ahh, it feels good

we arrived in san sebastian yesterday evening. it feels so good here. i took a long hot shower (normally wouldnt be long, but it was nite time so no one else needed to shower and i hadnt had even a warm shower since home... for some reason i cant get the shift key to work on here... no exclaimation marks for me...). anyway, it felt good to get a shower. this place is super clean and the people who work here are extremely friendly. the last nite in paris was aweful. i think i slept two hours. people kept coming in and out of the room (there were twelve beds), people were really loud inside and outside in the courtyard. i wanted to kill the spanish guys in our room - they were laughing hysterically and taking pictures in our room at some obscene hour. i just needed one good nights sleep... and i got that last nite. it felt so warm and cozy in the bed here. it wasand is super nice. anyway... it is raining here, which sucks but it is realy beautiful and we are right on the ocean. there is a small mountain that we will probably go up tomoro, weather permitting. there are also a couple beaches but it is pretty cold out now. i just wish the sun would come out (again, trying to use an exclaimation mark). back to paris though... we went to the eiffel tower one day and it started pouring rain. we ended up under this little peace monument or something with these brazilian guys playing music, along with a handful of other tourists. the brazilian guys offered us beers and they kept playing music and we stayed until the rain died down. it was right in front of the eiffel tower and was pretty fun. the next day we headed back towards the tower and just laid in the grass for a little while. we also went by the latin quarters that night and stopped in a canadian bar to check up on the celtics-cavs game, hahaha. we suck to do such a thing while in paris but we did. watched the second quarter and then wandered down the river. eventually found a metro station and headed to the hostel for our last night in the hellhole. definitely the worst place weve stayed from all the places we stayed last summer. oh well, its done now. loving this place. again, if only we could get some sun.

may stop in the alsace-lorraine area towards the end of the trip on our way back to paris. we can travel six days on our pass and are onyl using five of them. we also dont want to spend a whole five days in paris at the end again.

oh yea, and as haik said, we ordered some royals with cheese (matt, i think you will appreciate this). pulp fiction wins. also, my watch battery died and we didnt know the time for a few days. met some cool people in the crappy hostel and got them to set an alarm so we would make our train yesterday. couldnt find a watch battery in all of paris but got one right when we got here. woo.

okay, gotta get off here. :-)