Escargot!?

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  Our friends from Fairfield visited this weekend.  We had fun!  We did the usual touristy things with our friends and showed them around.  We got crepes, of course, for lunch and dessert and a baguette for dinner!

Danielle and I went to our friend Olivier's apartment on Friday night.  There were a bunch of his French friends there and some kids from our program as well.  It was a lot of fun!  The French are so so sweet.  I think we'll be hanging out with them again this week before we leave for Ireland! Can't believe this is our last week of class before winter break.  Time needs to stop flying by!

Saturday morning, Danielle and I walked around by her house and looked in a few shops and got a really good/cheap pretzel from our favorite bakery, PAUL.  It's funny that the only PAUL we found with the cheapest macaroons is over by school.  The other PAUL's jacked up their prices for some reason!  At least we're close to the good one :D  We met up with Matt and Nico and headed over to the Eiffel Tower after they toured the Louvre.

Saturday night we all went to a restaurant called Chartier that Olivier recommended.  It was so reasonable and really good.  I tried escargot for the first time!!  Definitely will be ordering it again!  It was delicious!  After dinner, Danielle and I walked around outside to see the Louvre at night and to watch the Eiffel Tower sparkle!  The sights and sounds of Paris will never get old.

We ended up stopping in at a bar called The Hideout to meet a friend from our program and her other friends from France.  It was so crowded and hot in the bar, but it was still a good time.  Then I finally headed home after a long day...

Today was a calm day.  Just hung around.  I had to go grocery shopping since I didn't go last week and I went to mass.  Basically just relaxed all day since I was tired from being out all weekend!

Also, irrelevant to France.  I was accepted to intern at a laboratory in California this summer called SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SNAL) and it is affiliated with Stanford University!  My mentor is a man who works in the Particle Physics and Astrophysics Directorate.  Hopefully this has something to do with math.  As long as it does, I will be accepting it and spending 10 weeks in California this summer.  I couldn't be happier.  This will look really good on my resume since it is through Stanford and the US Department of Energy.  I am blessed.

La vie est belle <3