Totally Frenched Out

From the blogger formerly known as Samdebretagne

Monday, October 13, 2008

Whew, where is the time going? What a busy weekend - L from "Toutes Directions" came up to Paris Friday and we went straight from the train station to the rhumrhum bar. I unfortunately did not follow my own advice and drank more than 2 rhumrhums. Which meant we got home pretty late Friday night, and ended up getting a slow start on Saturday. We were able to walk around the Rue Mouffetard area a bit though, and then headed on over to the Jardin des plantes.

Saturday night, I'd invited a bunch of people over for a Mexican food. Since my place is so small, I finagled Kendra into letting me hold it chez elle. Yum. I need to make Mexican food more often (or at least my Minnesota-version of Mexicanfood, lol). I also attempted to make mojitos for the first time, with mixed results - some people said they were good, others thought they were too strong. Though now that I think about it, maybe the people who said they were okay were just being polite!

And now I find myself back on the road again - I'm in the Pays de la Loire all week for work (read: creepy Jesus country). Things are still a big mess with my Tunisia trip, but supposedly I will be over there all next week. It was just really unfortunate though, since I had had a lot of things I needed for this week shipped with the Tunisian stuff, and since it's stuck in Tunisian customs, I don't have it for this week. Which means I will probably have to come back here again in November now, but oh well. There are worse things in the world than spending half of one's time in Paris and the other half in the French countryside.

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9 Comments:

Blogger Barbara said...

You party girl :)

Take it easy on the road.
Humm; creepy Jesus country ? I've never been through that region.
It could make for a fascinating write up.

October 13, 2008 at 8:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm here since I saw that you linked to my blog... thanks :)
I was not aware that there was a Jesus Country in France. Good to know, since I'm living in Godless Heathen Land (Grenoble).

October 13, 2008 at 8:51 PM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Hey, just because I thought the mojitos were strong doesn't mean they weren't good. I finished 2, didn't I? :)
Too bad for the Tunisia crap, but I hope your week goes well!

October 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM  
Blogger Jonnifer said...

Sorry we missed you on Friday. It sounds like it was a great time!

Creepy Jesus country - they have that out here? At least they have beautiful chateaux too, which is more than you can say about creepy Jesus country in the US.

October 13, 2008 at 10:44 PM  
Blogger christine said...

Yum, Mojitos!

October 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM  
Blogger Ken Broadhurst said...

Sam, what is this Jesus country thing you are talking about? I know about the Edit de Nantes, which more or less legalized protestantism centuries ago. Are there a lot of fundamentalist protestants over in the Nantes area?

October 14, 2008 at 3:12 PM  
Blogger Starman said...

Creepy Jesus country?? You must tell us more.

October 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM  
Blogger Susan in Lille said...

I am going to try to dig up your email...I think I have it here somewhere!! Can you tell me where the rhumrhum bar is? I am making a visit to Paris next week to pick up some friends and would love to visit it! If you are up for a drink on Sunday or Tuesday evening please let me know!

October 15, 2008 at 8:29 PM  
Blogger ashtanga en cevennes said...

That's funny. I made Mexican food on Monday night, too! Bean burritos... ;)

October 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM  

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