French Riviera: August 1st-3rd
The beautiful Mediterranean Sea
Since it was Switzerland Day, we hit tons of traffic on our way to Nice, making us late for our dinner. It turned out to be another ten hour day on the bus…. UGH!!! On our way we found out about designing our own trip t-shirts which I helped out a lot with so that gave me lots of entertainment! After dinner we walked through the city and headed to a local pub to watch some live music. The band was really good and played lots of oldies. I headed home early because I felt like I was coming down with a cold. The next morning, I was feeling even worse so I decided to sleep in and meet up with everyone later. We met up to have some lunch and then headed to the beach. The water was nice and it was a perfect day for the beach, even if the pebbles made it a little uncomfortable. We headed back to the hotel in the late afternoon to get ready to go to Monaco to see the Monte Carlo Casino. Monaco is the second smallest country in Europe. Prince Albert designed the casinos after he sold the resource part of the land to the French. The casinos were meant to help make money to keep the city going. Therefore, Monaco citizens are not allowed to gamble there and they do not have to pay income taxes. In order to become a citizen of Monaco you must apply and make a large donation. Demi Moore was accepted as a citizen while Michael Jackson was denied! We first headed to the Palace of Prince Rainer and the late Princess Grace Kelly, then off to see the Monte Carlo Casino. I only took a look inside because in order to go all the way in you must pay ten euro and the minimum bets are twenty-five euro, which is about my budget at the Indian casinos in California. So a few of us headed down to the Sun Casino, where I got some water because I was still not feeling too well. We left about an hour later to head home for some sleep. Next stop… FIRENZE!!!
Beach Day!
Monaco
All my girlies!!!
Monte Carlo Casino
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