The Triple Crown

Today was my first official Triple Crown! (meaning 3 tours in one day). My last couple of days have been... interesting, and my last few tours have been... less than stellar. I don't know if it was me or the groups, but I knew that it was game time... Go big or go home.

So... Tour #1:
A few days ago I had a Seg die on me... it wasn't pretty but it was ok - Murray saved my life by waiting with the dead Seg while I went on with the rest of the group. Stupid Robocop (each of the Segs have names) has been acting up quite a bit lately. So... I started my 9:30am Seg with Robocop and 3 Polish people who barely spoke English. Halfway through the tour -things were still going good, but when I go to turn off Robocop for lunch - there was 0 battery left. It was only a matter of time. We ate lunch, pushed the Segs through the rest of the Tuileries... and Robocop refused to return to life. Oh well. That means I'm jogging and pushing a dead Seg for the rest of the tour. Thank goodness for caffeine and Dmitry (another guide) who agrees to drag my Seg so I can just run. So I run from the Louve to halfway down the Esplanade - I was pretty impressed with myself... I thought I was way more out of shape than I guess I actually was. Whoop! 1 tour down.

Tour #2:
So tour #2 automatically started out a little chaotic. First, Mike is trying to diassemble all the Segs and fill the tires up, Dmitry is stripping the parts off of one Segway to use on another, and I’m frantically trying to run out the door to pick people up at the tower. Crazy. So I get to the tower, pick up the groups, come back to the shop, and start training. Its then that I realize that the 2 families I was with had booked the Segway tour because they had family members who had a hard time walking. Now... this isn’t necessarily a bad thing – but having a hard time walking also means having a hard time balancing and having a hard time staying on your feet for long periods of time – both of which you need to do in order to ride the Segway. So I was a little worried to say the least. Thankfully – it all turned out for the best, even though that was the slowest tour I’ve ever given (I don’t know if we ever got about 5 miles an hour). I never even had to give my, “So this is what the speed limiter feels like” speech. 2 tours down.

Tour #3:
Well... I start out by falling off my Segway in the middle of MY tour AND night bike #1 AND Kregg’s Segway tour. I was rushing around trying to get a Seg for people to train on, and I backed one up really fast and ended up running into the broken bike pile. It didn’t even have time to spaz out – it literally just went down and took me with it. Those things are HEAVY too! But we recovered and went on (by “we” I mean me). This was by far the best tour of the day – even when the crazy French lady yelled at us for being on the sidewalk (I was ready to throw down with her), it was still pretty great.

So a little tally for the day... Today was my first:
- Triple Crown
- Jogging on a tour
- Falling off a Segway
- Crazy French Person

Top that off with a HORRIBLE farmer’s tan... and you have a wonderful day of tours in Paris.