Frenchies

Do you remember when I was in South Africa on safari and I stayed in a bamboo hut and got really scared and almost died from African animal stampede heart palpitations? It seems so long ago.

While I was there, I met a couple of French girls who were super sweet and actually let me stay in their treehouse with them because I was too scared by myself.

Here we are, in a short girl sandwich:

We have kept in touch over the years and last week in Paris I met them for a drink. Cecile has gotten married and is working on a concept for a healthy eating restaurant and Emmanuelle is working on a line of adorable French T-shirts.

 

Emmanuelle brought Ross and me to the restaurant where Amelie works in the film:

We got a glass of wine which ended up being two glasses of wine in one glass. Emmanuelle was SO OFFENDED by the double glass. I thought it was pretty great. I asked her why and she said, "That's the biggest glass of red wine ever. I'm French, I have principals."