I feel like my blogs could be so much better but I havent really had the time to make them more detailed. I have had so much fun with Claire-Z and Kellers. Yesterday we said, "Enough with the metro!!!" and decided to walk to Museé Rodin. I LOVED IT THERE! The Rodin museum is so beautiful with gardens filled with Rodins statues, including The Thinker. We carelessly walked through the rose gardens and under the shading trees laughing and talking pictures. Due to my recent photo shoot on the Siene, Im much more willing to take pictures with such miraculous pieces of art. I guess it will be nice someday to look back at pictures of me hanging out in the gardens of the Museé Rodin. After seeing all there was to see at the museum, the three of us walked along a quiet street and found a beautiful church. Mass had already taken place earlier that day. When we walked through the front doors, our bodies were the only ones below the stain glass windows. The ceiling reached to the sky it seemed and it felt as though we had stumbled upon a secret treasure buried in Paris. The echo of each footstep filled every space imagined. For about ten minutes our silences were kept constant due to complete fascination. We were thankful to have found this place.
This morning was the day that the three of us switched hotels. Once we checked out and made our way to the metro we made a plan to meet up at the Picasso Museum around three. Claire and Kellen took the metro to their hotel and I took the metro to my hostel in the Bastille District. I found it just fine and I am happy to say that it is located in a somewhat nice part of town. However... when I walked into the entrance of the hostel I stood behind two couples both waiting to check in. The first couple was angry and impatient. In the second couple, the girl had tears streaming down her face. Each couple upset at a separate situation. This wasnt comforting for me to see. When it was my turn to check in, the hostess was very nice and spoke perfect english. I was thankful because there was a lot for me to know about this place. Like having a separate COMMUNAL room for luggage and having only one key for the room you sleep in (meaning you have to coordinate times to leave and return with your roomate). Since I will only be staying here tonight and tomorrow I decided to go along with this only because this place was the cheapest I found. I think I can suck it up. The girl at the front desk said that I can keep my valuable things behind the desk with her. She gave me a paper with a number on it and told me that I need to have that number with me when Im ready to collect my things or else they keep it. I will not lose that paper. Once I was ready to leave my luggage in the communal room I walked to the door that keeps the luggage area locked. A man, also a guest, walked up to the door at the same time as I did and opened the door for me. He waited for me to go first. Chivalrous. Let me explain what this moment was like through the eyes of Kim. A tall older man telling me to go down a very dark, narrow, spiral staircase with dirty beige brick walls and water dripping from odd places. I was entering a dungeon. The stairs continued longer than I would have liked and once I got to the bottom I walked down a long, very narrow hallway to the chamber where all of the luggage was stored. The man never talked to me or bothered me but if he did happen to have an erge to kill me right then and there it wouldve been a fine and inconspicuous place to do it. After that experience I used the bathroom before I left to find an internet cafe and Im pretty sure I have a disease now that no vaccine could possibly help against. But at least its cheap. To me... that makes everything ok.
Dont worry after this blog. I think all of this is funny and Im sure my things will be fine. Im still having so much fun in Paris and Im happy Claire and Kellen finally have a bit of alone time. They are engaged after all!!!
Tonight we are all going to a museum and then to dinner. Im sure it will be nice because I already miss them.
A lot of you guys have emailed me lately and I really want to get back to you but my time is racking up on my computer now but I just wanted to write one long universal blog so that everyone could read it. Ill try to get to my emails soon but if things come up I might have to get in touch with everyone once Im with Kate and Philip in Africa.
I love you guys more than you know and I miss you!
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