THE List

You know how everyone has a list...the list of things they want to accomplish before they die? I'm talking about the ultimate bucket list. Well...Paddy and I sort of created a shorter term list...THE list of Lille.

Now this is post is not rated G, so little ones, earmuffs...or I guess in this case....sunglasses? Whatever. No little ones.

Paddy and I started talking one night at the bar. We were at a place called the DrugStore (don't judge - its great) and the bathroom is filled with graffitti of all the people that have been there, and it was kinda cool. So we were joking around saying that before we left Lille, we would have to add our names. Cool. One thing, then we came up with more. You see there was this man...asleep at the bar. Not kidding. He wasn't dead, he was just drunk and asleep. As my dad would say "resting his eyes". Not. He was outcold. A 'nap' that bartender said. HA. Are you kidding me? You can do that here? You see...we would be kicked out in Canada. Duh. No no, you take a nap, and then when you are ready, you can come back for more. Fascinating. Taking a nap at a bar was then added to the list. Like we said...no judging. And you can only live once.

Seriously though - how funny would that be? Can you imagine? Taking a little nap at the bar - oh gosh I can picture it now. Needless to say, it has yet to be checked off.

While we talked about the list, we decided "learn something" should be on there. After all, we are here for school. That was number 4 on the list. Ride a moped is number 15, walking to Belgium is number 17, and so on. We are students so there are some normal things on here like travelling to places, or going to museums, and operas. But since its us we are talking about, there are some hilarious ones on there too.

#30: Going to Wazemmes market at 7am straight from the bar. Let me explain. Wazemmes market is famous here on Sundays', Tuesday's and Thursday's. It has everything and anything you could need and its cheap. Right. Second part of that is that bars close at 6am, if that, so our brilliant plan was to go to the bar and stay until 6am, and by then the metro would be working and go straight to Wazemmes market which opens at 7am. In that hour we figured we could get something to eat. Or a coffee. Whichever we see first really.

#32: Go to Boys II Men. HA. Right? So, apparently Boys II Men is coming to Lille....why, we aren't really too sure, but we laughed for a solid 5 minutes about this one. I'm pretty sure I have their CD somewhere at home, but I was not aware they were still making music. They play this weekend coming up actually, Sunday night at a theatre near by. We are NOT purchasing tickets. However, since its on the list, we will be purchasing a bottle of cheap wine, and bringing some stools to sit outside of the theatre (apparently you can still hear everything). Im psyched.

Now these are all things that we still have to do, but like I said we have managed to cross some off. These include: going to the bar called 'African Children', learning something, going on a long walk, bringing notebooks to class, watching the movie Goonies, discovering that a litre and a meter of beer are very different things, going to London, going to the 2nd best museum (Beaux-Arts), taking lots of pictures, among other things.

I'll keep ya posted, but I think the next one on the list will be walking to Belgium. We can take the metro right to the border and literally walk right over. Brilliant right? I'll keep ya posted!