Saturday mornings are fantastic. I slept in this morning - went to bed late last night so this was a nice change. Got ready for a busy, fun filled day! Michel was in the kitchen making a fruit salad - mangoes, etc. He didn't get back from his reunion/meeting last night until after 2am and he only left because he planned to go to the market this morning at 5am!
I then met up with friends outside Les Halles in Place Pie to go shopping and spend the day wandering around the city. Brought her some juice (the water was turned off at her house so she had limited water - a bottle - with which to brush her teeth etc.), so she was extra thirsty. Went to go get a crepe and on our way there we ran into two other girls from the program. They had been goign to get their hair done by "hair cut students". One of their host moms went with them. The guy was going to "be inspired", dye their hair all different colors, cut it crazy, etc. The host mom told the hair cut guy, "No. No. No. You can't do that. They are Americans. They will be sending pictures home to their parents. No. No. No." Hahaha.
So we continued on to the crepe place - a British/French guy - and we all got Nutella crepes. There is this cool crepe grill thing. Anyway, the crepe was so gooey and yummy It was my first crepe since being in France. It was so delicious!!!
The rest of the day was filled with shopping - going into stores which we had no idea what they were like and going into other stores where we were certain we'd find lots of great stuff at really low prices. Had some lunch, continued roaming, got some coffee/espresso (in a tiny plastic cup!), then returned home.
We were eating dinner a little early because of the show downstairs and also because Claudie was going with a friend, Martine, to go see the movie, Avatar. She invited me to go with them, and I accepted! We had a great conversation while we were sitting at the table while it was just her and I (while Michel was down working in the theater with the woman performer). I got offered coffee with dinner - it was like fate was helping me out. I was trying to figure out how to politely go about explaining to her that I drink coffee, I just don't always want it late at night. Thank you fate. I enjoyed my coffee in the mini "tasse de café," mug of coffee.
We went and saw the movie. The theater didn't have ticket windows or tickets like in the US - an actual booth with a circle hole and a little square stamped ticket! The theater had red cushion connected chairs with legit arms on the chair. You could hear the movie reel reset. The commercials ran and then stopped. The screen went black and the lights went on. There was a pause between the ads and there was about a 5 minute pause between the ads and the movies.
The movie was great. I didn't really know what to expect. I knew it was very popular in the US. Claudie thought it was great, she really loved it! It was great to go to the movies with her.
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