Paris in the Summer

Who knew the 4th could be so much fun!

On the 4th my friends and I went out to lunch. We found a mexican restaurant!!! It was no Salty Iguana or Aubelos but it was good for French-Mexican. After my first burrito in

almost a month, we did a little bit of shopping on our way to get the best ice cream in the world - Berthillon ice cream. I got peach and fresh strawberry (which co

st 50 cents more BUT was soooo worth it! It had real strawberries in it!) This ice cream is TO DIE FOR!! After this the small group split up because

a lot of people wanted to go home and nap. I am really over the whole sleeping thing - I mean how many times do you get to live in Paris for a summer!? So Steph and I went and did some more shopping! P.S. Right now is the biggest sale in Paris. Each July every store gets rid of all their merchandise from the year at dirt cheap prices! It's the best!! The government made it official that it's from June 25th - July 28th. I

t's crazy!

Around 8 we met up for dinner - where did we go? Did somebody saaaaaay McDonalds!? (that was sung to the McDo's tune...) Anyways we went to the most American place we could think of - McDonalds! Although these McDo's (that's the French nickname) are not at all like American ones. They are classy and pretty chic. We figu

re this is because it is the only way they can get Parisians to eat a hamburger and fries!

After demolishing dinner we went to th

e Seine river with some wine to enjoy the sights - little did we know we'd enjoy the sounds as well! There was a small band of 3 Bob Marley look-a-like guys playing guitar, drums, and singing. We decided to sit across from them and watch and by a couple hours in over 200 people were around watching them! It was great! They sang mostly American tunes like Jack Johnson, James Blunt, Oasis, and of course Bob Marley. Did I mention we did all of this under the lit up and glorious Notre Dame!? After the band got done we went to this little Irish pub in the middle of the Latin Quarter (where all the students are) and they had transformed the whole bar into an American bar!! There was only American music and they had ESPN on the TV and the bartenders where even dressed up like American people! (Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, etc.) It was really fun and they even had "American specials" which was 4 Euro Buds haha - it was definitely fun and we met a lot of French people there who

were nice to talk to and they shockingly are the only French people who apparently love Americans!

While there were no fireworks - we had a pretty fabulous 4th!