| It was an early morning and we all had to get
up early despite staying up late at the discoteque. I decided to do
everyone a favor and began an extra room to room “wakie wakie wake
up call.” It was fun hearing the moans, groans, and quick
hang-ups. In fact, it was all fun and games until an unfamiliar
voice on the phone asked who I was. Whoops, too much “wakie wakie”
and I think my calls went beyond the Contiki room range.
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Stopped by Pisa. Couldn't get
by guard to climb Pisa.
During our bus trip, we made a rest stop
where a rude server thought an order for #2 was two orders for
#2. She refused to listen and acted like it was my fault.
Thanks for buying the second lunch, Spiros.
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| Kyle introduced us to the
song "Bloke" while
many of us drank cough medicine right from the bottle. Tried
some "ranchis" at our service stop. |
Kyle gave us a 70s
and 80s music quiz. Dale, Brad, Effi, and Eugene won front
row seats to Monte Carlo. |
| After Kyle's orientation on
France, Steph taught us some French phrases. Dale and Brad
wanted to know how to say "fish sandwich" in French.
Kyle distributed our group pictures.
"The thing to remember about our
hotel: location, location, location." -Kyle
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| At hotel, we bumped into
walls, columns, and each other because the lights were turned
off. |
Kyle had us ready our
passport for Monaco's officials. Steph didn't have his and had
to hide in the restroom. Kyle doesn't want to live very long. |
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As we drove along the curves
of the hills, Kyle played "New
York, New York" for us.
Saw Monaco, a country less
than 2 square kilometers in size. Valerie said something about
finding a man with a yacht.
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| Had dinner of bread,
champagne, wine, a seafood appetizer or salad, pork with mushroom
sauce or salmon with cream or veal in tomato sauce, and chocolate
mousse or apple pie or vanilla and strawberry ice cream.
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| Found restroom
that Kyle recommended. It
was grandiose with lots of sinks, urinals, and toilets.
I looked at the toilet and suspected that Kyle played another joke,
because nothing looked out of place. After pushing this tiny
calculator style button on the toilet, this arm protruded out the
toilet and picked up the toilet seat. Then, like a can opener, it
rotated the seat through its wiping mechanism that left a peach
scented cleaning solution that quickly dried after it was applied.
My jaw fell to the floor as I gaped at this. Like the donkey in Shrek,
“let’s do it again!” I tried holding the seat down to screw it
up in someway, but the thing faithfully did its job again. If only I
had my camera…
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Saw yellow submarine.
Saw the hair pin turn for Super Monaco
Grand Prix.
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| Lost
money at casino.
Only one of us was able to get a group
photo of us "dressed up." Guess who to start
e-mailing?
Asked Kyle for the weather to see his
reaction. He said something about a crystal ball and Mum (see
Kyle's orientation about what not to do).
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