One last thing I must mention about our time in Paris...it might go down as one of the funniest/weirdest/grossest experiences that J-Sak and I have been through together...
We were hunkered down in our bunks during our second night in Paris, hoping to get a great night sleep. We had an awesome roommate named Kat who was from London, but was studying in Paris. She was staying at the hostel because she was in the process of looking for a flat to live in. We had some good conversations with her and she was pretty funny and openminded.
Anyways, we had just come from our bed bug experience in Vienna and were constantly on edge and always on the lookout for crawly things. Especially me because I have a dislike for crawlies and will go as far to say that I have a big fear of spiders. It did not help that our room was disgusting and that one could only imagine what lives in the cracks along the floor boards. So, we had just turned off the lights and I am snuggling nicely into my bottom bunk. I usually like to pull the covers up right around face...for optimal warmth and comfort. I then notice a dark blob next to my eye, on the covers. I didn't really think anything of it for a few minutes because I figured it was the way the blanket was crinkled and, in the dark, some folds in the covers are dark and others are light...depending on how the light cascades across the room. I go to moved the covers because the blob sort of makes me uncomfortable and realize it has long, slender legs!! Holy #%!€!!!!!! I ripped off the covers so hard...the bunk bed shook as if there was an 8.9 earthquake! Jeni flipped out and wanted to desperately know why I was flipping out...and Kat just watched and laughed.
"It's a freakin' disgusting bug!" I shout. Jeni is giggling.
"Ewww it is really big," says Jeni.
"Look at its legs!" I point.
Kat graciously and willingly offers to retrieve it for me off my bed. She grabs a cup out of the bathroom to stuff this critter into. She moves in closer towards the fat, centipede looking thing and confirms that it is, in fact, a bug. Great. Sick. Screw this hostel!
"Oh wait'" says Kat. "Know what it is?!"
Jeni and I both stare at her with wide eyes...
"It's a feather!" Kat laughs.
Oh my gawd...relief!! Jeni is laughing pretty hard at this point.
" No wait!" Kat seems like she is taking back her last confirmation about the blob! Oh no!
"It's a fake set of eyelashes!" Kat giggles.
Well, now Jeni is curling up with laughter! And I am so grossed out that there are falsies stuck to my blanket! For how long?! And whose?!
"So glad it's not a bug!" I exclaim.
Jeni relplies, through her wheezes and tears of laughter, "False alarm! Literally!"
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