January 28 Evening

After leaving Mado's home, we decided to go to a movie.  In France, they play a lot of American movies.  It's interesting that some of the titles even in English are different than the title in America.  For example, The Post is called The Pentagon Papers.  The movies are either dubbed in French or played in English with French subtitles, 

The symbols for this are 
v.o.  -or- version originale 
VOSTF -or- version originale sous-titrée en français = original version that has NOT been dubbed in French (in original film language may it be English, German, Hindi, etc.) but will have French subtitles
v.f.  -or- version française = version has been dubbed in French

I would never have figured this out on my own, never! But R knew what would bless me. 

The theater closest to us did not play the English subtitle version on the weekend, but she found us a theater in a nearby town, Noisy, that did.  So we drove there and watched the movie Downsizing.  It was billed as a comedy but I'm not sure I would call it that. We enjoyed it, but it was kind of different.  But it was fun to be in the mall and see all the signs on the stores that everything was on sale.  Les Soldes is an actual season from January to February.

Here is a post I found about it:
https://becomingmadame.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-story-behind-les-soldes/

After the movie we went to the Hippopotamus for dinner where I had the Bavette Angus but we realized when we left we had not taken a photo of our food.  Hippopotamus is a chain of grill restaurants primarily located in France, with a hippopotamus as its logo, owned by Groupe Flo. As of November 2013, it has 170 locations. It also has locations in Ivory Coast, Morocco, Algeria, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Thailand, and Tunisia. (But none in U.S.A. I guess)

It was after 11 p.m. when we left so we were getting pretty tired! We each got five euros off of our dinner by presenting our movie ticket so that was pretty cool.

R drove me home.  She stayed at her own apartment that night so she could get ready for work.  It was only about 4 hours before we were to get up again and head for the airport!

Bonne nuit!