Paris and Rome

Hello everyone, sorry I havent gotten back to write sooner, but here is an update. First and foremost, we took a flight Saturday from Granada to Madrid, sat in the airport for 7 hours and ended up missing our connecting flight to Paris because we are stupid and didnt know you had to get a stamp on your ticket, although they did not tell us we would have to exit the airport and reenter until it was too late. So we ended up booking a new flight and sleeping at gate D59 in the Madrid airport. Unbelievable.
Sunday was the plane, bus for an hour, check in to the scary hostel with no towels which resulted in no showers for any of us and a frightening bathroom Kathleen refused to use. At least there were no visible bugs, although Kathleen says scabies wouldnt show up for weeks...Then we went to the Louvre which was amazing like I remember, and walked to the Eiffel tower at night when it was lit up alongside the Seine river. It was very cold, but at least no rain at that point. We went up to the top and took in the view, it was fun when the whole tower sparkeled on the hour for a few minutes. We took the metro again, which has been a highly successful means of transportation, and stopped at a restraunt for dinner. I had chicken kabob and baked potatoe with a cream inside that was delicious. We sat there for a while, and went to the hostel at around 1130 to find we had a roommate who was already asleep. We tried to be quiet but its very hard to do when you are washing your hair in the in-room sink because you have no towels and are using wipes to clean your body. She did not like us and the next night we had a new roommate, woops. Monday we went to Notre Dame and climbed to the top which almost killed me and Kathleen with our asthma. We went to the arc de triomphe afterwards and the champs-elyssees. Afterwards we decided we should get some pictures of the eiffel tower in the daylight, so we walked there again. We ended up going to mcdonalds that night since we didnt want to spend too much more money, and sat there for maybe two hours laughing and talking about our adventures in the airport and the scary hostel. We tried to burn as much time as we could there because really, who wants to be in the hostel more than you have to. Like I said, we had a new roommate who was much nicer, from Brasil and didnt speak hardly 5 words of english and no spanish as they speak portugese there. We got a much longer night of sleep which was nice. Tuesday we went to Versaille, it was cold and a little rainy but not too bad. After we viewed the inside, we went to the gardens but at that point it was so cold the rain was like little shards of ice and we couldnt take it. We decided to walk to a small shop for baguettes, a soda and a piece of a tarte because it was the best deal, maybe around 6 euro. Unfortunately it was so small there was no seating, so we took our meal to the train and ate on board. I was concerned we were headed the wrong way but we ended up ok. The lunch was delicious, although we were a bit tired afterwards. I dragged the girls to Monmartre even though they were tired and probably sick of hearing me tell them our next plans, but they really liked it when we got there. We walked up to Sacre Coure and passed a million tourist shops which was perfect since we hadnt bought anything yet and it was our last night. Afterwards we walked down to the moulin rouge to take a picture outside, which happens to be much smaller than you think it will be. The entire street of moulin rouge was sex toy and dvd stores, it was hilarious. We decided to go in one and giggle like 12 year olds. Turns out the upstairs was actually a movie theatre, which just made the whole experience that much more disturbing. Finally, when real customers came inside and we realized they werent tourists snooping around a sex shop we got scared and ran out like idiots, laughing. At the end of the street we found a place to have dinner which had a nice ambiance. I got pasta bologna which just means there is meat in it, and we sat there for over 2 hours before ordering dessert. I got a chocolate cake, two girls got homemade terimasou, claire got a nutella crepe, and megan got the best in my opinion, a chocolate mousse that was to die for. We spent almost 4 hours total in the restraunt and they were so laid back they didnt even bring us the check, we had to ask them for it in the end! We got back to the hostel very late, considering we had to get up early, and saw our new roommate downstairs with friends drinking. We thought nothing of it and went upstairs to get ready for bed. About 10 minutes after we laid down, it was past 1am at this point, our roommate walked in, very drunk, and sat on her suitcases to take off her boots. She crawled clumsily into the top bunk over Claire, and laid there for maybe another 10 minutes before turning her head to vomit. The five of us couldnt have had more startled reactions, we turned on the light and gave her some of our sacred wipies, her vomit in a pile by her head. She said she was fine in broken english and laid back down. We looked at eachother astounded that she would actually be spending the night next to the vomit and tried to get her to lay on her side, but she turned right over when we did that. We turned the lights out and maybe 3 minutes passed before I heard burping and she threw up yet again. Claire decided this would be a good time to move into bed with Liz in case the vomit trailed down the wall near her or her belongings. We tried to convice this girl to get new sheets but she wasnt having it and just passed out in a huge pile of her own vomit. We decided to open both windows even though it was freezing outside, Kathleen said, and I quote, are we about to spend the night in here? I just laughed and got in bed, unsure what our options were. We fell asleep and woke up a few hours later freezing our asses off, it had to be under 30 degrees outside. We left her in bed when we left at 530, hopefully she is still alive but I guess we will never know.We took the plane to Rome, it was much easier this time. We got up at 5am, took the metro to the bus stop, bought our tickets to the airport, fell asleep on the bus for like 10 minutes, and then checked in and waited a bit to board the plane. Not too terribly long. Then I passed out on the plane and probably got an hour and a half of sleep. We saw some amazing white peaked mountains but I have no idea what country we were passing through. Then we bought shuttle bus tickets to the train station for 4 euros there and 4 euros for our return ride. I dont really feel like I am in Rome yet because the weather has been bad and we havent seen anything really yet. Our hostel is beautiful, especially in comparison to the last one! Its a pink room with three beds and a winding staircase to a loft with two other beds. The ceiling is so short upstairs you cant stand fully, the room looks like a dollhouse. But the bathroom, oh the bathroom is so wonderful. I cant even explain. It is clean and nice and the shower was wonderful. I felt like a new person afterwards. Then we wandered out to try and find food and the trevi fountain which is famous, and the supposed best gelato in Italy. Unfortunately it was cold and raining and we walked for a long time trying to find an ATM before we could actually eat, but I have to say I think it was worth it. We ended up going into a pizzeria place that had a sign outside for pizza and a soda for 5 euro, which is really good, and it ended up being handmade delicious pizza. We each bought our own pizza, it was huge. It was not the dominoes personal pizza let me tell you. When we were so full we could barely keep our eyes open, we decided we would do the fountain tomorrow and gelato when it wasnt raining and freezing. Instead we decided to walk to this internet cafe and touch base, then maybe grab a dessert item and hit bed early tonight. We are really exhausted, Im even having a hard time typing right now. I will never take senoras meals and bed and bathroom for granted again. I have spent an obscene amount of money, I swear most of it is food, other than the hostel and airplanes. I cant spend a dime back in Granada, I have to save up what Ive got left and divide it into weekend trips or I wont make it to May haha. Tomorrow we want to do the ruins, including the colesium, roman forum and palatine hill, maybe the fountain and gelato. Friday will be vatican city, including the sistine chapel, st. peters square and basilica and maybe the vatican museums. The gardens were on the original list as well but it is 30 euro for that so we will be looking at trees for free along the way. Saturday is up in the air still, I read February is a carnival month and apparently it starts this Saturday, so we may go to check that out. I guess a lot of sales go on around this time here like in Granada, so we will probably do our shopping then. I bought a tshirt and scarf in Paris, and Id like to find some leather gloves here since Melissa (my roommate from home) got some when she was here and they were beautiful. Ill probably be going to Venice in February for the carnival also, Liz said they do the cool masks there you can buy and Claire said she has seen the venician glass there which I think would be a neat purchase as well. We shall see.