BADA BOOM! An Entertaining Lunch - Friday, 5 April

After unpacking and taking a short nap and getting my technology set up in the apartment, I decided that I needed some nourishment so that I could have the energy to pick up some groceries and supplies for the next few days.  So I went to Cafe du Centre just at the end of my block for - OK sorry to disappoint you - for a cheeseburger and fries and a Leffe!  Just had to see if they were still serving their fries in the cute little "fryer" baskets, and I was not disappointed.  (Beth Olson, I will resume my search for these baskets at the cookware stores in the 'hood - somebody must carry them!)

Here you can see the cute "fryer" basket more clearly!

Nourishment!

I was sitting there for no more than two minutes, and the "BADA UE" drum band came marching down the street (complete with fancy steppin' and stickwork), followed by a guy dressed as a paper cone containing French fries.  Then there were dancers in fanciful costumes (including a couple girls with pink hair).  They apparently went down another pedestrian street to the west, and then came back up rue Montorgueil, this time with jugglers on stilts and people carrying huge bunches of balloons and a whole class of kids from (I'm guessing) the primary school down the street.  The messages and the costumes seemed to be a promotion for "natural" (or non-genetically-engineered) foodstuffs, but I couldn't tell for sure.  I got the sense that this might somehow be connected with Sunday's marathon.  If any of you has any insight, let me know!

All I can say is:  "ONLY IN PARIS!"  Gotta love it.  Am I a lucky chick, or what?!?

(By the way, you can click on any photo in this blog to enlarge it)