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There are more pictures to come!! They are still in the Camera.
The details of the trip
Friday-

I keep referring to this trip as being very similar to a college road trip. We had no where to stay and not a clue of how to get where we were going but we still managed to have an excellent time. On Friday afternoon we got on a bus to Nice (2.5 hours) hoping to catch a boat that day to Corsica. When we got there the boat had left 15 minutes before we got there. That wasn’t such a bad thing, if your going to get stuck in a town, try to make it be Nice. It's a good place to be stuck. So figured out that the next boat to leave would be on Saturday at 2 pm, so we started to walk around Nice to find a place to stay for the night. We stumbled upon Hotel Canada (pictured below) it was lacking a few stars if you know what i mean. however, it was perfect for what we needed. we got a 60 euro room. We then proceeded to have a great evening in Nice.

Saturday-
We woke up and roamed around nice until 1 pm then we went and bought ourselves boat tickets for the immaculate boat pictured below...The night in Nice and the fun boat ride were my two personal highlights of the trip. On a side note, standing in lines in France is a little different than in the US. We waited in line for our boat ticket and when we got to the front we need a minute to decide if we wanted round trip or one way, while we were deciding the guy behind us in line got helped and that seemed to mean that we had to start over in line. That was a little frustrating for me, so eventually, I kinda helped budge our way back into the line so we wouldn’t have to wait the for the whole line again. For details on why I liked the boat so much, read the caption below. It was my first Cruise liner I've ever been on. We arrived in Calvi, and because tourism is out of season a good majority of the city was closed down, but we still managed to see all the closed shops as we walked around in search of where we were going to sleep for the night...the town was so closed down that I almost thought we weren’t going to find dinner. In the name of saving money we ended up buying food at the grocery store. It hadn’t registered in my head that we were buying our dinners, so I ended up buy nutella and cookies...i shoulda been thinking a little more, let's just say that wasn’t the best dinner I’ve ever eaten. We took our groceries back to our two star hotel which was very clean and very nice (pictures coming in about a week) and ate in the room and stayed in there for the night, it was kinda like a slumber party.

Sunday-
Someone said something about the train(pictures coming soon) leaving at 7 am. I had never heard otherwise. Teghan's alarm clock went off at 6 I woke up, took a shower, and went for a walk where i went in a had a coffee...at about 640 i began to wander where the heck everyone was and why there weren’t any people at the train station. I ran back to the hotel where i was locked out of the building and kinda began to think that we werent going to make that train. After throwing enough rocks, and my pen at our window and realizing how ineffective that is(damn movies) i began yelling Drew's name trying to get his attention to come let me in the front door. I woke everyone up but my roommates, eventually the manager came down and let me in he seemed mad, but it was all in French and in that situation I'm glad I couldn’t tell what he was saying. Anyway, we ended up catching the train at 7:50 it was about a 5 hour train ride, which the rocking got old and it was a little difficult to sleep on the train. The scenery was fantastic though, I’ll show you when the pictures get developed. After we arrived in Ajaccio, we were kinda tired and began looking for where we would stay for the night, it kinda sucked looking for a hotel in that town because there are too many hills. Eventually we gave up and decided that we wouldn’t stay in Ajaccio and that we could just catch the 7 pm boat ride out back to Marseille. that gave us like 7 hours to kill in a Ajaccio, a town with not too many open stores on a Sunday. We still managed to find things to do before our long cruise ride back to Marseille. After walking around for the day we bought our tickets and lots of groceries for the 12 cruise ride home. On the boat we had our own cabin with four bunked beds. The weather was bad so there was quite a bit of rocking which sucked until we laid down to sleep, then the rocking becomes nice...the boat left Ajaccio at 7 pm and docked in Marseille at 7 am. We woke up at 730 and realized no one took the time to wake us up. We got off the boat and went and found a subway that took us to a bus station that took us back to Aix...I didn’t realize that Marseille was as big a city as it is...It's got over a million residents!! Anyway, the bus ride home was as normal as could be expected but I'm pretty sure my cell phone is still on the bus.
the end

Calvi is the small town we arrived in on the island of Corsica

Nice is Nice (what a stupid joke they like around here)

Nice again

Ajaccio is the capital of Corisca, it's a town of about 60,000 people making it the largest in Corsica. We travelled there by train from Calvi.

This is a picture of Alecia, Jesse, and Drew on a jungle gym in Nice...this is at the top of a moutain where we went to take pictures of during sun set...I'd never played on a jungle gym maid of ropes before...it was really cool.

Alecia, Drew, and Teghan...As you can see there might have been some alchol consumed before this picture was taken.

This is the room we resided in while in Nice...This was the "presidental suite" of the glamerous HOTEL CANADA, it was the largest room in the place...we still have no idea why they were called hotel canada..there were no canadian flags there, and nothing to do with canada. We do know that the room pictured here is the room they royalty and people of great fame sleep in when they stay at hotel canda (right)

Teghan, Alecia, and Drew with Nice and the sunset in the background.

This is the awesome cruise ship we took from Nice to Calvi (corsica) the boat was enormous. It travelled between 30-40 nats./hr. it carried around 300 vehicles, and somewhere around 1000 passengers, it had a couple resuarants, a couple bars, an arcade, a few lounges, and a pool deck....the boat ride was really cool. We were on this boat for about 4 hours...pictures of the other boat are coming soon.

this is Corsica, (Calvi)

The dudes, look at Nice during sunset..
Jesse "Jesse Kensinger" Kensinger