PARIS DAY 5.2: Double-Oh-Seven
Jason gets home from class, we bum around for awhile in the room (this is part of our daily routine), I make new plans to get together with Teresa, and finally we grab Lindsey and head back to Les Halles to catch an opening night showing of Casino Royale (Wednesday was opening night here).
We get to the theatre before 6:30 for a 7:00 show, but apparently we had underestimated the French and their love for secret agents, because both theatres for 7:00 AND 8:40 were sold out. We decide to get tickets for the last show of the night, which is at 9:50.
We figure, so what if we've got hours to kill, we're in a mall, right? But, as it happens, we wander around trying to find a satisfactory food place and, finding none (plenty of places, just none we were happy with--they were all out of pasta!) we exit Les Halles and head for an Asian restaurant Jay and Lindsey have been top before.
It was pretty tasty; we got some kind of complimentary fruit juice and shrimp chips with our meal; Lindsey order jasmine tea and chicken with black mushrooms while Jason and I had each had a Tsing Tao beer and a meal that came with an appetizer (we got nems which are eggs rolls, and super tasty), a dish (pork with black mushroom for him and curry chicken for me), a side (noodles or cantonese rice), and dessert (he had lychee in syrup, I had "chinese strawberries," which are actually arbutus berries). Lindsey also got this sunday with mint chocochip ice cream, chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and mint syrup.
So, that was all pretty tasty (surprisingly? Non), and we went back to the movie theatre around 9pm. All the stores were closed by then, and Lindsey headed back to the Fondation and Jason and I went to wait in line around 9:15 with all the excited Frenchies.
This is the point in time where we learn that the time listed on your movie ticket is actually the time the THEATRE OPENS, not when the trailers/movie starts. Awesome. So we wait in a hot, crowded hallway for what seems like an eternity. Eventually, when we did get in, the theatre was pretty nice and the seats were pretty comfortable, but I was so exhausted from...being on my feet all day? that I actually feel asleep during one particularly dramatic chase-and-explody scene toward the beginning of the movie. Didn't miss anything else, though, and let me tell you, Daniel Craig is damn pretty to look it.
The movie was very different from the other Bonds movies I've seen, which I have been heard to complain about being all alike. It was pretty enjoyable, and when I wasn't trying to keep my eyes open (not the fault of the movie) I had a really good time.
We caught the second to last train of the night back to the Fondation and plummeted into bed. Which is why this post is being written Thursday morning.
I'm on my own, as usual, this morning, and then I am meeting Jason at the Paris Center to go with them on some kind of field trip about...the infrastructures of Paris? I don't rightly recall, but it souned interesting. Then, tonight Jay and I are going out for Peking duck in honor of Thanksgiving and because we want to eat damn tasty food. We'll also finally be breaking open the bottle of Bordeauz we bought upon my arrival. =)
Cheers!
A
We get to the theatre before 6:30 for a 7:00 show, but apparently we had underestimated the French and their love for secret agents, because both theatres for 7:00 AND 8:40 were sold out. We decide to get tickets for the last show of the night, which is at 9:50.
We figure, so what if we've got hours to kill, we're in a mall, right? But, as it happens, we wander around trying to find a satisfactory food place and, finding none (plenty of places, just none we were happy with--they were all out of pasta!) we exit Les Halles and head for an Asian restaurant Jay and Lindsey have been top before.
It was pretty tasty; we got some kind of complimentary fruit juice and shrimp chips with our meal; Lindsey order jasmine tea and chicken with black mushrooms while Jason and I had each had a Tsing Tao beer and a meal that came with an appetizer (we got nems which are eggs rolls, and super tasty), a dish (pork with black mushroom for him and curry chicken for me), a side (noodles or cantonese rice), and dessert (he had lychee in syrup, I had "chinese strawberries," which are actually arbutus berries). Lindsey also got this sunday with mint chocochip ice cream, chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and mint syrup.
So, that was all pretty tasty (surprisingly? Non), and we went back to the movie theatre around 9pm. All the stores were closed by then, and Lindsey headed back to the Fondation and Jason and I went to wait in line around 9:15 with all the excited Frenchies.
This is the point in time where we learn that the time listed on your movie ticket is actually the time the THEATRE OPENS, not when the trailers/movie starts. Awesome. So we wait in a hot, crowded hallway for what seems like an eternity. Eventually, when we did get in, the theatre was pretty nice and the seats were pretty comfortable, but I was so exhausted from...being on my feet all day? that I actually feel asleep during one particularly dramatic chase-and-explody scene toward the beginning of the movie. Didn't miss anything else, though, and let me tell you, Daniel Craig is damn pretty to look it.
The movie was very different from the other Bonds movies I've seen, which I have been heard to complain about being all alike. It was pretty enjoyable, and when I wasn't trying to keep my eyes open (not the fault of the movie) I had a really good time.
We caught the second to last train of the night back to the Fondation and plummeted into bed. Which is why this post is being written Thursday morning.
I'm on my own, as usual, this morning, and then I am meeting Jason at the Paris Center to go with them on some kind of field trip about...the infrastructures of Paris? I don't rightly recall, but it souned interesting. Then, tonight Jay and I are going out for Peking duck in honor of Thanksgiving and because we want to eat damn tasty food. We'll also finally be breaking open the bottle of Bordeauz we bought upon my arrival. =)
Cheers!
A
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