A Birthday Story

birthday day planning went a little like this: let's go to morocco, no wait we can't leave the country yet... lets go to nice... no wait its really far...lets go to montpelier... no wait there is not a single train leaving after class on friday.. lets stay in a chateau near by... no wait the price of renting a car for 9 people plus gas plus tolls is about the price of a weekend in Paris in a hotel on the Champs Elysees... lets just stay in Clermont, eat, drink, dance and be merry.. done and done

Jan 28
10h-15h homework, study, research, CV writing..
16h only spent 24 euro at carrefour for the preparty at my place
16h30 made guacamole, red beans and corn dip, ground beef, ham, creamy dip thing, and boiled/sauteed chicken wings

20h08 allison and marie show up.. thinking that they must be the last one's here because the party was supposed to start at 8... little do they know that americans being early or on time is the exception, not the rule
20h30 almost everyone else arrives and cheny and i do our ritual "key toss" instead of walking all the way downstairs to let people in
23h parker gets some serious cabin fever and herds us all outside so we can get the party started
23h30 bling bling shots at buddha

24h lisa impresses the bartender with her new french phrase... je voudrais un croissant

00h go to kamil's friend's apt to party.. hand them lisa thru the window... because those kinds of things make sense a midnight

00h-2h dance party with props

2h-4h dancing at le rat pack! so much fun! allison made the city proud in that one moment
4h30 cheny makes me tea, i take 2 nyquil, 3 alieve  and its beddyby time

Jan29 
11h45 awake from a deep nyquil slumber
1h figure out the american title to "le chemin de la liberte".... "the way back home"
16h shop and find a wedding dress shop for cheny!!
18h30 group trip to the movies to see the way back home.... it turned out to be in english, thank goodness.. but at first it was in russian with french subtitles... wht a strange headache i had
20h searched and searched for the restaurant le coulette and ended up in place de la victoire at the giant taverne
20h30 ordered a heaping bowl of fish!!  and a scoop of the best vanilla ice cream ever!
00h shots and drinks at the buddha for my actually bday!

Jan 30
12h30 all the americans meet at le puy de la lune for an amazing lunch, brazilian style..  with a brazilian band and an apple tarte for dessert
16h-20h a large sieste because brazilian food is very heavy

20h-1h hw and other boring things



what a wonderful weekend!!