la casserole et les bateaux mouches

 friday may 18.
Today our professor took everyone out to dinner at a fondue restaurant called la casserole.We had to order our food ahead of time so I ordered the raclette. What I was handed was a plate of cheese with a couple of slices of semi cooked ham. At first I was a little confused but then they handed me a potato and a frying pan and I realized that I was supposed to cook it myself on the little stove on the table. It was actually really fun!

 For dessert they gave us chocolate crepes, one thing I just can't get enough of in Paris. Without even thinking about it I started drawing with my fork in the leftover chocolate on my plate. (It says Paris, Je t'aime.) I am such a child.

Afterwards a group of us took a boat cruise around Paris, called the Bateaux Mouches. We were running late from dinner and there were several metro changes to get there, so we were literally sprinting through the streets in order to make it on time. We made it just in time but I still leaped onto the boat from the dock just for dramatic effect. The weather wasn't bad and the scenery was beautiful, I love seeing Paris lit up at night. But the cruise itself was a little annoying because there was commentary going on the whole time. They translate it into about 6 languages so there was literally never a moment of peace. I would have preferred it if they just played music and gave us a pamphlet to read about what we were seeing on our own, since I had already been to all the sites and knew what they were. I took a few pictures, but they didn't turn out too great since it was so dark, so I just decided to have fun and ended up photo stalking all the cute couples I saw along the Seine.

xoxo Heather