Getting to Paris + best day ever

Well we are in our very petite hostel in Paris now. Made it without to much difficulty. Our flight, I think it was 10 hours the first one, then a couple of hours stop in Zurich and a quick one over to Paris. It all went rather incredibly smoothly, yet i can't quite grasp what has happened with time. What happened in theory or on paper is all relatively simple but when I fall asleep intermitadly, outside its going between day and night, getting served breakfast heading into the evening, it all got really confusing. It's just not easy to follow when your up there breaking all the rules of time lines. From what I gather we are about 5 or 6 hrs ahead of where we were in LA making that13 hrs of travel turn into 20 odd, and by the time we got to our hostel after the most crowded train ride i've ever been on it was more than 24 hrs of travel. Somehow I feel the exhaustion as if I had lived through the whole time even though I had pleasant sleep and was fed regularly, my body felt very tired and hungry, it was just confused. Enough talk about the jet lag, or potential jet-lag i'm not sure yet, its too difficult.
Zurich seemed beautiful from what we saw of it. It was quite foggy so that you couldn't see anything much until your on the runway, though up in the clouds there were mountains poking through to join the space usually occupied only by the aircraft, always beautiful. As well we saw a special sunset on the Zurich to Paris leg, one of the beautiful ones that you just don't get at ground level.

We have eaten a little, nothing healthy funnily enough but it still felt better than the US food. Looking forward to exploring the bakeries tommorow, or the Boulangie I think they're called here, my French is ashamedly poor after two years of studying it. It's always depressing once you meet Europeans usually who are so very multi-lingual and you feel incredibly stupid. One of the air Hosts was fluent in 6 languages and he was learning his 7th. Incredible.

Now i must get back to Sunday in LA.
I think I had mentioned that i was going to search for a Bugatti Veyron because LA is the place to find such a beast. I had my research ready, looked at the maps and figured that i could make it their by foot, just might take a while. Well it ended up taking quite a long while, not made any easier by my socks giving me blisters and Alyson came along with me too... I know it couldn't be fun, or at least as fun for her, so she did well not to winge for the majority of the time however when she did let loose it was a biggen.

All worth it though, all so incredibly worth it. Not only was there a Bugatti Veyron, there were actually 2 of them!!!!! Each worth 2million Aussie dollars, each capable of reaching 407km/h a speed which still felt fast enough when we were doing it on our plane, and if we had good enough roads I say we shoud all convert to Veyrons for transport. But these cars were beautiful, very very special piece of engineering and craftmanship. This was not the end, this dealership was a joint venture, it was home to Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley, there were a couple of Ferraris, a Maybach 57S and another of those most brilliant Mercedes-McLaren SLR.
Now this was definately a party, these cars all so special, and a lot of them were just parked outside gathering dust, literally, it was incredible. So this was a special day then obviously...
Well eventually I plucked up the courage and asked the receptionist, they'd been very nice and it was empty because it was a Sunday (and they know not to assume that even a young couple like Aly and I might not have a fortune of some kind or another, in fact all the salesman at Porsche in particular made sure to let us know they were there if we needed anything, its just that rich an area.) I asked if i could open the Lamborghini please. She said it was fine and all the cars should be open other than the Bugatti's!!!!! Well this did it. I went up to Murcielago roadster, popped its little door handle thingy and then, well tried to press the button which i'd assumed would open the door? It's not so easy, then Alyson joined in trying on the other door. Pulling and pressing away trying to figure out this marvellous contraption, not feeling bad in anyway because they couldn't see us and i was excited as all hell to be touching it. Then pop, Alysons door swung up allowing access to the passenger seat. Must say this hurt a little, I'd kinda hoped, assumed/expected I'd get it. But my excitement had made my head a little fuzzy i think. She had to show me how, but then, I closed the door. And then I opened for the first time ever the door to a Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster!!! HEaven. We went crazy and sat inside and I felt the seats hugging me, just like they had in my dreams haha, that sounds really obssessed, but i actually remember driving one in a dream and it was pretty much just like that, holds you very tight for those high speed turns, and everyone knew i was obsessed so i guess its ok.
We went on from there to try the Gallardo, a score, then sat in an Aston DB9, pretended to be royals in the back of the Maybach with our kms of leg room and endless gadgets. Piloted a Bentley Azure, they have a very special interior they do, then a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti; this is unfortunately my least favourite Ferrari but it has an awesome interior and i could pretend it was any with the horse staring at me from the steering wheel. Unfortunately the Merc SLR and the Vanquish S were locked but it was so damn awesome to have free reign around those cars. It was seriously enjoyable, I mean at motor shows they usually only have a small portion of these cars, and they don't let you anywhere near them. Or at the dealerships in Aus they would keep them locked constantly, with good reason of course, they have to sell those things for serious money, thats what made that day such a blissful heavenly day. I think i've said enough, but very good times.

Also can't believe how small the hostel is here, the rooms are so minituare. It's in a pretty good location though, and was the best deal we could get, but we are very lucky in Aus to live so spread out in big houses, it is so much more comfortable. And they can't drive all that big cars.