Sadie's Band Gig & Other Thoughts

I have this friend Sadie.  Or Sadra if you prefer.  She worked for Fat Tire this past fall, and now she is working part time for FTBT and also living with a French family as an au pair.  To top it all off, she also is the lead singer in her French parents' rock band.  

So... Sadie's friend and I were allowed to "crash" the party.  Good times to come.  We (and by "we" I mean "I") knew that I would never see this over 40 French crowd again (or if I did it would be a while), so I turned into the crazy dancing blonde American in the corner.  Doing Tina Turner moves.  And maybe some Texas 2-step.  Are you surprised?  Probably not.  I can't wait to crash another party.  

But... enough about me, Sadie was fabulous!!  (I would upload a video, but she'd probably hurt me.)

In other news, the president of Lebanon is in town.  Which means when Sarko went to go meet him at the airport, good ol' Nick had to take his cavalry and French military band with him just to show off.  Which effectively means that the silly French had to shut down the entire city.  Which means that because I was doing my laundry on one side of the Esplanade (in front of Les Invalides), I had to walk 45 mins out of my way just to cross over to the OTHER side of the Esplanade.  And then yesterday the entire city was gridlocked because Sarko was going from point A to point B throughout the day.  Bah.  

Umm... I've already had to throw my body in front of fast moving Parisian traffic several times to save someone on a Segway tour.  

And its finally SPRINGTIME!!  Since we only have summer and Christmas in Houston, this whole spring thing is quite novel to me.  So... here's a good picture of what SPRING means!

The old men playing "Boules" - or lawn bowling.

A cute little boy playing with the wooden boats in the Tuileries.

AND... Leah is coming to Paris.  AND my birthday is coming up.  AND I'm getting sunburnt.