The French Life

When I first moved to Beverly Hills, I had a tiny studio apartment and I covered the walls with pictures of Paris.   I felt like if I was going to live in a tiny place, I should at least pretend that my tiny place was in the city of lights.

I've only actually been to Paris once and it was only for a weekend, but it was the most magical weekend ever.  We walked everywhere, even in the rain.  It rained just the morning of the first day we were there and (just like Audrey says in Sabrina) it made the city smell so sweet!

We saw the Eiffel Tower and took the elevator to the top.  We saw the Arc de Triumph, and walked around the Louvre.  We ate in little cafes and drank red wine, and walked up the Seine.  I lit a candle in Notre Damn and bought an Eiffel Tower paper weight.

We walked all over Montmartre, and found lots of the locations used in Amelie.  We even got lunch at the Cafe des Deux Moulins and saw one of the actors from the film walking down a nearby road!  Talk about life imitating art!

We walked up to the Sacre Coeur and looked out across the beautiful city and it literally took my breath away.  I know it's easy to get worked up about Paris and maybe exaggerate it's beauty, but I seriously have never seen such beautiful colors cascading across such beautiful architecture.  It was unlike any other place I've seen.

Anyway...I've been reminiscing about my Paris adventure (obviously) and wanted to share some fun French music in honor of that.  This first song has been stuck in my head ever since Megan sang it on Mad Men.  It's so darn cute!  The second video is the lovely Emilie Simon.  I have been trying to copy the look she sports in this performance for-like-ever.  And the last is a clip from the movie Funny Face...It's the closest to how I behaved during my short time in Paris!