La parapluie jaune

Steph and Nina’s Parisian Adventure Part 3: Oh yeah, I should add: where else do you get to firefighters dancing on bars and grinding up on random girls and taking off their shirts??  

I remember when I went to this party for the first time last summer and then saw all the firefighter brigades marching behind sarkozy in the official bastille day parade the next day. They must have been so ridiculously hungover. I don’t know how anyone can take them seriously…

That was an epic night. I LOVE YOU STEPH SHIM!!

Steph and Nina’s Parisian adventure part 2:  (Steph and Nina take on Bal des Pompiers- the firefighters’ ball): after waiting in line for 2+ hours on Rue du Vieux Colombier near St. Sulpice, we finally got near the entrance. By this point the line was more like a giant mob of people pushing forward- steph and I were both squished between gross guys, who I’m sure were a little too happy to be in that situation. All of a sudden, we felt the crowd moving forward quickly, people start yelling- I lost sight of steph and get shoved against a fence- my shirt gets caught on the edge of the fence and my arm gets scratched by the wire. Right ahead of me I see two guys in a fist fight. It was probably the most terrifying experience ever. The only image in my head was from a news report I saw a couple years ago about people getting trampled to death by masses of people in Mecca. By some miracle, steph and I ended up finding each other, and the fight stopped. Yeah, so that was our near death experience…

But not too long after that we got in. Was it worth nearly dying? Yes. Where else do you get to see firefighters dancing on bars and grinding up on random girls? Where else do you get to dance in a beautiful old firehouse courtyard with hundreds of drunk french teenagers in the middle of Paris?

P.S.- I didn’t take this photo but it’s a lot better than the one I did take :)

Steph and Nina’s Parisian Adventure Part 1: We walked to the Tuileries, went on my favorite swing ride in the summer carnival, bought a very classy dinner consisting of baguette, chèvre, couscous, carottes râpées, almond croissant cookies, and a 4.89 euro bottle of cabernet sauvignon (yes, we splurged). We then had a delicious picnic at the Eiffel tower, where this beautiful picture was taken =)

On the road from Agra to Jaipur…

We’re mature…

kambr:

Cranberry Upside Down Cake

I baked this last night before going out, since fresh cranberries at Trader Joe’s were on sale yesterday. It was a decently simple recipe, and the cranberries came out really vibrant and pretty, but were still tart enough to contrast nicely with the sweetness of the cake.

Damn that’s a super fruity sentence. PUN INTENDED.

(I kinda suck at food photography, sorry! The photos look a little less bright on tumblr than they do on my computer..)

This looks DELICIOUS.