10/17 MacDoe

Very exciting day planned: trip to large Carrefour and lunch at McDonalds. About 5 other assistants and me all agreed that we needed a little MacDoe in our lives, so we planned an outing to the only McDonalds in Laval. It’s kinda far from the center of town and even farther from where we live so this was an organized excursion. We hopped on our line B which is right outside of the Foyer and proceeded into town. To my great delight the bus was rerouted due to the grève. All the bridges, the main town square, and many of the side streets were completely blocked off and filled with demonstrators. We all were amazed and it was everything I hoped and dreamed for. Lol. But it was the type of greve one imagines with signs all over the place, masses of angry people, noise makers, sirens, people shouting chants, and pure ciaos. We were amazed. None of us have every witnessed quite an experience like that one, so naturally we all pulled out our cameras and proceeded to take pictures and videos of the masses rioting like complete tourists that we are. After about fifteen minutes we finally started making our way to McDonalds. It was amazing. A little piece of America. The menu was the same, it still had all the classics, but the dessert menu was beefed up. It had a ton of stuff like small pastries, lava cakes, doughnuts, ice cream, chocolate mousse, and chocolate muffins. The suaces are a bit different but still good. I have to say you always hear about the French commenting on Americans eating habits and our selections of restaurants like McDonalds, but the McDonalds in Laval was packed. We had to wait to find a table and then on top of that we couldn’t even all sit together. I was really confused. After lunch we headed over to the large Carrefour. The large Carrefour is probably the biggest grocery store with other departments as well. It’s just like Wal-Mart. But all in all it was a great day: Grève, MacDoe, and Carrefour!