~screaming in Notre Dame "wheres Quasi Modo" (hahahaha spelling?)   

 

~saying "it's ugly" when I first saw the Effiel tower

 

~listening to Mrs. Zumack laugh at the rooster making noise in their dinning room at midnight.

 

~eating dinner by the river next to Notre Dame and having some French guys ask me to go on a boat ride even though I didn't know they were asking me to go on a boat ride till later when Martha told me what they said (how's that for a "run-on" sentance)

 

~flying into Brussels

 

~eating french bread and jam every morning

 

~taking a picture of my shadow on a 2000 year old wall

 

~trying to figure out what time it was every day for two weeks! 22:22 !?!

 

~stealing from a small town in Germany and proudly hanging our loot in our cars in America. Melanie rhymes with felony....Jeanne said that like two weeks ago. That is like so not even funny anymore.  

 

~spending a half an hour or more trying to find the door out of the Louve

 

~rolling my eyes at the Mona Lisa and all the crazy people taking pictures of the painting and turning around and taking a picture of the painting on the wall opposite the Mona Lisa

 

~staying up till 4 am in Germany with Joanna gossiping about our friends who were back in America. "It's not gossiping if theres ocean between you"  (<--maybe we shouldn't even be JV leaders)

 

~escaping the house of the crazy bilingual(spelling?) missionaries(who were moving back to America and taking every piece of plastic that they owned with them to the startes) by taking a walk with Martha around thier small French town, looking at a French graveyard and expecting some person to pop out of a door singing the song from the beginning of Beauty and the Beast

 

~taking a picture of some old guy eating a sandwich by a fountain in Lille. He looked like Gepetto(totally made up that spelling)from Pinoccio

 

~learning to make fondu in a kitchen in Germany that was so awesome even Thom from Queer Eye would approve of the decorating

 

~laughing at oursevles for being stupid girls as Lydia put on make up, Joanna fixed her hair, and I brushed my teeth as we drove through mountains in Germany.

 

~going through extra security which Joanna did not have to go through because I had 5 bottles of dirt for Matt. Jeanne is the dirt gone?  

~laughing in the Zumacks dining room the last night Marthas friends from Vegas were there. I don't even remember what we laughed about. I also don't know why anyone would want to live in Vegas.

 

~escaping the French police and joining others on a quest for Chopin and Morrisons graves

 

~eating lunch by a castle in England even though my foot hurt so much that day I wanted to take down any person who said "ello" "Cheers" to me.

 

~laughing at the class of Jr High boys who talked like the kids in Willy Wonka (the first one) as the got Candy from a candy (like they did in the first movie) in whatever country we were in that day "The candy man can because he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good"

 

~never knowing what country we were in

 

Post-Europe

 

~telling my orthodontist "Um I lost my retainer on a plane at a airport in Brussels in Belgium when I spent two weeks in Europe" and seeing the response on the orthodontists assistants face

 

~responding "We took a hover boat over the English channel to Dover" when people ask me how we got to England

 

"that's soo special"