Saturday, June 7, 2008

Day 3- les belle filles

Bonne soir mes amies! Today was our final full day in the city of lights, so Melissa and I made sure to live it up.

We decided to go north to the Puce Marchet, an outdoor/indoor flea market we had heard good things about. First we went to an American-Asian restaurant and Melissa got a "bambino" or hamburger with fries, and I got a weird hot dog/sausage thing. It was a really strange meal, but makes for a great story. Then onward to the market, but inside we found out that not all Parisians are as kind as those we've come in contact with. After being shooed out of a store for not speaking French and Melissa being pushed and called a "motherfucker" by someone who wanted us to buy Lebanese CD's, we hightailed it out of there to find Le Sacre Couer.
Le Sacre Couer is a beautiful white church on top of a hill in Montmartre, which is the red light district of Paris. As we were going to go walk up all the steps we were stopped by a guy who forced us to have bracelets made, told us we were "beautiful" and told me that my bracelet with give me good look with men. He then charged me 10 euro for something that I didn't even want! Melissa's is cool though, it's all rasta colors. Anyways , after being swindled outside of a church and insulted inside a shoe store, we walked up to the basilica a little down on our luck.
The view from Le Sacre Couer is amazing (you can see the whole city!) and the inside of the church is breathtaking as well. We sat around up there and listened to some street performers, but then dragged our tired tushes down the hill in search of the Moulin Rouge. The best part about the Moulin Rouge is that it's right across from a restaurant called "The Buffalo Grille" and you bet I took a picture.
To end our day we went back to the Eiffel Tower and got ice cream (it's so good!), but it started to rain so we decided to go back tomorrow morning and go to the top.
Back in the hotel now, Melissa is taking a nap and I'm just plain distraught over Hillary's concession speech. I cried again during it, and it doesn't help that the French are so pro-Obama that I got worse service than Melissa our first day here after saying who we supported. Don't they all know that Sarkozy is a conservative?
We've been having a blast, and even made a French friend! Last night after coming back from a cute outdoor cafe in Oberkamf we came back to the hotel bar and computer lounge. We really hit it off with the guy who worked the front desk who was also the bartender. 4 free wines later, and we have plans to go out tonight and see the town!

Alright, Tomorrow we head to Brussels for a night and I can't wait! Belgian beer, Belgian fries, Belgian waffles and Belgian chocolate!!!
But as for now, I'm going to go enjoy my last dinner of baquette and brie!

<3 et pomme frites
Tor

ps- the French movie industry is amusingly different then ours! like, for one, they have a new Jean Claude VanDamn movie coming out and the American movie "forgetting sarah marshall" is titled "rien sara, je ne va" over here!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think Europeans like Obama because he's young, hip and has not been villanized for having a vagina by the press every day. Not saying I don't like Obama - I do - but it was sort of horrible hearing the blatent sexism on the news every day.

Anonymous said...

ooo...poor chicken. i totally forgot about the ghetto bracelet swindlers by sacre coeur or i would have warned you. don't let politics ruin your good time, either. i love you! have fun in holland, don't accidentally get married to anybody! <3 and keeses

Bocaccino said...

haha o man... i coulda told you about the bracelet guys too... sorry!!! at least it's a funny story... ish :(