Hi Everyone! Yesterday, January 17th, we decided to take the train to Cannes for the day. We bought two round trip tickets for 5.20 euro. We took the TGV- the fastest train in the world and the ride was only about 4 minutes. The day started out a little cloudy but the sun did come out later in the day. We didn’t know the area so we walked around a little at first. We saw a farmers market and then headed towards the beach. The area was really nice, very expensive with stores like Gucci, D&G and Hugo Boss! We are told this is where all the celebrities go on vacation! We were walking along the pathway near the water when we came to the Hilton hotel and saw a bunch of photographers, news reporters and girls with cameras and paper for autographs. We had no idea what was going on and no one spoke English! We finally found a young girl and her dad who spoke a few words of English- enough to learn that the NRJ awards (similar to the American Music Awards) were being filmed that night in Cannes and everyone was waiting for the celebrities who were staying at the hotel! If you know us, this was right up our alley!
Jen and I had seen commercials for the awards on TV and had planned on watching them at home. Performers like the Pussycat Dolls, Coldplay and Rhianna were scheduled to play so we got really excited! Before we knew it, us and about 20 young girls interrupted Christopher Mae’s breakfast- a very popular French singer and were able to get our picture taken with him! We waited for a few more minutes but decided we should head back for lunch and some warmer clothes if we wanted to watch the celebrities walk the red carpet. We bundled up and arrived back in Cannes around 3:00 and right away ran into another exchange student from America who happened to go to Cannes for the day as well. The three of us decided to stick it out- being the only Americans in the crowd and secured front row spots along the red carpet behind the photographers. We didn’t get to see Britney Spears, Beyonce, Coldplay or Rhinana, but we did manage to see Akon, Duffy, Seal, Miss. France, Jennifer, and a performance from Katy Perry! It was a crazy and cold night but it was fun to watch everything unfold.
Today we attempted wash for the first time. No one in France owns a dryer; everyone hangs their clothes out to dry. Of course we pick one of the few cloudy and colder days to do laundry. Right now we are at the internet café while our clothes are spread out all around our room with a fan hopefully drying, but we doubt it! We might go and watch some of the Eagles game tonight but we still have a ton of homework to do and little money left to spend! We will be thinking of all of you tonight - GO EAGLES! We love and miss you!!!! Love, Em and Jen
**The first picture is of the palm trees in Cannes. The second picture is Em in front of the red carpet. The third picture is of Em with Christopher Mae, a very popular French pop singer. The fourth picture is of Jen and a sand carving. The fifth picture is of footprints in the sand along the beach in Cannes. The sixth picture is of us at the beach and the seventh picture is of Jen and Chris, on the red carpet with Katy Perry and her backup dancers in the backgroup coming down to perform Hot N' Cold. The eighth picture is of Akon and the ninth picture is of Jen in Carrefour, buying groceries! Baskets to pull or carry are free, shopping carts are 1 euro!
Jen and I had seen commercials for the awards on TV and had planned on watching them at home. Performers like the Pussycat Dolls, Coldplay and Rhianna were scheduled to play so we got really excited! Before we knew it, us and about 20 young girls interrupted Christopher Mae’s breakfast- a very popular French singer and were able to get our picture taken with him! We waited for a few more minutes but decided we should head back for lunch and some warmer clothes if we wanted to watch the celebrities walk the red carpet. We bundled up and arrived back in Cannes around 3:00 and right away ran into another exchange student from America who happened to go to Cannes for the day as well. The three of us decided to stick it out- being the only Americans in the crowd and secured front row spots along the red carpet behind the photographers. We didn’t get to see Britney Spears, Beyonce, Coldplay or Rhinana, but we did manage to see Akon, Duffy, Seal, Miss. France, Jennifer, and a performance from Katy Perry! It was a crazy and cold night but it was fun to watch everything unfold.
Today we attempted wash for the first time. No one in France owns a dryer; everyone hangs their clothes out to dry. Of course we pick one of the few cloudy and colder days to do laundry. Right now we are at the internet café while our clothes are spread out all around our room with a fan hopefully drying, but we doubt it! We might go and watch some of the Eagles game tonight but we still have a ton of homework to do and little money left to spend! We will be thinking of all of you tonight - GO EAGLES! We love and miss you!!!! Love, Em and Jen
**The first picture is of the palm trees in Cannes. The second picture is Em in front of the red carpet. The third picture is of Em with Christopher Mae, a very popular French pop singer. The fourth picture is of Jen and a sand carving. The fifth picture is of footprints in the sand along the beach in Cannes. The sixth picture is of us at the beach and the seventh picture is of Jen and Chris, on the red carpet with Katy Perry and her backup dancers in the backgroup coming down to perform Hot N' Cold. The eighth picture is of Akon and the ninth picture is of Jen in Carrefour, buying groceries! Baskets to pull or carry are free, shopping carts are 1 euro!
Hi girls! Sounds like you had an exciting weekend...how awesome that you just stumbled onto all that excitement! Have a great week...looking forward to your next entry!
ReplyDeleteLove, Aunt Chris and the gang
PS. Nan was over yesterday to watch the eagles lose, and we brought up the blog for her to read. She loved it so much, she wants to go out and buy a computer!
Haha, thanks for showing it to her, I'm glad she liked it! We miss you guys, hope everything is going well at home! We will try to write again soon, we are busy with school! Tell everyone we said hi!
ReplyDeleteHey guys! Sounds like your having a blast! Luckies! I'm stuck here with like a million projects! Nanny's not kiddin bout geting a computer, guess one of us'll have to teach her. You guys can do that since your the one's becoming teachers(if she wants to learn how to swim i can help her with that.). We got our first "big" snow almost a whole inch and a half! Well i probably should go work on those projects.
ReplyDeleteXO forever, Allison
P.s Did you watch the inaguration?
Hi Allison!!!! It was so good to hear from you! We got to see some of the inauguration, but there was a french interpreter speaking over Obama so we couldn't really hear what he was saying! Did you see any of it? Nanny should get a computer - we could all teach her how to use it! haha! How is school going? Good luck with your projects and enjoy the snow - at least you got some, we only have rain here! Miss you and talk to you soon!
ReplyDeleteLove, Jen and Em
I like looking at your pictures. I know your mom does too. I could pick out baked beans on the grocery store shelves. It's always fun to check out grocery stores in different countries, but hard if it's in another language. Do they have peanut butter?
ReplyDeleteHi!!!! Thanks for writing! They do have peanut butter, but they don't use it hardly ever over here so they only sell a VERY small container and it is almost 10 american dollars! We brought a container from home and have been using it very sparingly trying to make it last as long as possible! Hope everyone is doing well!! Talk to you soon!
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