Film en Plein air avec des amis

(Outdoor film with friends)

Paris doesn't really recognize summer starting until the end of July so I was excited to get a see one of the free outdoors movies before we left.  It had been raining all day so we were a little worried especially since we had invited a few people to join us ... that's right we have people to invite.  Ben joined us and I invited Jenny, from Chicago, we meet during the macaron class.  

We showed up around 8:20 to picnic before "Gran Torino" started and were planning on renting chairs.  Chairs would be for rent at 8:30 so Jenny sat on a small bath towel while down sat on a plastic bag, we were looking pretty sad.  At 9 they finally let us rent chairs though no promise that a movie would actually be shown.  A nice bonus was our chairs came with giant blankets, our picnic was saved from our sad towel.

  

Jenny and I under the lawn chair blanket lean to Ben and Daniel constructed. 

It started to rain just a little bit but we decided to stick it out and open another bottle of wine. Luckily it only sprinkled for about 20 minutes and the weather behaved for the rest of the night.  We had a ridiculous amount of food that everyone brought which was great though we did run a little short on wine, so Jenny and I ran to a store for more.  I really enjoyed getting to spend some girl time, Daniel and I have been spending a lot of time together.

Movie screen is inflated! Tom, a fellow american and friend of Ben's, is in the foreground.

So this would be a picture of our food and wine, apparently trying to take a picture sans flash at 11 outside doesn't work so well.  Ben would be the white blur. 

In getting more wine we also bought some chocolate bars to accompany Ben's oreo for dessert.

Aren't we cute.

Despite renting the five chairs we spent most our our time lounging on the blankets which were the real saving grace to our picnic.  The five of us had a great time before and during and had to be shooed off the lawn after the film finished.  It was our second to last night in Paris and spending it with our summer friends was a really nice way to wrap up an amazing trip.