The girls last day of school was on Thursday, the schoolyard rang out with screams and "bon vacance" have a good vacation. The girls of course are super excited and also stir crazy. We don't leave for Greece until the 18th which means that I have two weeks of entire days with the girls in the beautiful summer heat.
We went to the pool yesterday where I succesfully navigated our way through gates and tickets and weird changing cabins. When the girls are with me out in public they seem to completely forget their French and change into shy and timid kids while I stutter and stammer in broken French. At this point I find it more amusing than anything else. The general idea of the public pool is the same here in France but standards of modesty are completely different. It's no secret that the US likes to cover it up compared to Europe and I have seen this in many situations while I have been here. I just wasn't expecting it at the pool, the beach of course. Well apparently pool, beach, park it makes no difference. This doesn't bug me in fact after five weeks (I am getting really excited!!) in Greece I probably won't notice but I was just surprised.
France has two periods of sales throughout the year. After Christmas and right now. There aren't any sale periods in between these two times so it's a little bit crazy at the moment. Every store is having incredible sales on everything that's left since February. I saw two women in Galleries Lafayette (a huge famous department store) scream and fight over a heavily discounted Burberry purse. Now I'd like to say I would never do that, but then again if I had 400-700 euros to blow who knows what I'd do :) My sale purchases are much more modest a 12 euros watch I've wanted since January and a cute 4 euro shirt. There are still two weeks left of soldes, I have my camera ready for the next catfight.
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