short week in Paris

After my Strasbourg trip, I was definitely still under the weather. I was coughing and stuffy, but I really wanted to rest up for my parents visit to Europe that weekend. I did some research on classes for my next semester at Michigan. Monday I just completely relaxed. After class Tuesday, I went to CEA to take care of some housekeeping stuff and I went shopping at the BHV after. I found a button down, a t shirt and a sweater - all on sale. The French dept.stores are huge and intimidating but it was fun to walk around in there for a while. After I got home, I met up with my friends on the lawn in front of the Eiffel Tower. It was a gorgeous day and we sat, drank wine, ate foie gras and bread and cheese, and basked in the glory of Paris. We watched a pickup soccer game too and one of my friends who plays on college joined in. He borrowed my gym shoes and had a tough time sliding around on the grass. Tuesday night, I went out to dinner with my roommate Justin, his mom, and his sister. They were staying at a great rented apartment about ten minutes from our place. I was still sick so I went to bed early that night. Wednesday, april fool's day. In france, its called le poisson d'avril (april fish) and the little kids go around secretly putting fish stickers on peoples backs. I had class until 2, then went back and did Laundry and homework. That night, I went to dinner with 3 of my girl friends. We went to a really cool restaurant at Pont Neuf but I was a little disappointed with my food. One of the first times I didn't love it! We hung out at my apt for a while after that, and I packed and left for London the next day! I'll write abiout London in the next post