Friday, March 30, 2007

Almost getting arrested in Paris....


So late one night Ray, Rodney, Greg, Anoop, and I decided to get a bite to eat. We walked out of the hotel and crossed the street. As we were walking down the block, a French policeman walked up to us and started saying something that we did not understand. We continued walking, but it seemed as if the policeman was adamant about getting his point across to us. He took out his nightstick and motioned us up against the wall. We had no idea what was going on. He made us turn around and put our hands up against the wall, like we had done something wrong. The policeman asked us what language we spoke, we told him English. That didn't really help us very much. After about 5 minutes of us up against the wall, two undercover policeman came walking down the street holding a man in custody. After a brief talk with the undercovers, the policeman let us go on our way. At that point, we were all so confused, but still hungry. We don't really know what exactly happened to us, but my guess is that someone reported a robbery and the police were looking for a group of 5 guys. Since they saw us, the most likely assumed that we were the culprits. We were lucky that the undercovers found the actual culprit, or we might still be in Paris to this day!!!!

GeoCaching


So, on one of the last days in Paris, a group of us decided to participate in a GeoCaching expedition that Dr. Searson had set up for us. We all got on the train, and headed to....I dont remember where. Dr. Searson described to us what GeoCaching actually is. A famous Parisian artist put up pixelated "Space Aliens" all over different cities in the world, and with a GPS system, we were on the hunt to find them. As soon as we got into the vicinity of one of the "Space Aliens," we were let loose to find it. A group of us decided to walk down a main road. Peter and I looked up at a wall, and saw something fairly odd. We both had the same idea running through our head, "Hey, that looks like one of the aliens from Space Invaders." At the exact same time, Peter and I spoke up to Dr. Searson and asked if we had found it. Dr. Searson delightfully told us that we had found the Space Alien and won the GeoCaching expedition. Here are some photos of what I'm talking about....

I'm an Idiot....

So, unfortunately, I had the mispleasure of forgetting all of my sign-in information to my old blog account. So, i had to make another blog account. And here it is. I am definitely going to remember this info because I don't want this to happen again.