It’s Holly

Wednesday started early (early by French standard) at 11AM with lunch at Tete a Toto, across the street from Jonathan’s apartment.

Chris and Laura

Me and Jonathan

I had the Canard Confit avec pommes l’ail - duck with potatoes, as recommended by Laura. Laura and Jonathan had the Gavroche salad, and Chris had a salad with smoked salmon on top. Apparently, there’s a neighborhood cat that comes into the restaurant and sits on a random chair. It just wanders around.

Canard Confit

There was the cutest little boy sitting across from us, he kept dropping food on the ground.

That’s the boy. And that’s my arm.

I was ridiculously stuffed after eating almost half of my food, and then dessert comes. It was all so pretty! I couldn’t resist. Chris had the chocolate mousse, Laura and something with raspberries and cream, and I had the peach and pear parfait. C’est magnifique! Jonathan was wiggity wack and just had un café, because he was gonna eat all of ours anyway.

Dessert, bitches.

Laura, being the cool woman that she is, got us into the Louvre for free, where Chris and I wandered for hours. I took lots of pictures of the Islamic art so I can import the pictures into Photoshop and jack the patterns for backgrounds.

I heart Islamic art patterns

After wandering the Louvre for a few hours, Chris went back to the apartment and I joined Laura and Sandrine to go to FNAC to see Raul Midòn play a FREE show. Yes, bitches, free! What’s better than seeing an awesome performance, than seeing an awesome performance for FREE.

Raul Midòn

Ate Lebanese food for dinner, then I crashed super early. Chris says I snore. I think he’s lying.

Thursday, Chris left for Ireland. He went down to the boulangerie, because I was too lazy, and brought back a baguette, some pain aux chocolate (chocolate filled croissant), and of course, the infamous pain aux lardons.

After breakfast, we took had a little walk around the city, from Nation to Bastille. It’s a nice walk. Not exactly short, but nice.

Bastille

We ended up at a tourist trap café watching people walk by. I had un café crème, which is a cup of espresso served with a pitcher of steamed milk.

un café crème, s’il vous plait.

Chris had a Pschitt, which is a more carbonated version of Sprite. And yes, we giggled and called it a “Shit”.

Awwwwwwww Pschitt!!!

Then Chris was off to Ireland. I took a little nap, and Jonathan, Cyril and Laura came home and we watched Lost. I don’t knwo what it is about watching Lost in a foreign country, but it’s so much more suspenseful. Damn that was a good episode. We made dinner (gnocchi with pesto and lardon, lemon pasta, and Cyril’s famous lemon tart), and we crashed.

So, day 6 begins… I’ve had a cappucino and a dinner roll from last night. We leave for Amsterdam tonight, so don’t expect me to blog this weekend. I will take copious notes and hope I don’t forget anything cool. See you Monday.