Blogging in Secret

So right now I'm at the ground floor of the hotel, it's about 6 in the morning over here, and I have some blogging to do before everyone else comes down for breakfast. Thanks to my handy-dandy voice recorder, I was able to record everything that went down between when I last posted and right now. Which is a fairly hefty amount, considering it was 3 days and I was awake about 75% of the time.

After waking up at 5:30 am, getting dressed, and getting to my gate, I noticed that the entire Saint Louis youth orchestra was on my flight to NYC, because apparently they had a performance in Carnegie Hall during the summer. So I took a deep breath and dealt with them all, and it wasn't so bad if you don't count the fact that they didn't listen to a word the flight attendant said, brought carry-ons that didn't fit, and brought a lot of carry-ons that did fit, so there wasn't any more room on the plane for anyone else's bags after the orchestra had boarded... I was probably just irritated because I was so tired. Which still hasn't got much better.

Upon arriving at the baggage claim in La Guardia, my aunt was there to meet me, and we went out to Coney Island where apparently there's a really cool carnival. And there was a really cool carnival, along with some AMAZING pizza. After chowing down, we checked out the ferris wheel, won a prize at one of those water-shootey-clowney thingies, and went to the beach, where, swim-suitless, we sat on a bench and ate funnel cake. Then, we fought our way throught the New York traffic to the JFK airport, where we literally waited for about 45 minutes to get my bags checked, and I was off to my gate.

Once I had gotten on the airplane, it didn't really get much better. There was a baby in the aisle next to me, and I only got about 2 hours of sleep, which took me through an entire day in Paris. Speaking of which, PARIS!! It was really nice to be in the place I had been preparing for so long to go to, but on the flip side, I was totally exhausted and it was 7:30 in the morning, so the entire day I was the most lethargic I had ever been. That said, we really enjoyed our dinner. The food was amazing, and there was an accordeonist who played for us!

So then we got to the hotel, I got in bed, absolutely collapsed, and woke up 5 hours later for some reason. And I'm still awake. Today should be better than yesterday, but it's likely that I'll still be really tired. I'm not entirely sure where we're going today, but I'll publish it whenever I can! I have my voice recorder handy, so hopefully I'll remember everything. Au revoir!