No, everybody scoots here!

So today is Pentecost Monday, it's a national holiday so no one is at work and apparently there were like 8 national holidays this month so people have long weekends and go on trips or spend their days at the parks. I went to the park yesterday to look around and it was so crowded that I couldn't believe it. I've seriously never seen so many people. Every inch of grass was covered with people and it was sooo hot. Today both the parents worked from home so I came down and took the kids to the park in the morning and then came home for lunch, now we're watching a Turtle Story.

Friday was my first time picking the kids up from school and even though I thought I could handle it, I waited for L to get home from school so she could come with me. The little ones are done at about 4:20 so at 4:10 L comes to the door with two razor scooters. And I just look at her and she says we are going to take them to the school to go get the kids. Ummm we are?

I am 23 years old, the last time I rode a razor scooter I was scooting through the halls of AOII. L tells me that it's really common for everyone to ride on these scooters and I did not believe her. But I didn't have the heart to say no, so she and I scootered to pick up the other kids. I almost died. But I did it!

We got to school on time, got the kids and everything went well, but I just can't stop laughing about what I probably looked like.

Friday night after dinner the parents and the girls and I watched one of their favorite shows called "secret story" and it was entirely in French so I only got the gist of it but here is what I have so far. It's a reality show with a big house with a bunch of cameras and every person has a secret and each person has to discover the other people's secret without talking about it. For example: one girl in the house has over 100 tattoos that she is hiding, another persons ex girlfriend is in the house, a third had 12 fingers when they were born. But what I've decided is: this show isn't fair. The poor girl with tattoos is going to have a way harder time hiding her tattoos than the guy trying to hide that he was switched at birth. See what I mean? Maybe that was explained more during the show but I missed it.

Also, French television is completely different, this show started at 8:50 and ended at 11ish and there were only like 2 or 3 commercial breaks. Which I thought was cute when the kids complained. I tried to explain American tv to them and it was impossible. Why would shows only be 1 hour? Why would you break for commercials after 5 minutes? It made no sense to them.
But I guess c'est la vie because at the end of "secret story" my brain hurt from trying to listen to all the uninterrupted French.

Then Saturday I met Augusta in the city at a place called WOS, pronounced woss, it's an English speaking bar that they go to all the time and we got to experience Eurovision. Again, another bizarre euro thing I don't understand.
Each country in the EU was competing in an American idol kind of way, singing songs and performing. Then at the end you can call or text to vote for your favorites and let me tell you, people were super into it. The bar had a deal where if you were dressed in your countries colors you got a free drink so people were representing hard. This guy from holland had a giant pink wig on underneath gold and blue for holland colors.

Anyway, I wanted Russia to win, they had these cute little old babushka ladies singing and dancing, it was adorable. They ended up getting 2nd place. By the time i got home I had to take the service entrance back to my room, did I mention I live at the top of 105 stairs? :)

The attached picture is one from the balcony :)