Missed another day yesterday, but I have a good excuse. I ended up getting some sort of stomach bug on Saturday night. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that instead of spending my second Saturday night in France out celebrating a friend's birthday, I spent it "cleansing my system." Not fun. So I spent most of yesterday sleeping and trying to figure out what might be safe for me to eat, which was made a bit more difficult by the fact that basically NOTHING is open on Sundays in France. I thought it was just because people wanted the day off, but apparently it's actually illegal for stores to be open on Sundays unless they have specific permission (i.e. are in a tourist area). Who knew? I did manage to find one little mom-and-pop store that was open and miraculously had applesauce, which was perfect. Although this little bug better move along soon--I'm in France and REFUSE to stay on an applesauce diet!
I did rally to meet up with some people for dinner last night for said friend's birthday, but since I wasn't really eating, I had to just sit there and watch. Kind of brutal. Especially since the restaurant (on rue Mercière--an awesome little pedestrian-only street with a TON of restaurants) had some sort of puffed pastry escargot thing that I will need to go back and order sometime in the very near future. :)
Off to eat some more applesauce (woo-hoo!) and then to my school to teach from 2-5!
They do something similar to that in PR for some products, you just can't sell them on Sunday's, some weird closing law thing. Alas! Well, get over it quickly, applesauce diet in a land of crepes and amazing sauces and wine is no good.
ReplyDeleteMuch love! And you are making me want to visit you soooo bad!
Paola