Monaco Grand Prix, Partying in Nice

Yesterday was NUTS!!!!!!!! Ans and I went to Monaco, a small country that is only one major city and is sortof in France but still it's own country. SO awesome. It was really fancy there and sooooo crazy. Monaco is run by the Prince of Monaco and no one there pays tax or something crazy like that?!! We went there to check out the Monaco Grand Prix, the Prince's Car Museum and the area in and around the Monte Carlo Casino. It was REALLY cool, but at the same time soooo weird to be there. Eventually Ans and I had a long chat while looking over the harbour of thousands of million dollar yachts, and after seeing our 30th Ferrari of the day... the 15 year old in me is SO excited about the fast cars and expensive boats and so on... but the (almost) 25 year old in me is totally disgusted by the over-extravagance, the greed, the fact that some people have SO much, while other people can have so little. Very strange indeed. So yes, Monaco was cool to visit, but it was (and I'm not over-emphasizing), actually MORE extravagant and insane than Hollywood. Soooooo crazy.

Anyway we got back to Nice in the evening and partied hard. It was Friday night and we had an awwwesssome time. Chillin' at the hostel, meeting lots of cool new people, and then going down to the beach to hang out and out to a bar called the Blue Whale (which closed at 4am) for some awesome live music. It was crazy and nuts and super fun. I looooooooove it here in Nice. The weather today is rainy so we are hittin' up some internet instead of running around like usual. Good times.


My Waterloo buddies


Jen, our roomate from Florida State University


Monaco pit crews


Porsche Grand Prix race we saw!!!!!!!!!


Crrraazy Yachts


Some car hit a divider so they had to pause the race while people cleared it off!!


Sweeeeeeeeeet Porsches


Haha, there are rules about what you can't wear near the Prince's Castle


View from the top of the hill


Me chillin'


Guards


Super random Octopus statue


Nice street in Monaco


And another super random statue. This time, a bear


Siiiiiiiiiiiiick old school 1950's Lamborghini


Awesome Bugatti


Bugatti


Super awesome Ferrari


Sweeeeeeeeeeet


I got to touch a Lamborghini emblem!!!!!!!!!


Crazy car from 1907


Ferrari again


Sweeeeet


Haha, a square toilet


Lamborghini again


Ferrari driving around, one of the 30 or 40 we saw in Monaco in 1 DAY!!!!!!!


Ans and I workin' it on the boardwalk


Insane super-modely girl taking photos of like 10 Ferraris outside of the Fairmont Monte Carlo


Ans and I in front of some super custom car from Modena, Italy


Niiiiiiiiiiiiice


Niiiiiiiiice


Erin, Jen and Ans


And another few Ferraris


Crazy rules to get into Monte Carlo


Moooore Yachts


Chillin' at the hostel in the evening


Annie et Moi


Haha Annie and I walking to the beach


On the beach


Some random American dude who was also chillin' on the beach


Ans and I bustin' a move


Our "Korean style" photo


Serious for a moment


Haha, best photo of the night


Streets in Vieux Nice (Old Nice) to the Bars and Clubs


Nice random German dude who was taking his friend on his bachelor party


Band at the bar


Rockin' out


Annie falling into the bed that keeps breaking


Sweeeeeeeet car in the parking lot


Our hostel is so proud of it's ONE star, haha