Bastille Day

The best, best, best treat in a long time: we got invited for Bastille day!

We got dressed up, hopped in the car at 6 o’clock and drove off to the Sofitel hotel, where the festivities for the French national holiday would be held. When we arrived, we saw really high society people, impressive cars, lots of security and big, German Sheperds, just the teensiest bit scary (as if!). Although we looked really fancy, we were totally underdressed compared to the others: people were wearing gowns and tuxedos or business suits… it made us feel a bit uneasy (just until after the first glass of champagne, haha!)
We went in and started mingling. After the speeches, we turned around to enter the buffet: It was designed to make you drool like a dog: camembert, brie, chaumes, roquefort, paté, rosette de lyon and other nice salami, pain de campagne, lamb chops, gratin dauphinois, red cabbage and a dessert buffet that would make anyone envious: crème brulée, milles feuilles, chocolat mousse, little tarts with strawberries, éclairs, … . We sat down at a table (after cleaning out the buffet) and started talking to people there, they said to us: “sorry, can’t talk now, have to concentrate on eating”. Haha! I think that’s how everyone felt! After the food, we watched the fireworks outside, talked to some people but mainly gazed at what the others were wearing and giving comments (we were too full to go and dance, haha!).

On Sunday I held a “Heroes” marathon, I watched the whole first season (not that I planned too, it was just too thrilling to stop watching it) and prepared for another week at work.