Sunday, October 12, 2008

Big boys' FAO Schwartz

I have realized it has been about a week since I have blogged. Sorry. I was tired. I will try to be a little better about it this week. I will skip Thursday night, because nothing was going on and I fasted all day, so nothing major. Friday I had no class, so I went to the bank and got my REAL EUROPEAN DEBIT CARD. Believe it or not its different. Most places here have the real swipers for credit cards like we have back home. However, some places only have the things for Euro cards. Basically there is a special thing on the front of the card so you only have to insert it 1/3 in and then they hand the whole unit (its WIFI, pretty cool), and you punch in your pin number, and it prints your receipt then and there. One of the few efficient methods of doing a simple process that I have run into in Europe. (I feel like everything just gets done in the most difficult way possible.)
Anyhow, Saturday was awesome. 3 of the 4 Union guys pulled a day trip to Paris to go see the "Salon Mondiale Automibile" or the Paris Auto Show. It was incredible. There were over 500 brands of cars there. No, not 500 cars, 500 BRANDS of cars. It was everything from the new Corvette ZR-1, to the new Ferrari California, to the even newer electric and hydrogen cars. Really interesting stuff. We spent from 10 AM- 7:15 PM there. It was almost from the time it opened to the time it closed. It was so much fun. I felt like I was picking out which toy I wanted from the wall at FAO Schwartz, only the prices ranges from 10,000 euros- 800,000 euros. So exciting. Anyhow, test tomorrow, so that's all I have for tonight. A demain.

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