Paris Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Kara's friend and her boyfriend came to visit today, which make them our very first visitors! As we haven't actually done too much in Paris yet, we're not really sure where to take them, but we'll be acting like tourists over the weekend so I'm excited.

Obviously the French don't celebrate Turkey Day, so it was just a normal workday here (our friends weren't here till late afternoon so I still went to work). Since I got off Nov 1st and Nov 11th for French holidays it all works out the same. I was hoping though that they'd at least have chicken and/or apple pie in the cafeteria, but nope. It is possible to get turkey in France, it's just not terribly common (honestly about as common as it is in the US if you went to any random restaurant and tried to find turkey on the menu) but there aren't rows of frozen turkeys for sale like in the US. You have to get them at a butcher's shop, and it's pricey then.

There are a few American restaurants that serve Thanksgiving dinners, but they had already all filled up with reservations. So we went out in search of somewhere to eat and I got some chicken. I also had my first escargot of our adventure (I first tried it a few years back and discovered I quite like the little guys) which a great appetizer for Thanksgiving! And we made sure they had apple pie on the dessert menu.

Then we wandered around Concorde and discovered that Paris has a Christmas market too! They setup booths along the Champs de Elysees, and there's a big ferris wheel at the end by Tuileries, and lots of Christmas lights! We got some vin chaud and walked around, and then rode down a slide on mats which was fun. All in all good times, and we only covered the booths on one side of the street, so we'll be going back to check out the other side.