Basketball and a Thanksgiving Dinner

Well this weekend I planned on just relaxing but then plans sprung up out of nowhere. I went to a basketball game on Friday because Lauren is friends with a few of the players who are American. It was interesting seeing the differences between games here and in the US. For being a stadium for the city it was hard to find, small, and only 5euros. Then at halftime they gave out free Beaujolais wine and as if they stereotype couldn't get worse there was a man playing an accordeon into speakers! I also got an autograph from one of teh soccer players and Kirsty and Heather were way excited not only because it was their first bball game but they got to wave flags to distract the opposing team during free throws, which they believed was unfair.
Then Saturday and Sunday I went to the Biennale Internationale du Design, which was an amazing design festival held in the now vacant arms factory. There was everythign from fashion shows to cars to crazy furniture. My favorite was "Batiment i" which made you think about how you want your world to be as far as genetically modified foods and video surveillance. I really love my city as far as having things to do and the fact that such a diverse randge of people would come out to this Biennale.
Saturday night was a Thanksgiving dinner with the American assistants, their boyfriends, and Roisin, so about 13 people total. It was wonderful to relax and talk and eat exactly what I would have ate with my family on Thanksgiving (instead of the panini I had here). So overall it was a great weekend, ending on an even higher note when I went with my Italian and German friends to Ferminy to watch a fireworks show and parade for the opening of this modern Catholic church which looks like a boat.