I have actually been back from Paris for a few weeks now, but after traveling a month straight I finally get to sit down and write a blog again!!

Paris was amazing and I am very thankful I jumped on the opportunity to head overseas and actually get to see a bit of the world. We took over 800 pictures and I thought I would share just a couple so you all can get a very small taste of what it was like. It started off as me, my sister, PMS Delicate, and her sister, but by the end of the week we had 11 more girls join us for the last weekend.

We started off the trip with Blizzard Invitationals (BlizzCon Paris) where I revealed my new pet, the Arch Angel Tyreal from Diablo. I only recently was able to activate him, as I had to wait for the patch to do so. You can bet I logged onto the game and just sat there dancing in Ironforge and rubbing him into the faces of all the passerby’s on the game (who were of course very envious!). I am probably the only person on my server that even has him yet, as it was mostly European players that were at this event - eat your hearts out!!

We also staged some photo’s on the throne they had placed around, and hung out with the SK Girls Counter Strike team, who were all amusing and fun to be with! Check out all the random pics!

After the Blizzard Invitationals, we had all week to tool around and see the city highlights. We hit most of the major tourist spots including the Eiffel Tower, Pantheon, Arc De Triumph, Louvre, Versailles, and Notre Dame.  We were definitely going to get the most from our trip. All the locals were extremely nice and treated us courteously, even as we struggled to communicate with our VERY limited french speaking ability.  Thankfully, we had no major mishaps.

The next weekend was the ESWC final’s. By that time we had the PMS DotA and CS 1.6 Europe team join us as they were competing.  This was when the real fun began! The event was amazing with many of the top teams all around the world competing in many games. The expo itself was very tiny, but the tournament stage and set up was one that really put you in awe.  PC circuits are made up of a healthy mix of mature and young players, and I just like it so much more then console circuits being a bit “mature” myself (age wise, not attitude wise of course!).  I got to hang out with some people I hadn’t seen for years and I had forgotten how much I even missed.  That alone was worth it!

Anyway, my trip was long and exhausting, but an absolutely amazing experience. I am glad I got off my lazy butt to commit to going so that I can have some other memories with me throughout my life, other than gaming alone.  After Paris I flew straight to MLG Orlando then LA for E3 where we worked our booties off.

The not so fun part of all of this is I have literally only been home a couple days, and tomorrow I leave again for another month and a half STRAIGHT! I will be heading off to Comic Con, then Quake Con, then I-34 in England, then the Leizpieg Games Convention in Germany, then the Nvision Lan in San Jose, then straight to PAX!  All I can say to that is OHHH LALA!!!