Frog Blog

so.
angela took to bus to meet me and do laundry at about 11:30 this morning. trying to get the right bus from her hotel to my apt. last night was so frustrating; reading the times of when the bus stops, etc. finally figured it out.

anyway, we did laundry and i remembered that on sunday mornings there is an open air market just up the street from me. last sunday i bought this whole roasted chicken and it was so, so good. so i suggested the same thing for lunch today. both of us have realized that we haven't been eating enough protein so the more we talked about chicken, the more we wanted it.

we walked up to the market at about 1 pm and it was closing down... so we made a beeline for the chicken man... but he was out of chickens! well, he had about 3 gnarly looking ones left but he wasnt selling. we were so bummed. we had no plan b.

dejected, we began a hungry walk home... and walked right by another chicken man, with TONS OF CHICKENS FOR SALE. oh lord, he had small chickens, medium and large, all carmel colored and dripping with juices and smelling like the best chicken you've ever had! so we bought a petit poulet for 5 euros and each ate half in about 15 mins. the only talking we did was "oh my god this is so friggin good" and "oh" and "oooof" and "chicken!" and "have you ever tasted a chicken so good?"

i am happy to report that this particular chicken was much better than last week's chicken from the original chicken man. this chicken was falling off the bone it was so tender. oh!

walked into town, took pictures, lit a candle for joan of arc in the cathedral, decided we were still hungry even after all that chicken. went to a cafe and each had a nutella crepe. oh la la.

tonight we are meeting some of the other american assistants for an english version movie downtown called "mean creek." i've heard it's good.

a wicked good day! nothing is open but so what. we had chicken and lots of it!!