Take Your Phone Off The Hook and Disappear For Awhile

After a nice, long nap, we decided to go to a free concert in which a French rock band entertained us with their mediocre music in which every song started out uniquely only to end up being the same song. The people attending the concert were entertaining as well; they were characters to say the least and had rather amusing habits. Eventually, our stomachs starting rumbling and we scidaddled to a dinner of crepes and sandwiches. It was lovely. We then went dancing last night at 9:30. The Parisians dance quite magically. It's a series of head bobbing and shoulder shaking and the crazy ones have almost violent hand motions/seizure-like movements. We got back at 11:00 and were asleep by 11:30. It was much needed rest!

Today, four of us (Kell, Amber, Erika and Laura) went to Disneyland Paris in honor of Amber's birthday. Out of exhaustion and a craving for shopping, I decided not to go. Instead, I spent a magnificent day with Alejandra. She is funny and witty and very easy to talk to. I woke up pretty late (whoops) and after a breakfast of a nutella sandwich and milk, we were off to H&M. Let me tell you, there are so many H&Ms here. It's so exciting. Ale and I were enjoying our day of leisure until the evil check out lady at H&M refused to take my credit card and informed us that we had "one owah" (one hour) to get money and come back. Our search for an ATM was a stressful one in which we repeated "we have one owah" over and over again to ourselves in hushed tones. One was found, and all was well and purchased.

After getting some great things there, we went to Zara and stopped at the supermarket.  For dinner, we randomly picked a place and intended to find this supposedly really good place for creme brulee (recommendation courtesy of google) after a good meal. We ended up just staying at this restaurant for a dinner of steak with pepper sauce, french fries, salad and a dessert of creme brulee. The creme brulee wasn't the best I've had to say the least, but the dinner made up for it. It was delicious and filling and warm and exactly what I needed! In fact, it was so good that we took the rest of the group back for dinner upon their arrival about 3 hours later. They waiters remembered us and were so excited to see us back so soon and with friends. While our waitress (the second time around. The first time waiter loved us and was a sweetheart) was scary (the people here have very little patience with my awkwardness), everyone seemed satisfied. On our way back home, we grabbed some nutella crepes (yum) and retired to the apartment for a night of much needed relaxation and chatting.