april 16 cdg
We a redeye from Toronto to Paris last night and I wrote some stuff on my phone along the way but didn't post it because paying €30 for wifi for ~7 hours is against my religion. Anyway, we landed at 12:42pm local ubt because the RER was backed up like a motherfucker, we only just got to our hotel in the 15th. I've never spent much time in the 15th. Most of my various adventures here were in the 4th, 9th, 18th, 19th, and 20th.
At any rate, here's what I wrote on the plane and am backposting to keep my Mikal Bridges-like streak of consistency alive:
I’m writing this on the plane. We are almost on the other side of the Atlantic. There’s a bit of bumpiness at the moment and we think it’s because the pilot didn’t get his strawberry yogurt. We want to tell the flight attendants but, if we do, they'll ask us to explain our science, and we don’t have a chalkboard. You get it.
Flying is weird and majestic and then weird a second time. Redeyes are even weirder. These mfs expect you to sleep sitting up, which is a skill only given to young people and dumb people (and, I assume, young and dumb people). For reasons including but not limited to this, I do not trust the French even though I love and respect them.
So, why Paris? Paris is always a good idea.
Sidebar: People attribute that line to Audrey Hepburn, but they're remembering things wrong. Yes, Audrey Hepburn was in 1954's Sabrina, but it was Julia Ormond who said those words in the 1995 remake.
But yeah, we're here because Paris is always a good idea, and because I haven't been back in ten years, and because we have never been here together, and because our friend is getting married in Amsterdam next weekend and we decided to take our first vacation in three years. Because it's us, all we're really planning on doing is looking fly —— NB: I'm in my big pants era —— and eating a whole bunch, including at Oobatz, Le Petit Vendôme, Le Baratin, and a few other places I'mma keep to myself.
À bientôt!
🌲 gonna nous
🌼 go devons
🌱 touch faire
🌳 grass une/LAC
🌷 now sieste
Soyez bon avec vous-même.
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