all you need is love

wednesday the stanford program went to see an...interesting...new play: Don Quichotte contre l'Ange Bleu. Don Quixote de la Mancha, and l'Ange Bleu is a cabaret. yeah, it was pretty funny. i didnt understand a lot of it, but basically, don quixote is wandering around and sees an ad for daisy belle, the star of the moulin rose (rouge=red, rose=pink). he has to "save" her from the moulin (which means windmill in france). you see the dancing spectacular (no nips or crack, but everything else) that don quixote crashes, and then he falls in love with her. then they go to this restaurant where the waiters had dogs' heads. it was weird. and the lady who played daisy belle was old. it strange. and she wore super high platform heels the whole time. in the end, don quixote can't keep up the showbiz lifestyle and goes back to la mancha, where he fails at hanging himself and then the cast sings all you need is love.
well, here is the poster:
yeah, that plot summary may be completely wrong. but the definitely did sing all you need is love. it was pretty fabulous.

today for lunch it was falafel in the marais again, but this time it was GROSS. don't go to chez marianne, they put this super weird yucky sauce on it...it's just no good. we wandered around and somehow found ourselves in front of hotel de ville and near the pompidou center. i dont really know how we got there, but i do know i bought a new scarf.

well, i started out the day with ten euro, spent five on falafel, and then five on gelato (sooo good). i walked by this accessory store called six and spent a little time there, and noticed they had a houndstooth scarf for 4,95! couldn't pass it up, really. and i had about 4,98 in change! fabulous! and now i'm wearing the scarf and it's soft and wonderful.

of course, a couple hundred meters down the street there is this stand:
TWO EURO SCARVES
and alice wouldn't lend me any money. i think she told me i had a scarf problem and dragged me away. AUGH.

tonight we had leeks as part of dinner. and we were discussing homonyms.
Quote of the Day:
Francois: "Sometimes the guts leak when we close someone up. We don't like it when that happens."