Today was Macaron Day 2011. Every Pierre herme boutique in Paris (there are seven of them) and certain other pattisieres were giving out free macarons from their collections to anyone who came by. People are encouraged to donate ate the boutiques to the Autour de Williams fund, a charity that funds research into rare diseases and provides support for individuals with Williams-Beuren syndrome.
So as you can imagine, the entire experience was rather orgiastic. I met up with two friends around 11 o'clock and the trusted Elizabeth had physically mapped out our day in the city, strategically planned for maximum efficiency and macaron consumption. We hit up five Pierre herme boutiques before I decided, my bag "loaded" down with 11 macarons and my belly with four, that it was time to head home for a catnap.
here is a sample of what went down on this fated Sunday afternoon:
In other news, over the past two weeks, I...
- turned 21
- and celebrated with my IES friends, high school friends, and the lovely hannah who came all the way from Seattle
- wore a dress without tights for the first time all year and was not cold
- ate too much Vietnamese food
- showed visiting Whitties around Paris
- finally had moules frites in Paris
- enjoyed Tibetan cuisine
- saw Surfer Blood live at the Fleche d'Or
- saw the Chagall exhibit at the National Jewish Museum in the Marais
- saw the Piet Mondrian/De Stijl exhibit at the Pompidou
- had an epiphany about the Beirut song "Nantes," realizing where the dialogue in the middle of the song is taken from ("La Bete humaine")
- attended at a gay bar for the first time
- went to a movie alone for the first time ("Laura")
- read the graphic novel version of Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
- applied every song on my iPod to my life
- played more than one consecutive hour of snake on my cellphone
- got "mugged" by a waitress at the classy Angelina
- took and passed midterms
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