June 9

Saturday, June 9, 2007
This morning got started early enough – 6:30 am, actually! Breakfast at seven and on the road to the Eiffel Tower by 7:30. Paris driving that early on a Saturday was great…especially compared to the last time we were driving through Paris in rush hour!! It was cool to see the Champs d’Elysées with hardly any people on the streets.
The meeting was pretty much standard. Except because Elisa was there she also talked a bit about her exchange and answered a few questions…but she definitely is not a fan of talking in front of others. There is also another Canadian here – she is supposed to be "working" for Mme Lenfant for the next two months!! I asked her to update me on the "work" that she is doing – I have a feeling that she won’t really be doing all that much!!
We ended up leaving Paris around 2:30, which was a really good thing because the airport was a lot further away than I thought it was. A good 45 minutes out of Paris, actually! I felt bad that Fredo drove us all the way out there – I didn’t realize that it really wasn’t in Paris. It was a cute little airport though – so little that we had to wait a while before we could check in and even then the gates weren’t announced until about 2 seconds before boarding. And we got to walk up to the plane too. I’m always a fan of that!
I slept – surprise, surprise – most of the way. The plane has a lot of yellow in it! Easy Jet is all orange and I guess Ryanair is yellow!! We arrived ahead of time, around 8pm, got both of our bags no problem and went to the shuttle to go to the hostel. I decided not to bother booking the shuttle and it was there anyway! I was happy!! Way easy!
And the place here is totally great too…and we are paying only 10 Euros a night. So awesome. We are in this little "House Tent" (#41) that has a floor and two beds in it. It is tiny, but that doesn’t really matter because I don’t really think we’ll be spending all that much time in the tent! At least I hope not…
The camp itself is huge, but there isn’t people everywhere and it is relatively quiet. It is a campground as well as a hostel and there are everything from tents to small cabins to big cabins to houses. It is quite the mix. There is even a pool and a gym – I’ll give updates on those later on after I figure them out tomorrow!
We are nowhere near Venice itself, but there is a shuttle bus with quite regular hours, so I don’t think it’ll be a problem…Venice tomorrow!!
Night
-Allison