February 18th
Leave for train station at 6:30 am.
Arrive at train station and go to the ticket booth to get Caity’s train ticket because she didn’t get hers at the SNCF boutique beforehand. We went to the ticket desk and they told her that she had to print it off at home because that was the ticket she purchased and she was not able to print it at the train station, but the lady told her that if anything happened she could just pay a fine of 5 euro. Next, she needed to pick up her train ticket for the ride from Rome to Florence. However, you need the card that you bought the ticket with but she had hers stolen a few nights before, she had to return her old ticket and purchase a new one for a later train because our original train had been sold out. Then her other card got declined when she tried to buy a new ticket so I just paid for her, and she paid me back later. Then, we got onto the train just in time. Then when the conductor came around to check our tickets we were on the SNCF part of the train and we were supposed to be on the TGV part of the train, which was on the front. At the next stop he made us get off and switch trains.
3pm finally arrive in NICE: Hotel Helvetique
Walk around for a good hour trying to find the hotel basically because I can’t read a map to save my life. When we got there it was really nice it had a twin and a double bed our own bathroom. That night we went to dinner and afterwards to the opening ceremony of CARNIVAL!
Me being the 5 year old I am I bought a butterfly mask, a lollipop, and a unicorn balloon. It really was a carnival. Ferris wheel and all …. But we didn’t get to ride it.
February 19th
Wake up at 10 am and climb a mountain where there used to be a castle until Louis XIV got jealous and had in knocked down so now it is a park.
Then Dayna and I had lunch at a little caf� on the beach with cocktails and all!
Next we went back to the hotel picked up Caity and went to the Flower Parade.
Then we went shopping at H&M and all the little stores in the streets of Nice. And that night Dayna and I went to the “light show” which wasn’t really a light show at all it was really just a repeat to the opening ceremony with some extra floats added in. So we skipped that and headed off to a Hookah bar aka the Hubbly Bubbly.
February 20th
Dayna and I decided to head to Monaco for the day. We spent about an hour trying to find the bus and when we finally did find it we paid our 1 euro and rode the bus 1 hour to Monte Carlo. By the time we got there it was pouring rain and Dayna in her leather jacket couldn’t get to wet and since Monaco is like France and nothing is open on Sunday we sprinted through the rain to the Monte Carlo Casino. We each spent 10 euros to press a button for a good hour.
Then we headed back to Nice and found Caity and went to dinner and out to the one crazy bar in Nice Wayne’s World.
Coming Next Rome
Location: Nice, France
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