Hard to believe it’s already been a week since we got back from Paris. It has gone by so quickly and much has happened. Here are a few of the highlights:
Wednesday, October 28th, we had pumpkin carving in the cafeteria with cute little french kids and I carved my first pumpkin!
Then Thursday night, Pam had a surprise for us fibers girls.
We had no idea what to expect.
Here are some hypothesis’s:
But here’s the unveiling of what the actual surprise was, and it’s something we could have never imagined!
If you can’t figure it out from the video, we were given tons of Brun textile remnants. A lot of them are really big pieces. Pam divided them into piles and then we all picked a number for each pile, and then picked in the order. It was fun, and we were all so happy.
So now I own cashmere and alpaca. At no cost. How amazing!
Here’s what I got. (All of this fabric is worth hundreds of Euros, FYI.)
The next day, Friday, October 30th, was my wonderful Lexi’s 21st birthday!
We first went on a field trip to the Abbey, and I saw a monk.
Then later in the day I went to the grocery store (Leclerc- aka: the walmart of France) and bought Lexi a cake and after dinner we surprised her.
and following that was our favorite thing- a dance party!!!!! It was a great night.
Saturday, October 31st, Halloween, was a busy day.
I woke up with all of these bites on my arms and thought that a bug had bitten me when I was asleep because we had the window open for our dance party the night before. But the day was too busy to think too much about it.
SCAD Lacoste always does a big thing for the people in the village for Halloween. We put together a haunted house for the kids in the printmaking studio, and people were also passing out candy and things like that. So I had volunteered to help in the haunted house only because the help I was providing was to do “Thriller” for the whole night in the front room. (Which was not very scary.)
So because of this, I had to actually dress up scary.
And Kara wasn’t doing the dance, but she dressed up scary with me… just because she didn’t have anything else to be her costume.
Gross.
So I probably did “Thriller” about a million times.
Here were the 2 others I was dancing with.
pretty scary.
We were exhausted by the end of it. We probably did it like, 20 times, and 2 days later, I am still sore. Haha! But man, am I glad I know the legit Thriller dance. That’s for sure going to come in handy one day.
Then yesterday I woke up with new red bites all over my legs.
It turned out that a few others had these mysterious red bites show up the same day mine first did.
So by the end of the day, with the research we had done, we decided this was from our sweet wonderful 2 star hotel Home Latin in Paris… had bed bugs.
We were all up in arms about it, freaking out that they were in our mattresses here, our clothes, sheets, towels, fabric, etc. and we were all freaking out. Maison Renard (my house) was ranting and I ended up crying! Haha!
Catlin and Megan were infected as well, so we all washed our sheets and were just freaking out, took benedryl and I still slept poorly, because I was thinking about the bugs attacking me in the middle of the night.
(But let me tell you, I am VERY well red on bed bugs.)
Today I went to the doctor, and he seems to think we just got bit while we were in Paris, and didn’t bring any home. The bites don’t show up for probably a week after you get them, and some people are allergic to them, and some people aren’t. So, FYI, if you aren’t one of those people that are allergic to the biting, then you’ll never even know if you have bed bugs.
They are nearly impossible to get rid of, that’s what the problem was.
But we’re all just hoping and praying that they bit us in Paris, and then didn’t bite us again. I guess only time will tell!
So that’s been the events of the day.
Poor Cali got hit in the head with an iron today (it fell off a shelf onto her head) and we think she has a mini concussion. I’m sure she’ll be fine, but dang a lot of crazy things have been happening.
Our Vernissage is in a week and a half, and we have to have all of our stuff done for it by next Wednesday. I have much to do! And I can’t work at all this Wednesday because we are going on a Fibers field trip to Lyon! We are going to see the Prelle fabric actually being produced.
It should be amazing.
