It’s Holly

Bonjour, mes amis!

View from Jonathan’s balcony

Here we are, the morning of day 5, trying to remember everything that went on the past two days.

Monday was probably the day I was worried about most on my trip, becaused Jonathan would be at school and Cyril would be at work, and I would be left to wander the streets of Paris by myself. So wrong, I was. Laura, Sandrine and John took me to Centre Pompidou to see the Los Angeles exibit… which is sort of funny, because it took me flying 5200 miles (thanks, John) to see an exibit that’s 1 1/2 hours from my house. Laura has all the museum hookups, since she works at the Louvre, so we went for free. She also managed to sneak us into the exibit next door called Morphosis. Big ups to Laura.

Pompidou Museum

It was around 2:30 before we left the museum, and I was staaaaaaaaaaaaarving. All I had that morning was a couple of cookies and half an orange (again, thanks John). We ate at a place called Chez Marianne. where you choose a few different small things (small salads, dips, finger foods) and eat them with bread. I got fallafel, kefta, eggplant and tuna salad and a couple of cornichons (little pickles). It was really good. Navigating the streets of Paris is hard, bitches… hard! I couldn’t do it alone.

Lunch at Chez Marianne (yes, Marianne was there)

So, today I met Sandrine, John, Sabrina and Fizel. We got dinner delivered from a place called Hollywood Canteen (go figure). And then we slept.

l-r : John, Sabrina, Jonathan, Cyril

Tuesday, nothing much happened. Christopher was set to fly in to Charles de Gaulle today, so we basically just waited for him to get here. With the “riots” going on and half of the metro stations not working, it took him 4 hours to get here. He is here though, safe and sound. Jonathan and I went grocery shopping in the morning after he got back from class. I always want to get a ton of stuff at the grocery store, but in the back of my mind I’m remembering the fact that we also have to walk up 6 flights of stairs to get to his apartment door. It helps with shopping light.

Jonathan made dope ass sandwiches for lunch. We used the infamous Pain aux Lardons. Basically, it was tuna, cheese, ham, and love. It was the best sandwich ever.

The infamous Bacon Bread

We washed it down with Pepsi Max.

Cappucino flavored Pepsi. Yes, you heard right. It’s the shit, son.

For dinner, Cyril brought home some lamb curry. Apparently, Nestle isn’t just for chocolate. For dessert, I made my “look at me, it looks like I can really cook” strawberries in balsamic vinegar and black pepper with mascarpone cheese whipped cream.

Mmm mmm, bitches.

Cyril also made a home made from scratch lemon tart, but we kinda ate it all before I could get a picture. It was super good, though.

Day 5 begins (at 11AM). Today I’m off to lunch with Jonathan, Chris and Laura. Then Chris and I are going to take advantage of Laura and go to the Louvre. More to come…