Travel Back to France

Bonjour! I've safely arrived back in France. I took an overnight train from Luxor to Cario Saturday evening and arrived in Cairo around 7am Sunday. On the train I met some other Americans from Minnesota so we stayed up talking about our travels around Egypt most of the ride. They weren't overly impressed with Egypt as a country either, but we all seemed to agree that the temples and pyramids were impressive and worth the journey. Upon arriving in Cairo I immediately flagged down a taxi to take me to the airport, even though my flight wasn't until 2:45pm. I spent the remainder of the day at the airport waiting for my flight out of that god forsaken country. Waiting at an airport for that long, really wasn't that bad. I grabbed some breakfast, looked around at all the shops, caught up on some reading, had some lunch and then took a nap before my flight. I consider that a rather great day, because I wasn't being starred/glared at by people or hassled by people trying to sell me stuff, all the prices were marked so it didn't require me to haggle, the airport and restaurants were clean and a/c so there weren't bugs crawling everywhere, heat or the smell of pollution and people weren't beating animals, ect (basically all the things I hated about Egypt). When I arrived in Greece, I'd never been so happy to arrive back into a "civilized" country. I had to catch a bus into town to my hostel and when I went to buy the ticket the man pointed at a sign that read "women ride for free today" aaaahhh finally a country that knows how to treat women right! My flight for France left first thing Monday morning so I basically crashed at the hostel and then woke up bright and early to head to the airport. My flight only took me to Paris, so I caught a train to Angouleme. I arrived home at 7pm. I'd been travelling for almost four days so I was pretty spent. A care package from dad was waiting for me when I arrived home and everyone helped me eat all the goodies in it (the girls have requested more cheesecake hersey kisses, dill pickle pringles, teriyaki beef jerky and red vines licorice be sent immediately). The rest of the evening was spent relaxing and catching up with everyone on their travels (we are all just a group of world travelers, some went to the UK, others to Italy, some to the states, some to the Netherlands, others to Spain, ect). I also had to prepare my lesson plans because I taught all day Tuesday. Tuesday I went to classes all day, bought some groceries for the week and relaxed watching Season II of Gossip Girls (which I had illegally downloaded on Limewire before I left) with Pamela. Today I woke up and immediately started cleaning my room, putting all my stuff away, getting a bunch of chores done (addressing postcards, laundry, ect). I figured two days of rest after my three weeks of exhausting travel was enough and I need to start getting things taken care of and getting ready for dad's arrival, which is in a week. Today is Celine's birthday, so we're all going out for cocktails this evening. But her party is actually this weekend in La Rochelle, which is a resort town along the Atlantic Ocean. So I'll be spending the weekend there (we've already booked up a hostel and everything. There's a large group of us going). Ahhh the life of a world traveler. I've haven't even been home a full week and I'm already headed somewhere else. XOXO. LoveYa.