My Trip to Paris

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Logan Garrison ENG 1000 Project 1 A Summer In Europe This summer I took a trip with my family to France and Germany. We went to Paris, Cologne and Berlin. On the trip we visited many tourist sites like the Eifel Tower, countless art museums, and the Berlin wall. We also got to hang out with families that my parents had known and we visited many of the lesser-known cultural sites. The trip started on my birthday of all days and we left the Raleigh Airport heading for the London airport. After six hours of playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on the plane we were finally in Europe. The weather in London was absolutely atrocious at the time and was not what I was expecting at all. When we had left the states it had been sunny and warm and I was in shorts. When we stepped out of the plane in London it was rainy and cold. As we got on the next plane I was becoming very sleepy. Before I knew it I was out like a rock for the last two hour jaunt to the Paris airport. Much like the weather in London, the state of affairs in Paris were very wet, cold, and confusing as we took a train from the airport into downtown Paris to find our hotel. We got off the train two stops earlier and ended up waiting two hours for another train going in the right direction. I slept more on the train and beside me there was a homeless man with a guitar and he played some French songs which were very somber but beautiful. When we finally got to the hotel my parents and sister decided to search for someplace to get food while I took a shower in the hotel room. After the long hours of just sitting somewhere and being sweaty, it was wonderful to move around, stretch, and take a refreshing shower. That night we went to a fancy oyster bar and my sister and I ate at least 20 oysters each, seeing as we had not eaten for about 14 hours, traveling the whole time and such. The oysters had been

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