Palais and Party

Since I needed to get in as much "Aubrey time" as I possibly could before she left France, I tagged along with her and her friend from Lyon as they went and viewed the Opera house. I was completely blown away by the amount of detail that each wall, tower, staircase, and ceiling had in that place. One room, the ballroom I suppose, was so ornate and gold and breathtaking, we quickly concluded that it topped the Chateau de Versailles easily. As we walked around and viewed the costumes on display and drooled over the ornate rooms and sweeping staircases, we discovered the ballet exhibit they had to the side of it all. Even though I had to quit dancing, Aubrey and her friend (the ballerinas), were just as much in heaven as I was. Aubrey and I even tried copying the dance of a man and woman projected on the wall, It all kind of went south when Aubrey tried lifting her leg up to my neck and was like, "Nope! Not happenin!" She came over to me limping and we shared laughs over our old lady injuries now.

After that we went to lunch with the Soeurs and then went and picked up children. Zabrina took a nice nap (jealous!) before we went out to the fan zone that night and then off to a boat party on the Seine. The game was between Spain and Croatia and the group we met up with were definitely all Spanish fans. Soooooo Zabrina and I were automatically cheering on the Spanish too :) We watched the game with Jordan, Luz, Abbey, Kike, Margo, Linnea, and Emily. Unfortunately, the Spanish lost. The fan zone, however, was quite nice since it wasn't packed shoulder-to-shoulder with crazy drunks. Yes there were drunks, but there were just less of them!

We followed Luz on over to an awesome free boat party for the Fete de la Musique night and met up with Carter, some other chick with big hair who I didn't fancy, and Anna. Since Aubrey never came out to party, I was on duty as wingman to talk about Aubrey and to relay the happenings. Let's just say that Aubrey's hot Paris fling got a million times hotter that night with his freakishly crazy awesome dance moves, hilarious hilarious hilarious personality, and the sudden workout on the quai-side pull up bars. Oh my goodness, am I in love too? Hahahahahahaha jk. But ya it was a super fun night of dancing like a crazy person on the Seine and having the Louvre, the Grand Palais, and Musee d'Orsay lit up in our view.

After all the sweating and dancing, we had a little jam session on the dock with a random group of kilt-wearing musicians who came and performed "Up all night to get Lucky" and thus commenced Carter's upside-down, side twist, oblique workouts on the pull-up bar. With still a ton of energy left in store, we walked down to St Michel and got some crepes at 1:30 and then headed for home, only to arrive at 4 am. Needless to say, I was EXHAUSTED the next day with the kids. Zabrina was gone to the Louvre all day and I was looking forward to my celebration dinner that night with the fam. :) But that's a whole different post.