Michel and I don’t get up until around 1 in the afternoon. Given that we went to bed at 8am (we stayed up talking for another hour or so), I think this was fairly impressive on our part. So, shower/clean-up, and Michel’s mom and step-dad have prepared a full on lunch for us. Start with some shrimp, and sliced bread with pate-de-thon (tuna salad, but way way better) or a tapenade type spread (also very good) – all accompanied with some champagne. Then we move to the dining table, where they have prepared a thinly sliced veal with garlic, and the scariest (in a good way) mashed potatoes ever. I forget what the dish is called, but basically they mash up potatoes, and then melt in tomette (cheese) until the potatoes take on a dough like consistency. Of course, everything tastes phenomenal. After that they bring out 5 different cheeses, and finally dessert (crème caramel). Awesome lunch.
After lunch, mess around for a bit, and then get ready to go out. Michel is going to a dinner party that Roman is hosting, and I have plans to go hang out with Pimous. So, head out by Metro to the Champs Elysee with two goals: top-up my cell phone, and buy some champagne to bring to Pimous’s. Since it’s Sunday, virtually everything is closed, so I have to go to the super touristy store right near the Arc de Triomphe to get alcohol. I’m sure I got ripped off, but whatever… gotta have champagne.
Finally get to Pimous’s metro stop around 8, we stop into a little café for a drink (he runs into a some friends and gets roped into playing for yet another team in an upcoming rugby tournament), and then we stop to pick up dinner before heading back to his place to meet up with his girlfriend (Maia) and her brother (JoJo). Where do we pick up dinner? MacDonalds! And it is better here! In addition to everything on our menu, they also have a bacon-quarterpounder, the choice of two different types of fries, a MacDonaldsized Croque Mounsieur, they serve beer, and have a weekly special that blends a burger with something French. For example, the “Recette Fondue Burger”, which is basically a quarter pounder with a foundue type cheese instead of the regular cheese. Other specials were the “Recette Tartiflette” (burger with a hashed brown and a French cheese stacked in), and the “Recette Raclette” which has Racelette cheese and cornichons stacked in. Of course, I got the Recette Fondue. It was different, but about as bad as you’d expect anything from McDonalds to be. Anyway, get back to Pimous’s place, put a bottle of champagne in the fridge, and start eating our McDonalds and drinking wine.
Around 10ish I head back to Michel’s place (Pimous has to be up early to go out of town), watch the end of a movie with Michel’s mom, and hit the sack by 11.
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