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I have been horrible about keeping up with this blog lately. I found a good book so all of my (little) free time is now spent reading. How horrible...

Im in Paris and loving it much more than I was expecting to, thats for sure. It really is the city of lights. Okay, I know they call it the city of love but its second name is the city of lights and I think that is much more applicable considering the only love Im seeing is a distgusting amount of PDA (public display of affection)...but when that term is used its never in the good 'aww how cute' but 'eww get a room' kind of way. So everything is lit up and beautiful.

I never realized how HUGE paris is. It really is a very large city and not walkable like other cities Ive been to. I actually have to use the Metro...how annoying. But I like the metro...you always meet interesting people and go exactly where you want to be, which is nice.

Rewind with me for a moment to the most amazing day of my entire trip so far. It was a crisp, cold day in Zurich, Switzerland. I had just spent the night before enjoying a few adult beverages (okay, more than a few) and spent the morning taking a long, hot shower, hanging around in my towel (who doesnt love that), reading a good book and just taking it easy. I packed my luggage and was preparing to move on to a new host when I received a call from my current host (he was at his girlfriends place so we hadnt seen him all day) saying that it looked like a good enough day to go for a flight. (He has his pilots license, you see, and access to a number of small, personal planes). Would we like to go for a flight over Zurich? Well I had to think about that for about two milliseconds before almost screaming YES! So Karissa, our new host (who we had meet up with us at the hanger...seems like a great way to first meet a person), our old host and myself took a small plane up into the air and, get ready for this, FLEW OVER AND THROUGH THE FREAKING SWISS ALPS. The sun was setting, there was a layer of clouds below us that looked like the softest of soft, powdered snow that everyone loves to jump in as a kid and there were, of course, the alps. Those gorgeous snow-capped Alps peeking through the clouds. Because it was a nearly windless day, we were able to get incredibly close to the actual mountainsides. AND I got to fly!! How cool is that. I flew of freaking plane through the swiss alps.

no big deal
too bad this place wont let me upload pictures...until next time...

From Zurich to Lucerne, where I met some really cool girls Im going to meet back up with in Amsterdam in a few days, to Paris and having a wonderful time. November 19 is almost here....unbelievable.