My Amazing Trip to Paris...*cough, cough*... (PART 2)

SO I am at the Eiffel Tower, and immediately see a hotel right off the metro station exit. I decide to check it out. Its nice, and only 90 euro a night instead of 250 euro. (SWEET, go MOM!! thanks for the help!!) well I decide to walk around just a little more just in case there is something that is cheaper. Already, I found a few other hotels that were even cheaper, 74 euro a night, and then 67 euro a night, etc. Unfortunately, everything is FILLED....great. So I decide to wander a little more when I decide to pray. I am scared, lost, and alone. ( I have had my faith tested SO much here in Europe...its UNBELIEVABLE...) anyway, I pray, and I KID YOU NOT the next hotel I happen to spot is the cheapest by far and has only ONE more spot available. It is for 64 euro. SO I stumble in, and explain my situation. It was sort of funny because these french people were super nice, AND the one lady was like 'Are you sure you dont mind that the bathrooms are right next to your room and the shower is on the 5th floor?' and I said, at this point, I dont give a CRAP. As long as I have a place to stay.' lol I really said it almost like that. Anyway, so I book the room and unfortunately, they only have availability for one night. Well its better than on the street right? (oh and in case any of you were already wondering....I wanted to use the internet real bad because I had some useful info on there I could have, for instance a friends brothers phone number who lives in Paris that I forgot to write down before I left Switz. or lists of hostels in the area, etc. BUT I COULDNT FIND AN INTERNET CAFE...after walking ALL that much..)
OK.. so I book the room...get in, and crash on the bed. I am super tired, smelly from walking everywhere, and just tired. but its a room just within walking distance (haha..) from the eiffel tower. (PS. Did I mention I hadnt had anything to eat yet....all day? der....I left super early and I was too caught up in fear to even think of food.)
SO by this time its almost 5pm, and I feel like after I changed, etc that I could do a quick walk to the eiffel tower. So I get ready to go and decide to take my umbrella out of my bag and some other stuff thinking it was just weighing me down....(again..haha..)
As I am walking to the eiffel tower, I am making mental notes of certain landmarks so I can find my way back. One was a hotel, and the other a cafe with a red roof. It is starting to get better...I think....so I am walking through a small park that leads straight to the eiffel tower. (ps. sorry for those of you who are easily offended...just skip down to the second paragraph. I just have to make an observation about the french..thank you.) SO as I am walking in this park, I see a small group of french ladies with their dogs. The dogs are playing, and super nice when all of a sudden the one dog jumps on top of the other one and starts to hump the other dog!!! SO this is nature and all..big deal, but I have heard how sex and french people are just a bad combination because its like water or soap..(well soap might be a bad example..) for them. Its necessary. So what do I hear? Instead of where in America we would try to put a stop to it right away they are like 'Ooo La La!!! haahahahahahaha...' GROSS....weirdos...

OK so now that that is overwith I just had to make that observation. As I am walking through this park (still the first time walking through...I have said it like 3 times huh?) I happened to make eye contact with a guy walking past me for 0.02 seconds when he pulls a 180 degree turn and starts to walk right next to me and try to talk to me, (in french....I dont understand a WORD. not even the numbers..) and he doesnt understand english. I think, GOOD he is just going to go away because we dont understand each other. WRONG....the french people have a rep for just trying to get with any girl...well I found this out the hard way. 3 times in paris. The first was REALLY bad...I didnt mention it in the previous section but as I was looking for a hotel some weirdo guy started to talk me and being a nice american I talked back to him. BAD MISTAKE. He gave me a hug and started to kiss my cheek then there was tounge getting involved GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS!!! I cant tell you how disturbing and gross and dirty it was and how I still feel about that. SO back to my story in the park..this guy keeps following me and trying to take pictures, etc. I let him take one picture of me and then kept trying to say Au Revior like a million times until he got the picture that I wanted him to LEAVE. So finally he leaves and i decide that since there is no line, I am going to walk up the eiffel tower. WHY NOT?? I mean, I only walked a million miles already on no food, DER ME....so I hiked up the eiffel tower, where I got amazing views of paris and bought an awesome souvenier. :D well its starting to sprinkle so I head back for my hotel. HAHA jokes on me...I find the first landmark that I memorized, or so i thought...until I realize that every freakin cafe in FRANCE looks the same. because then I dont recognize anything else. I start to walk around the area up and down the same street and in and out other streets just off of that one trying to find something I recognize. NOTHING. only the way I came from the eiffel tower. SO I even go back that way. NOTHING....partly because I am SUPER tired, and starving. Bad combination. (by the way I do realize that from this point is TOTALLY my own fault..)
It starts to RAIN now. Oh yeah.............i left my freakin umbrella in the hotel with all my other stuff. so its starting to get DARK and raining and I am alone on the streets of paris not knowing WHERE the freak my hotel is. I was seriously walking around for an hour when I decide to cry..haha but not super cry, only a little. nobody would notice. I dont remember the name of my hotel (again my bad...a BIG my bad..) or even the street name. So even if I went to the police, what do I tell them. And if I could at least find a policeman it would be nice. Finally, again..I stop and offer a VERY sincere prayer, asking for guidance and direction to my hotel. Well....after searching for a while later, something told me to keep walking in a certain direction. I didnt remember anything around me but still felt a strong feeling to keep walking. Well after a while later..I spoted what looked like the hotel landmark that I had memorized when I first walked out of my hotel. THANK THE LORD ALMIGHTY for helping me get there. It was dark, I was alone and wet, but I found it from a prayer, I swear it up and down.
SO when I get to my hotel, I call the american family again that I was given the number to earlier and get ahold of the guy. they offered to help me out the next morning to find a hostel, etc. So the next morning I meet up with the wife and they give me breakfast and found a hostel not too far away from the eiffel tower. SWEET...so we went there, and it seemed pretty cool. Only thing is they wouldnt let us go up to the rooms because it was locked so people stuff wouldnt get stolen. Ok, so by the looks of the bottom floor, it seemed pretty legit. SO I booked for the rest of the week. I had 3 more nights to go and it was 74 euro (100 dollars or so). didnt seem too bad. Once I had that booked, I headed out to the eiffel tower again where I saw open top tour buses and wanted to get a pass. It seemed like a way good deal. 2 days for 32 euro and they take you around ALL of paris. Well, I booked it and started to travel around all the major sights. It was really really cool. I will post pictures on here next. Anyway, I couldnt really afford to go in anywhere so I mostly took pictures from the outside. After paying that what eventually ended up being 74 euro after the phone calls to the american family I didnt have much left.

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