au revoir madame de brioche et tes enfants...

so, more sad goodbyes last week... my dear natasha had to go back to greece and julian left for germany and everyone else from school left too, except a select few. we had going-away celebrations on the pont des arts which is the pedestrian bridge that crosses the seine from the left bank to the louvre. it was actually quite a party! 

i had no idea so many people hung out on this bridge on a friday night! lol

then we walked to a bar near the sorbonne and what do we see in the little plaza area? all these awesome balloons! they spelled out names of songs (we don't know why they were there... maybe some sort of orientation fun). there was "rock me amadeus" and some others too that i can't remember now... i had the german stand in front of "99 luftballons" lol...

way to be a good sport, julian! :) 

then we went to this bar called the mead maker, which had a sea-faring pirate-ish type theme.

it was cool, but we were all kinda tired and so it was a pretty early night.

this is a super-cute pic of natasha and julian and my cheek. :)

last saturday, i was baby-sitting ella and we went to the garde républicaine for their open house. it was pretty neat, actually. most of our time was spent looking at different horsies, ella's favorite. i didn't mind standing here for fifteen minutes bc the gendarme was really cute. hehe. the uniform was really working for me.

we walked alllllll around, saw more horsies, looked at the little museum of uniforms and stuff, ran around with some other kids and then we went to see the motorcyclists do their tricks and listen to the band play. all in all, a very interesting and busy day!

but it wasn't over yet... we walked a little while in my efforts to get ella to fall asleep in her stroller, but then we heard music playing, so we went to investigate! there was an anti-landmine rally being held by handicap international and they had music and exhibits and everything. it was very cool. this bad was pretty good too. so we sat and listened for a few songs and then explored some more.

we heard drums a little ways away and went to check it out. it was this awesome drum group called mulê ketu bringing attention to the rally. i really wanna be one of those drummers! it looked like a lot of fun. very energetic. ella finally started falling asleep in the middle of the drum performance (HOW??? idk... it was LOUD!).

on friday night, leoni (a friend that i met in the bois, see previous post) and i went to this event at le 66 showroom on the champs elysées. it was a party that wove through some stores in what can best be described as a high-class mall. there were "cointreau-politans", a dj, hair and make-up stations, photographers, all sorts of stuff. leoni and i decided to get a little make-over. haha, here are our results below, photo by one of the event photographers. i had a little "faux-hawk", very punk rock, with black cat-eyes and bright pink lips. leoni had the glamazon look going on with the jessica rabbit hair and smokey eyes. it was a fun little girls outing. i was sad that i wasn't feeling 100% and didn't have anywhere more exciting to go to than my bed... oh well.

these last pics are from yesterday at luxembourg garden. it was a chilly october day, but it was sunny with bright blue skies and fluffy clouds, just how i like it.

this is a little statue and mirror pool by the entrance we usually use that somehow i never noticed. it's so pretty and feels like it should be hidden somewhere in a secret garden (like the movie), but it's only 10 steps back from the sidewalk! so very charming.

i did not feel like taking my hair down friday night (sooooo much hairspray!) plus i thought ella might get a kick out of my crazy 'do, so i just slept on it. still looked crazy the 2nd day too! lol.

i kinda liked it actually, with the headband and the shades. very interesting, that's for sure!!!

these are just some extra flowers that nicole (ella's maman) had and gave to me. they are sooo pretty and cheerful! i love flowers, but i am toooo broke to buy any! haha.

so that is all for now. i am a little sniffly and i was worried it was getting worse last night, but i think i will be ok. this is kinda normal for october... eeeeverybody has the sniffles!