Voldemort song. Though we had many problems I can say it was a great trip and I can't wait to have more problems with the next group.
Sarah:
ReplyDeleteThank you for some colorful, fond, and HILARIOUS memories of your first trip to Europe. You describe some vivid scenes-- like the gust of wind on the bridge, and following the hat's path in the water (!)-- and capture a really playful, tongue-in-cheek tone. I especially like the silly puns: "happy camper" and "tagalong"-- clever!
For future blogs, please make sure to proof for avoidable errors. Otherwise, I look forward to reading more of your perceptive and imaginative responses!