Vendredi

Last night we went to an American - ish bar that was recommended by Leigh's Vanderbilt friends. It was called the Frog and the Princess, and it played humorous American pop classics.
Today we ended up sleeping a lot later than we had planned. We woke up and a group of us (our CEA friends + roommates + Erin and Paige from USC) went to the Supermarche and got supplies worthy for a picnic under the Eiffel tower; a couple baguettes, salami, ham, Brie, goat cheese, blue cheese and champagne. It sprinkled a little bit on us, but

not enough to make us relocate. Next we decided to tackle the Champs élysées, which was super super crowded. And it downpoured. Not a good combination. Also, we experienced 10 year old gypsy girls try to do their tricks on us. They started circling our picnic looking at our cameras/phone, that were visible with their "petitions" in hand.. Erin and Paige started screaming for them to get away and we all joined in (ended up making a scene sort of.. oops) and clutched our belongings as they tried to put the petitions on top of our valuables.
After we went into H&M and Zara where I came across some good finds. It's great that the whole month of July everything is "solde" which means on sale, due to a government mandate.

We met some new friends from CEA and went to a restaurant that one of their friends recommended called "Moose Bar." It was a Canadian bar/restaurant which is different. It was also described on the website as a "sports bar," which you don't find too many of in Paris.

Our friends Erin and Paige left today to move onto Barcelona. Their luck was starting to change! Apparently, someone had seen the little girls do their iphone trick, and had chased them down. Erin and Paige had no idea that someone had done this, but somehow the guy was able to get back one of the phones from the girls and contacted Erin through e-mail. They met him at a synagog and returned the phone.