spring has sprung!

somehow, in the span of two weeks we've gone from snow to spring (the weather lady was calling it "summer weather" but that's really just getting our hopes up, isn't it)...yesterday we topped out at 20°C (that's 'bout 68°F, for you non-metric folk)...not only that, it was sunny...sunny, i tell you! sunglasses were required!!! i know, i'm sure you're all as shocked as i was to find out that the sun has been hiding all this time behind those gray fluffy things up in the sky...it looked like it was gone, but in fact it was there the whole time!!!

wednesday is my free day so i sat off for lille for lunch with aaron...my original plan was to head to the movies, but it was just to beautiful to sit in a dark room for 2+ hours...hell, that's what i've been doing all winter...so we met up with some other assistants and headed to jardin vaubin for some wine-drinking and chess-playing (well, they played chess, i just people-watched)...i swear, it was like the entire city of lille has emerged from hibernation...the sidewalk cafes, which have been empty for months, were suddenly full...the park was filled with people...we saw a huge group of jugglers practicing over by the zoo...

it seems, however, that the fun isn't going to last...today is not nearly as warm and a very strong breeze has settled in...madame méteo says saturday will be warm and sunny again...and it better be...we have a picnic planned and i won't let anything stand in my way!!!

*had a cute pic of the boys playing chess in the park to post but my cell phone won't let me email it and flickr.com is down so i couldn't post it if i wanted to...i think it's a conspiracy*

ps...i really want to check out his book...
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"so I knock on the door, take a step that is new
never been here before
is there anyone else who's too in love with beauty?
playing all of the games and thinks three's company
is there anyone else who has slightly mysterious brusies?"
i don't know what it is!
- i don't know what it is, rufus wainwright