Lunch :) and RAIN

July 23, 2013. 1:25pm.

MY GOODNESS THE WEATHER CHANGES FAST HERE!!! It actually hasn't really rained much at all since I came. A tiny bit here and there, but pretty much not. Until RIGHT NOW. I'm at a restaurant right now. I was sitting outside (along with everyone else eating here), and I had just told the waiter my order. He started to walk away, then told me...you might want to move outside, I thin it's going to start raining in just a minute... Within 10 seconds, a few drops come down. And within another 10, it starts raining harder. I laugh, follow him inside, and sit down. It's about two minutes later, I'm looking out the windown, and....it. is. POURING. Like...POURING. It's like a storm here. (Speaking of which, there was tons of lightning last night and the night before. Not really much thunder at least that I heard...but lightning aplenty! It wasn't just like...one or two bolts, it was continuous! Cool. Les eclaires are strokes of lightning, les tonneres is thunder. (sp?)

Well anyway, I'm at this really cute restaurant rigth now. Waiting for my fresh appetizer - some feta cheese entrée. I ordered the menu :) Mom told me she wants me to splurge a little on good French cuisine - this is one of the best restaurants in Giverny - I think the second bets after Le Jardin des Plumes. ;) But actually. Anyway, it's my first time here, buuuuut I think I'm going to come back in two weeks with Nadia!! :) Nadia is so wonderful. We actually chat pretty regularly in the evening when she gets back, and last night we talked some. She was talking about work and her dinner break, and I asked where she eats on the kitchen staff's day off (normally kitchen staff makes food for all the personnel). She said there's this nice restaurant nearby - I'm pretty sure it's the one I'm at now. And she invited me to eat with her next week!! (Then remembered her parents are coming next week, so changed it to the week after.) Of course I said I would love to!! She's so so great, really. At the beginning I was a little scared of her because I met her in the house, I think after a really hard day at work, and she just wasn't super bubbly friendly or anything. Which is fine, but I was just a little nervous she wouldn't be super warm with me or what not. In any case, I didn't expect to become close with her. But she calls me things like "ma petite", and "ma belle", which is like my little one, or my pretty, or my lovely, or my beautiful. Basically kind of cute, I think loving terms for someone younger. So I love when she calls me those things :) Also, I just have a lot of respect for her. I was coming to realize myself that she was a really stellar patron and very well-loved by all her customers (though I don't actually see her interact with most - I had read reviews online though, and seen her with some customers who come to the back, etc). And then when four of us were drinking together at Jean-Ba's place, they were talking about the restaurant, and got to going on about how incredible Nadia is. 'Nadia est top' means she's like...topnotch. They went on for a little though, about how no one could say anything bad about Nadia, and she's just so incredible. That's cool. I have a lot of respect for her. She does a very impressive job of staying in a good, positive mood and keeping the atmosphere in the restaurant suitable.

I got cut off in this blog post because all my delicious food kept arriving XP sorry!!! :P