This weekend

This weekend was probably the best so far! Remember how I said that I feel like I haven't gone out in a while? Well I sure did make up for it this weekend! I slept probably 6 hours in total, that can only indicate that I did some serious partying....
On friday I wanted to go all out, but as it usually happens when you want to go all out, I didn't. I don't understand how when you want to stay up all night and get "crazy" (a.k.a super drunk haha) it doesn't happen, but when you say "I'll go for just one drink" you end up doing more than one drink. I went to Rue Mouffetard( its a pretty awesome street that gets pretty busy during the weekend, filled with a young crowd) with two girls from my french course who are also au pairs. The problem was that since we pretty much got there by 10pm it was impossible to find a table in a bar (the downside of bars in Paris is that they're quite small so you have to be there really early if you want to get a table) so we decided to go to this cafe, where there was tables outside (very Parisian), to drink some wine. It was actually a good time, we got to talk about our families, the kids we look after, boys etc. Then one of my friends had to leave to catch the last metro and the other girl and I went to go look for something to eat (I have the biggest cravings after I drink, its so weird! I just need to eat something after drinking) and I got a crepe with cheese,ham and mushrooms....YUM.
I then went to go see another friend and stayed up until 4 am, slept for an hour and then got the metro to head back home. I wanted to go to bed when I came back home but I was going to meet the guy I was seeing (I said "was" because we "broke" up on monday. I have to say break up in " " because it really wasn't a serious relationship lol) for breakfast. We walked around for a bit and then we found this really cute restaurant that serves brunches and breakfasts only which is located in Rue Mouffetard. I would tell you the name, but I forgot the name! However, I plan on going another time and hopefully I won't forget what its called. I loved that place, it made you feel like you were in the french countryside, it was so quaint. Okay, thats enough with my obsession with this restaurant...

I then went back home and I think I took a quick nap, I don't know for how long though..it felt like it was very long but I think it was more like a power nap. Later on in the evening I met up with some friends because I had gotten invited to my first ever french Apero at this guys house (the guy I met in Lille). I was so nervous at first, I thought it would be awkward because I didn't know anybody else but the host and thankfully he told me I could invite some of my friends and that helped with the awkwardness. We finally got to his place quite early actually, 8:30 and we started drinking and having small appetizers. Kudos to him by the way, we weren't expecting that much food but there was a lot! Plus he got small pizzas, chips, small rolls of ham with cream cheese, small pieces of bread with some kind of meat, cucumbers etc. I'm sure in America we would have gotten chips, coke, and pizza from Dominoes lol.
It really wasn't awkward at all because his friends were so nice and they asked us a lot of questions and of course alcohol helped everybody feel a bit more at ease haha. What turned out to be a small reunion of 10 people ended up being a get together of almost 20 people! At midnight we headed to this bar called "Financier" in Montparnasse (thank God we drove there because it was all the way to the other side of Paris!) and ended staying there until 5 am dancing. It was a lot of fun.
We then we all headed back to the house (the guy I met from Lille) and talked a for an hour so before going to bed( oh and ate some pasta this guy made haha, I guess I'm not the only one who has cravings after drinking). Nine of us ended up sleeping over which was pretty funny because there wasn't enough room for everybody haha. I slept with one of my girl friend in the pull out couch, then 3 other people slept sitting down in the couch with their legs stretched on the bed I was sleeping in; another friend slept on the floor and then there was 4 people in a double bed! Don't ya love sleepovers?

Sunday, well it was recovery day for me!  So that's it for my weekend, which I'm really happy with. We got to party and meet new people, french people!