Bday party? I think not.

I just finished climbing six flights of stairs to the apartment. It is about 1.30am here.

Tonight after Baya left we drove off towards Lu & Zoe's house, the two 10 yr olds whose birthday it is. Unfortunately, there was a protest going on (about the situation in Isreal) in the square we were to pass through, and it got really violent and the traffic was so bad it took us almost an hour to get to the party...

We got to the building and Brigitte explained that they live in an apartment on the top of a school building (which made it difficult to get past the security gate and into the elevator...). There is a beautiful view, you can see the eiffel tower and montmartre...

So we walk in the door and this parade of waist tall children flood the doorway and everyone starts kissing everyone else... a very lovely thing to do, but I had no idea it was coming :P
Fabrice was one of two men, and I caught on pretty soon that the parents of the girls were lesbian. Brigitte explained pretty early on that most of the couples were lesbian and that Fabrice was usually the only man at their parties.

Everyone sang and danced and drank champagne and wine all night, and it was about 12.30 before we left, I think.

The kids all played outside on the large terrace, there was a good amount of snow.

*Did you know artificial insemination is illegal in France? I had no idea...
*also, protesters in Paris pull up the rail things from around the bottoms of trees to use as weapons against the police.
*also, french soldiers patrol heavily popular areas like shopping malls and the Eiffle Tower bc terrorist attacks pre 9/11


k its about 2am now so i'm gonna go to bed. we leave tomorrow at noon to go to Fabrice's father's place for a King's Day celebration.

xoxoxo