New/old dichotomy

Met Anne for lunch in the St Germain de Pres. We cannot stay away from that neighborhood, haha. I was there on Thurs, Fri, and Sat. We walked around for awhile and finally found a cute cafe, where I had the tarte nicoise. What I really wanted was the poulet roti, the other special of the day, but they were out! When we asked the waiter for water he brought it to us in an Absolut bottle, hahah. He joked about how he was gonna get us drunk so he could take us to dinner tonight. What a cutie.

Then we walked and tried to catch up with the Paris Techno Parade. On our way, we ran into an animal rights protest in front of the St Germain Church.

And we quickly began to here techno music, and we knew we'd fond the parade. It's this annual event, kind of like Lovefest in SF I think. Apparently there were like 400,000 people there. Basically different DJs go through the city on different floats, and people dance in the streets and follow them. Some of the floats were like fun happy techno, and some were really hardcore. It started in the 14th, and made its way up through the 7th to the 6th to 5th, and then ends in Bastille. We joined around the 7th, and walked/danced with it for awhile. It was insane! We were definitely too sober for it...if only we'd pregamed. My ass got grabbed! And someone passed out on me, and then his friend carried him away. Later we saw him unconscious on the street with a policeman checking him out. I really hope they took him to the hospital. Oh, and another guy grabbed my wrist and was like "On-y va" (Let's go) and I was like what?? And after a min of me being really confused he realized I like wasn't his friend. Hah.

Right as we were crossing the Seine, nearing the end, out of the corner of my eye I saw Ali! I ran over, and we met up with a bunch of NYU people. What are the chances?? Then we got Berthillon, that amazing ice cream.

Seriously though, it was so bizarre seeing something so modern in Paris. The city is so old, sometimes it feels like it's out of a movie. But then to see like ravers and other hardcorse techno whatevers dancing and moshing in the streets was just the weirdest thing ever.

After a nap, I went over to Maya's to pregame. Me, her, and Tara split a bottle and a half of wine. I'm really getting better at not getting sleepy from wine!

Then we met Anne to go to a Brazilian club that I'd heard was good from a couple people. We got there and it was not what I was expecting AT ALL. But still fun. It was surprisingly light inside, but packed. The music was good--part rap, part ethnic, definitely some Latin influence, and some American oldies thrown it. We had a good time dancing, and the mojitos were legit, but Anne and I wanted to take the last subway home, so we left around 1:30. I can't afford cabs here anymore!! They're so expensive. You have to pay for how far they drive if you call them. And I'm used to splitting cabs with people all the time in NY, and here I'm never going the same direction as anyone. Ugh.

I'll add more photos later when I can steal them from Maya. Going to my cousin's today for a BBQ or something. Also, I had a dream last night that I was searching for post-its forever and finally found them. WTF.