pas le garcon.

tonight was my first friday night in paris in 3 weeks. i forgot how lively this city can be. we didnt even really DO anything...just wandered. mal and maddy were hanging out with mal's mom and stuff, so chris and i got together and wandered the bastille/marais area. oh, but first we got a delicious, nutritious meal at mcdo (with a 1 euro student discount! WOOT education!)

we were at bastille and figured we could just walk down to the marais cuz we were there last night and saw a few fun bars. but we're dumb and we walked about a mile in the wrong direction. ah, no loss...we found a metro and made our way back. we mostly just wandered aimlessly, taking pictures and admiring christmas things (the ice skating rink is set up outside hotel de ville!).

our friend gretchen told us to meet her at this bar called 3 w. i hear chris on the phone go, "it's a lesbian bar?" haha. i'll admit, i was a little weirded out, but i'll try anything once, so we headed over there (after gretchen came to find us cuz we're like two lost puppies). we get to the door and the very lesbian woman at the woman looks at the three of us, and goes, "pas le garcon." uh oh. so we tell gretchen to just text us when she leaves and we split.

we ended up meeting up with our other friends from school and pop into this sports bar that's filled with smoke and too many people. amalia had heard of a cool hookah bar on the street, so we went down that way. i don't smoke, but i like hanging out, so i went along. it looked empty and sketchy outside, but we figured that since we had 5 of us, we could make it fun. well, it turns out there were bunches of people in the back, and it was a great place with a fun, dark, indian/natury type atmosphere. alas, chris and i wanted to catch the metro home, so we had to leave like 20 minutes after we got there.

we got on the metro and, lo and behold, who do we see but miss alice bald from the dorms freshman year! it was a crazy coincidence that we chose that train at that hour on that precise car, especially because we had JUST been talking about alice not but a few hours earlier. small freaking world.

now i'm home in a quiet house. crap, how did it get to be 1:40 am? tomorrow will be the first day to sleep in in a long while. wonderful.