sometimes you've just got to go to the cirque.

[in front of notre dame with reesie's picture.]

well well well. long time no see. 

thought i died, did ya? thought i fell off the face of the earth, did ya?

well news flash: here i am. alive and well. alive and kickin'.

i've been traveling alot lately/finals are coming up/we moved to another host family and their internet sucketh, so blogging hasn't exactly been privileged to be at the top of my to-do list.

and i should be taking a nap right now so i can be rested enough to study for my art history final [running on four hours of sleep here], but for some reason, i want to blog right now. 

here's to the fact that i know i'm gonna regret this in a few hours.

saturday [october 22...don't laugh, i know i'm a month behind, DEAL WITH IT], me and tiff slept in big time. staying up late watching friends can really take it out of ya. plus disneyland. all those rides with no wait eventually caught up with us and we just really wanted to sleep it off. we woke up to the internet still not working. notre dame [our lady, keep up] said she’d show us where the mcdonald’s was by her house so we could use the wifi [pronounced “weefee” over here, and yes, i get a kick out of it everytime] there. oh. gee. thanks. glad my money that i’m paying you to use your internet is going to good use. kidding kidding, it was fine.

so we get to mcdonalds and get on facebook and see that a bunch of our friends are going to the circus. the circus? in paris? ummm YES PLEASE. first off, i have never even been to a circus. i am a circus virgin. second, how perfect is a paris for going for your first time?

needless to say, we were way excited.

how good can it get in one weekend?! we buy tickets immediately and race off home to go get ready. and because we are speedy gonzales’, we had enough time to go shopping first around notre dame.

don't worry, all i got were scarves. well, they're all the same, just one in many colors. quatre euros each, people. 

we met up with our friends going to the circus [kelly, morning, hollie, anna, riley] and took off.

it was so much fun! i really didn't know what to expect, but right at the beginning, all the lights turned off and the music started playing and all the little french kids starting clapping and singing and i died and went to heaven. there were really cool acrobats, lion tamers, jugglers, people balancers [okay, that's not what they're called, but that's what they did. balanced people on other people. like cirque du soleil, i think.], and funny clowns. it was so worth it to go and i'll always remember the circus in paris! plus, i got caramel corn. so yeah, that was definitely a win.

 [outside]

 [tiff can't contain her excitement]

 [don't question this photo. it's just me with my niece's picture. it's natural.]

[i don't know what my deal is in this picture, but i look totally latina or something. it's all that caramel corn.]

and me and tiff would've gotten a picture together, but we were too nervous to ask the usher lady who made us pay her just for showing us to our seats. what a rip-off! 

still amazing though.

probably one of the best weekends i've had in paris.