SOLDES.

Today I woke up at the crack of 7am (on my day off!) because sometimes the case can be made that I am an actual crazy person.  Most of Bordeaux woke up with me, though, because today was the start of the Soldes d'Hiver - Winter Sales - which means that pretty much every single store in France has massive discounts for the next week.  The whole country, on sale.  It's kind of like Black Friday at home except there's no WalMart and I'm pretty sure nobody ever dies.  I'm happy to report that I took full advantage of the sales and I'll be wearing my purchases with an extra little smile knowing that I saved approximately one billion euros.  I mean, I didn't do the math, but... I'm sure it was something like that.