What's more American than BBQ ribs, potato skins, Oreos and Bud while watching the biggest NFL game of the year and judging the newest commercials? Not much when it's Super Bowl MONDAY in France! We decided to record the game and watch it last night to avoid waking up at 1:30am for kickoff - Mark tried waking up the night (or morning) before at 3:00am to tune into the Michigan v. Indiana game, but that ended in a recording too. It's pretty easy to avoid the outcome of the game when you live where football = soccer, but with the electricity fail in the Superdome, we were worried we'd have to Google the outcome anyway!
How was the food? Tasted pretty American! I even had to ask for travers de porc from the butcher. I said it ALL wrong, but through some repetition and sign language, I got what I needed. I guess the trick is to NOT say any ends of words, as it is pronounced trav-air de po-rh! It's counted as a point for me in my book!
It took a lot of power for my I'm from the midwest; I've hardly ever seen seashells; Oh my gosh, look at all these shells!!! self to not pick up all of these! I do believe I will be coming home with quite the collection though!
A few things that happened this weekend worth telling:
a) We ordered Chinese food in French... I'm not sure either of us thought we'd ever do that.
b) We bought our first car! It's pretty funny that neither of us had ever bought a car - we were just too loyal to our Nance and Civic. It wasn't as difficult as we thought it could have been. The salesman spoke little English, but he did explain that he had a friend who spoke English. So where was the friend? After leaving, doing a little more shopping, and returning, they let us test drive the car we were interested in... without anyone from the dealership! All they needed was my Texas driver's license and the keys were ours! We probably could have driven away except that we were test driving on fumes. After we got back, the salesman asked, "You talk to my friend in English?" We replied, "Oui" and he responded, "Ok, come." So we got in the car and he drove us to a local carwash where his friend was working - and he knew English. We asked the normal questions about the car and learned they don't bargain much in France and supposedly cars are completely scrapped when they get in an accident. After being offered a few cigarettes and kindly refusing, we got back in the car and told him we would buy it. We pick it up on Monday! Now for the insurance...
c) We stopped by a local movie theater hoping one of the shows would be in English - no luck! I guess we will stick to buying or renting off iTunes.
d) We enjoyed a fantastic Sunday dinner at Mickey D's. Neither of us would ever eat there if we were home, but I think we were both craving some "normalcy" and it hit the spot!
Only one more night on borrowed beds! I should just be thankful we got one - but tomorrow morning can't come soon enough!
I'm waiting for a box from my mom to be delivered from le poste - the truck keeps driving by slowwwlllyy... if only I knew how to get their attention. Maybe if I run after the van they will stop?!
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