Shopping

Some might say I have a bit of a shopping problem. Well, that's only because they haven't met the guys I traveled with... they enjoy it a lot more than I do. So, we did a lot of shopping, we were in Europe okay! But we definitely found a few hot spots. A few of our favorites: Alibaba in Lucerne-we took a four hour detour just to go back! H&M-the guys just couldn't get enough of it, we went to one in almost every city! All of the cheap stores in front of our hotel in Paris-I couldn't get enough of them, I found so many treasures there! The great store up by the Sacred Heart chapel that sold awesome $600 jackets. For the most part, the stores were pretty similar to those in the States. A few differences I noticed were that the people didn't pester you as much in the U.S. about trying on and buying their stuff, and they had a lot of little stores that sold very limited things. The stores are really little in Europe, even the grocery stores. No shopping malls, no Wal-Marts; its all pretty compact.