-Today, a senior citizen sat next to me on the metro, and we were wearing the SAME identical skirt! Definitely a vintage win (or maybe I should rethink my wardrobe...at least she wasn't wearing a shirt with Karl Lagerfeld's face on it like I was).
-Saturday, Eric and I got some great cheese and bread (our favorite was fig bread with a little bit of rhubarb confiture and gruyere, but I really liked the cheese covered in herbs too!) and had a picnic in the Tuileries Gardens, which have DANDELIONS and PANSIES now! Also, we waited in a long line of very aggressive French hipsters (two of whom were marginally famous bloggers that I stalk follow regularly) for the Colette birthday Carnival extravaganza, where we hung out trying to hand-toss our way to as much free chocolate and t-shirts as we could. It was weird but really fun!
-Also, on the first sunny day in what feels like months, drinking a bottle of 3euro wine in the Luxembourg Gardens was pretty amazing.
-I got chastised by a monk and chased down the street by a waiter, all in one day! OK, here's what really happened: The whole week was cold and rainy, and after a crepe (or three...) Eric and I walked to Notre Dame, and I got soaked! I was really excited to get back on the train to get home, and started crossing the street even though the red "Don't walk!" man was still lit, and a monk yelled "Attention!" and stuck his arm out at me. But that still counts...The other thing was just that I left my umbrella in the restaurant, but the waiter definitely did chase me halfway down the street to return it!
-The best thing about Belgium, besides of course the beautiful canals and picturesque medieval whatnot, was by far the waffles. I really want to learn how to make them--they are unlike anything I've ever had before, flaky but not like a pastry, sweet but not syrupy. It's so strange how even though it was only an hour and a half away (on the slow train with a transfer, no less), that waffle thing hasn't made the jump over here. The frites were ok in Belgium, but I haven't found anything that surpasses Pommes Frites in New York...yet.
I was feeling guilty for not writing, so now that that's done, I can keep up with my normal pace! Today, I went to the Centre Pompidou (I feel like I'm there every week, and I am definitively OK with that) to see the new Matisse exhibition as well as 2 others that are up now that I hadn't seen yet. The Matisse show was amazing! They showed pairs of his paintings that he was working on at the same time, and it's really incredible to see how absolutely different they are.Then I walked to the Seine and read my book in the sunshine and it was lovely--hard to focus though! I've been asked a lot lately what I like most, or what I'll miss most about Paris (especially since my time here is halfway over!) and it might seem superficial, but I really think it's just how beautiful everything is. Everything is just so deliberate and lovely, and with this sunshine and the whole dandelion/tulip budding thing happening, I have a good feeling about the rest of the spring!
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