Sunday Night Football

Do you ever notice that when you're away from home for an extended period of time, the first bit seems like it lasts forever but then all of a sudden it's time to go home. I remember that's exactly how it felt when I went down to Nicaragua. The first 24 hours seemed like a week long, but then before I knew it we were on a plane back home. Well I'm not quite at the home stage yet, but I can feel the days starting to go by more quickly everyday, and I'm trying my best to soak it all in so that Time doesn't escape me once again.

Today Mark and I went to Café de l'Industrie to get one of their scrumptious brunches - a perfectly satisfying plate of smoked salmon, eggs and baked potato that cured us from the damages done last night :S  We sat there for awhile reading our books. I'm currently reading Greenspan's Fraud and Mark just got started on the Alchemist after I raved about it to him and declared it my favorite book of all time! I kept interrupting his reading with questions about economic policies and economic theory that Ravi Batra, the author of Greenspan's Fraud, failed to clarify in his descriptions. As I flipped through the pages I could sense the bias in his opinions. He often fails to expand on areas that could ultimately belittle his arguments and for that reason I find it hard not to take the position of devil's advocate. At the same time, though, I think any good debate is composed of two biases of opposite extremes and I guess that's what Batra is trying to put forth. We'll see if it gets a little more objective as I read further.

Tonight we're meeting a big group of Mark's friends to watch the NFL Greenbay/Chicago game at W.O.S Bar - a sports bar in the 5th arr. apparently owned by a die-hard Packers fan and is also the meet up point for the NFL Expats Group. I'm really excited to have an All-American night with beers and wings and loud spirited football fans! I'll try my best to get full photographic documentation of the night.

Just got home from the bar and I'm switching teams because the Bears played horribly and the Packers were really entertaining and actually played like a team. Good win Packers! We spent the first half of the game at the Aussie bar mentioned above and then went to The Moose to watch the second half. The Moose is one of the few Canadian bars in Paris, and when you walk in you immediately get transported back to North America. I spoke french to this group of people and the first thing they said to me was, "Uhh, we're American" - I guess they caught on to my "non-french" accent and didn't quite understand why I was speaking french to them - haha whatever.

Here are a couple pics from the night. Mark made a bet with Csaba that the Bears would throw an interception by the end of the game, and surely enough it happened in the last play of the game with something like 30 seconds left. Unlucky...

xoxo
Alexis