I'm such a cheater at this haha

Hi again! I'm back to tell you about this past weekend, and other various pieces of information you may or may not find interesting.

Last Thursday evening, after a long day in the jewelry studio, eating pita bakes and doria cookies with Evy, I booked it to the train station to hop on a bus to the French Riviera. Thanks to my wonderful roommates, I didn't even have to carry my bag all the way there! It was splendid. After watching 3 DVDs and making too many bathroom stops, we arrived in Nice at approximately 1 AM. We went to our budget hotel room to find 3 sets of bunk beds. It kind of looked like a hospital room with all the white and light blue, but the six of us managed to live in the smallest room on the planet for our three days in France.

On Friday morning, we woke up early and went to find breakfast. I am proud to say that we attended the same restaurant everyday and I love crepes. And French hot chocolate. We made our way to Monaco to see the Monte Carlo Casino and all the fancy yachts. I even found my future house. If you haven't noticed, I seem to have a lot of those :) We grabbed lunch so G and Claire could eat a huge pot of Mussels. Rach and I stuck with tiramisu. After roaming the streets of Monaco, we headed back to Nice to check out the pebble beach. We watched the sun set and turned in early so we could enjoy Cannes the next day.

While in Cannes, we saw the red carpet for the famous film festival and enjoyed the beach. We went out for lunch and Rachel ordered a huge platter of oysters...what a trooper. We found a cute flea market and browsed until it was time to head home for carnavale. Once we got home, we covered our faces in way too much make up and headed for the parade. If you're reading this and have access to my facebook, you should pause and go look at pictures. The floats and lights during this parade were amazing- even more impressive than the ones we saw at Viareggio. The kids, and adults, all buy bags upon bags of confetti and thousands of cans of silly string and just have wars with eachother all night. So, naturally, we bought a couple cans of silly string and proceeded to cover eachother in different colors of stringy goop. It was hilarious, to say the least. G has decided to come up with next years theme, so hopefully we will be back again haha When we got back to our room, our floor was covered in confetti that got caught in our hair and clothes. Priceless.

Sunday wasn't too exciting, we always forget that everything in Europe is closed on Sundays. So trying to plan on shopping on Sundays never seems to work out for us. Because everything was closed, we hiked to the Henri Matisse museum and saw the city of Nice on accident...it took over an hour to walk there. But it was worth it and on our way to the bus to go home, I had Subway :) Just so you know, subway in France is for sure not the same as America. If you want yellow peppers, you won't get them there.

A few things I forgot to mention, that may or may not make you laugh:

1. I almost ordered tripe when I was in Rome...and no, I didn't know that tripe was cow stomach.
2. I drink an unneccesary amount of espresso. It's going to become a problem.
3. I broke two of the lamps in my room already.
4. I thought I was good at bargaining until I got a bunch of Italian men in trouble when I bought my first purse at the market...I still got it for my price...but man it was embarassing.
5. I want a badass leather jacket like Rach.
6. My roommates and I like to buy eat-my-feelings-pastries.
7. Every person that I Skype with complains about the lack of light in my apartment. Now that I think about it, my apartment does lack light.
8. The woman who lives underneath us always gets mad when Claire smokes out the window.
9. I love the kebap guys next door, they know us personally and let us take adventures through the storage room on the bottom floor of our apartment so we can try to find the magical door that leads to the place where our clothes disappear when we drop them from the closeline.
10. We call the small grocery store across the street "conrad's" instead of "conads" because it reminds of Conrad from Weeds.

Enough of that for now, hope this was worth your while :)

Pace, Love and Kebap,

Kim