C'est le bordel

Some funny French expressions I thought I'd share:

"C'est le bordel" is slang for "it's a mess." For example, "C'est le bordel a la station Metro Gare de L'est", where there happens to be a bunch of construction going on. Literally, however, "C'est le bordel" means "it's a brothel."

Also: the word for "Bachelor Party" is "enterrement de vie de garcon"--literally, funeral for the life of a boy". Not sure how much the typical French bachelor party resembles the typical U.S. version...

Finally, I was amused to learn that the French word for "paperclip" is "trombone." The French word for "trombone" is also "trombone". I thought this was fairly odd until Claire pointed out to me that of course these two objects have roughly the same shape...

Yesterday afternoon was spent hanging out at Parc Montsouris with our friends Sandrine, Nicolas, and their very cute daughter Anais (and if you squint very hard, you can perhaps make out the young, topless woman lying on the lawn sunning herself...a relatively common sight here). Then in the evening we caught a beautiful outdoor viewing of the film "The Life Aquatic" (or "La Vie Aquatique") at the Museum of Science and Industry with Laure & Benedicte.