SO today marks the first day of vacation for the kids. (For me, it's basically one week of travel time and one week of 24-hour work days....) Even though it is Saturday and it's my day off, I agreed to take my 13 year old with me to the mall to go shopping and meet up with my friends. It was really fun! Not only are my friends crazy, but they are naturally hilarious so Julie had a really good time. Definitely scored some major "cool" points in the tweenage department. I even got asked to be the chaperone to see the latest Maze Runner movie for her and her friends. I'm so cool.
We hunted for socks and gloves through Beaugrenelle, Paris' newest mall. Ending up in H&M (as always) we got what we were looking for. Then somehow we found ourselves taking laps around the Marks and Spencer grocery store. It's an English store with amazing food and the one place in France that you can sit and listen to people speaking English with killer accents. Paradise, no? Julie and I decided that it is the English equivalent of Target since FRANCE IS LAME AND DOESN'T HAVE TARGET. *Fuming*
Any how.... We did more food shopping than clothes shopping today, and it was great! I love that store. It even had almond milk. I was basically doing cartwheels through the aisles because I was so happy. Tears were on the verge of being spilled! I have never eaten so much dairy in my life than I have in these two months. My intestines cry some days. (Don't worry, no further details on that matter).... So in celebration, I bought some delicious sounding cereal and a carton of almond milk and am looking forward to waking up and eating a fat bowl of cereal before church! Agh I'm just so happy. Easy to please!
A few laps later around the store and having found zero pumpkin related items, we walked out with cereals, almond milk, lunch sandwiches, the best flipping key lime yogurt on the face of this earth, discounted chocolate caramel krispy bites, and future plans to return. Weekly.
Then a quick stop over at the miniature Lady Liberty which is surrounded by built-in workout equipment and an attempt at doing a pull-up rounded off our adventures. On the way to the metro, however, Julie and I found a Starbucks and, since Pumpkin Spice is Julie's favorite thing on earth, she stopped to get a PSLatte and pretended to be an American ordering her drink and giving the name Moaning Myrtle to the confused barista. It was hilarious. He didn't get the Harry Potter reference and wrote "Moly" on her cup. Good times with a 13 year old :) Look, it's Julie and Julia!!!
Fabulous day. And to really top it off, Julie and I came home, made a pumpkin cobbler which I have yet to taste, and sushi for dinner! Yasssssss. I'm a happy camper today. I even attempted to watch the Rugby World Cup with the family but, after cringing at every play, I decided to come upstairs and blog. They gave me this nifty face paint stick but I put the French flag sideways on my face. They told me to just tilt my head hahahaha It's exhausting having fun...
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