My Pant's

Gosh, only five days since I last updated? What is the world coming to?

There was a serious amount of heat this weekend - looks like summer has finally decided to stay. I mean, it's always possible it'll go again, but the temperature hasn't dipped below 15 degrees in the daytime for a while now, so I'm keeping my hopes up. Saturday it rose to the giddy heights of 27 degrees, so Katherine and I put on our short shorts and retired to the Bois de Boulogne for a wonderful hour of people watching. We saw:

2 guys playing ukuleles

Many topless old guys

A dad racing his son on a tiny tiny scooter

A kid on a bike smoothing back his hair

Many, many fashion mistakes.

Very productive.

After that, I rushed back home to get my tickets for Eddie Izzard, only to find out on my way back (already running late) that I hadn't even needed to go get them. So annoying. Consequently, I missed the first fifteen minutes and nearly wasn't let in to the show, but I looked so upset they let me in! Well, the show was excellent; entirely in French and I understood it all (though his accent is super easy to understand). It was only an hour long, so I only saw 45 minutes, but then Dani and I stood outside for about half an hour to wait for him to leave so we could meet him... and we did! It was so exciting. We got his autograph and a picture with him and then we shook his hand. I also confirmed that he is planning to run for London Mayor in 2020, which is pretty cool!

After that, Katherine came and met us and we hung out by a fountain in Pigalle and did some more people watching. Seriously, Paris is the place to go for such activities. We saw some tiny hipster kids that were super unnerving - how were they so small and yet so hipster?

Le prochain jour, Dani and I decided to go for an amble around gay Paree; our default activity on the weekend. I hate museums (as I have the attention span of a flea) and there is almost nothing else to do in Paris besides walk around or shop. Since neither of us are particularly inclined towards spending money at the moment, we walked around.

Currently, we are eschewing the metro as our default mode of intermediary transport in favour of the bus. As previously mentioned, the weather has picked up somewhat recently, so getting on the stifling metro is not exactly an appealing idea. Buses, on the other hand, are airier and due to Paris's abundance of monuments, tend to take you via at least three well known tourist spots regardless of your starting point and destination. Generally just more appealing. The one I took to go and meet Dani did not disappoint, taking me via the Eiffel Tower, Tour Montparnasse and depositing me at Jardin du Luxembourg, where I met Dani by a guy playing an accordian.

We strolled through the Jardin, through the Latin Quarter, across the river, past the Louvre, past Place des Victoires (where a segment of Paris, Je T'aime is filmed) and then through the 2eme arrondissement, chatting about this and that. It was lovely.

Happy members of the EU.

We also saw many amusing things, a selection of which I have provided for you below.

St. Traffic Cones.

His hoes are super jealous of his balloon

This means 'the postman hasn't come'.

We have seen a lot of hilariously named shops in Paris. Herein follows a list of the ones I can remember:

Gladys (Pet Shop)

Homies (Slightly bohemian Clothes Store)

Homeyz (Ghetto/Pimpin' Furniture Store)

My Pant's (Clothes Store)

I Love My Blender (Stationery?)

Sky Kevin (Clothes)

There are many more. The Asian stores near Dani are particularly forthcoming with excellent names. I shall make a list and put it on my flickr because goddammit, I signed up for it and may as well use it.

In other news, today I discovered this genius and then showed it to the kids who loved it. These kids are gonna be so cool. I even got a video of smallest child dancing to it, which deserves to be immortalised on the internet so I can show him when he's older.