Le Cirque d'Hiver (Bourglione)

I would like to preface this e-mail by saying that the past week has been particularly crappy, until yesterday that is. I have ANOTHER kidney infection. On Thursday morning on the way to work I puked in the bus...at 8am during rush hour. Then Friday in the middle of the night I woke up in unbearable pain in my kidney so I had to get an ambulance and go to the hospital. Now, this was a cultural experience because the hospitals in France are not like the ones we have in America. So even though we pay like 5 million dollars for our health care..at least we have nice nurses right? Now i'm taking antibiotics for a week...etc etc.

So in good news,
Last night Jérôme and I went to the Cirque d'Hiver. It is the oldest and most famous circus in France..and probably one of the most famous ones in the world I suspect. Last night was their 150 year anniversary and the opening night of their new show "Étoiles." I had never been to a circus before..and let me tell you..I LOVED it! I didn't want it to end. There were so many cool acts, and the things they did were amazing. There was tigers, horses, flying trapeze, burlesque, juggling, clowns etc..it was very cool needless to say. I would love to go again.


Here are just a couple pictures I took last night..I took like a million more but my internet is being slow so I will make a Facebook album of the rest! ENJOY!


After the show we went to eat at this really good restaurant called "Le Relais de l'Entrecote"..it's one of his favorites...near Saint Germain des Près. They don't have a menu, they always serve the same thing...a l'entrecote (which is a very nice piece of steak) served in this super yummy sauce and fries...and you get a salad as well...all of which is very tasty.

Last week I also went to the Palais de Tokyp, the exhibit sucked a little bit, but we did get to hang out by the Eiffel Tower and guess what....Hello Kitty is visiting! There are these 3 huge sculptures of Hello Kitty and 2 other Sanrio characters on tehTrocadero right now...they're pretty sweet...and they are also fountains, there are streams of water coming from they're little black eyes. ahh I love Paris!