July 11, 2018
3 countries, under the English Channel, across the Atlantic Ocean and under the Hudson River in a day.
Today we woke up and walked the streets of Paris until we could call an Uber. There were broken windows and over turned motorbikes from the riots the previous night when France won the World Cup Semi Finals. We finally were able to get an uber to the Paris train station. Once we were there, we had to meet Kim and Brian because I had Ben's passport and he was with them. Ian went ahead with Max and Evan. I kept getting hilarious texts from Max telling me that Ian wasn't sure how to answer the security agents about where we were traveling to. We all finally made it through security and prepared to wait to board the train.
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| Streets of Paris |
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| Waiting for the train to London |
Evan had such a hard time with all of the traveling. This is him on the train to London. Once in London, we boarded a train to Gatwick Airport. When we got to the airport we parted ways with Kim, Brian and Joe.
We were all starving and didn't know if there would be restaurants by where we had to board so we found a Witherspoons in the airport and ate there before we went through security to our gate. After we went through security and Max and Ian had their things searched. The security guys at the airport were hilarious. Max had on a Manchester United hat and the security guard joked that he wasn't going to let us through. Ian's guy teased him about the items in his backpack (coffee, sugar, salt, pepper - all items he had taken from the place we were staying in Wales). The guy then teased Ian about going to Wales. These guys were so funny and awesome - a 180 from the jerks who work at TSA in New York City.
We were flying Norwegian Air which was a huge mistake. It took an hour longer than usual to board the flight. When we landed in New York it took forever to get off the plane. The flight attendants were rude and there was even a fight between a passenger and an attendant. It also took our luggage forever to get there.
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| Waiting to board our plane in London |
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| Finally on the plane! |
I had ordered a car to pick us up ahead of time but had a hard time getting my phone to work. Finally we found our car and driver - his name was Allen and he showed us a bit of the City.
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| Grand Central Station |
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| Manhattan |
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| Times Square |
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| New Jersey |
We were staying across the river in New Jersey. We finally made it to our airbnb and it was the best one yet! The beds were comfy and there was a washer and dryer. Yay! We all were exhausted and crashed.
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| The entrance to our airbnb in New Jersey |
