9. Celebrate Bastille Day

Tuesday night: Concert at La Bastille

My friend Emma and I at La Bastille

The bal des pompiers - The night before Bastille Day (and on Bastille Day as well), all of the fire houses in Paris throw huge parties for the neighborhood. Everyone goes to drink champagne and dance. This is the bal des pompiers in St. Germain des Près. The line was about 3 hours long, but my friends and I cut the line when Emma purposefully stepped on someone’s foot so she could talk to them and bribe them with a can of beer. We’re classy like that.

Oh you know, just some firemen. Dancing around. Shirtless.

Me, Emma, and her little brother Chip at the bal des pompiers.

I don’t think this needs much explanation other than, sigh.