A weekend of hors d'oeuvres and the Hippodrome!

This weekend was a busy one where I was never actually able to sit in front of my computer. I like those weekends where you are never bored enough to go on Facebook for hours doing nothing. This weekend felt particularly busy because I didn't spend one night in my room!

Friday is a busy day in general. I work at the high school from 8am to 5pm and I am exhausted afterwards. Jérôme, Caroline, Jonas and I decided to go and see Hellboy 2 at the ciné...it was good, except I was so tired I fell asleep...I woke up just in time for the end though...ha. After the movie we all headed back to Jérôme's apt. and played a game of Dungeon Twister...this french board game that is addicting...and I won of course! bwa haha. Caroline wasn't too happy about it. We all passed out over at the apt. and on Saturday I spent the morning just cleaning and doing some laundry then I met up with Caroline and John for a fantastic (and cheap) American lunch...SUBWAY...gotta love Subway, at least I do. After our little lunch date I left straight for Sevres and met up with Jérôme and his best friend Arnaud. We chatted and had some tea before we ended up being late for Jérôme's mother's birthday dinner. She made a delicious array of hors d'oeuvres for her birthday...I stuffed my face...free food is the best, espescially here. There were little brochettes of cheese, ham and tomato, wraps filled with chevre smoked ham and chives, mini salami pizza rolls etc etc...so basically I was in heaven. We all sat and chatted on the couch and started to play games, but me..being very fatigued as I was FELL ASLEEP AGAIN..on the couch int he middle of everything...c'est fou. Anyway, we all ended up staying over night at his mom's place.

Yesterday, we went to the Longchamps Hippodrome...the very famous horse race track in Paris. This past weekend it was free so we decided to go, since normally we couldn't afford to. The racetrack is in the missle of the 16th arrondissment which is the wealthiest quarter of Paris. We stayed for the races and even won a few that we bet on...we only gambled with about 2 euros a race, but it was fun to just play along. There was also free cotton candy, hot chocolate and fondue...mm yum yum. My camera died so I wasn't able to take any photos unfortunately, but it was a fun experience.

Today I started planning my Christmas vacation and guess where we decided to go?!?!

Barcelona, Spain!

more details on that to come:):):)

à plus