Cannes

The film festival is on. We're a little late as it's the last 3 days, but Heath Ledger's last movie is on the slate - Dr. Parnassus. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrel, and that famous midget from Austin Powers are in it. We're hoping the red carpet premier will be star studded, since we missed Brad Pitt and Angela two days before. But there's not much of a  schedule for the event. All we know is that the first showing  is at 8:30 in the morning. It doesn't work for our European schedule - wine and cheese at 8pm and dinner at 9. Sleep has been coming at around midnight and the wake up call happens at 10 or 11. We make it out of the house early though, but don't get to Cannes until 11am. Taking the coast all the way up probably didn't help. Lot's of middle aged cyclists with yellow postal jerseys enjoying the view slowed us down a bit.

We decide to drive to an old town Biot for lunch. Crepes and an old hotel where Nicole spent 3 weeks almost 20 years ago. The hotel is there and they still close the street to serve dinner as we'll find out a few days later. We work our way back to Cannes for the 7:30 showing and find ourselves in the midst of a mad crowd and lots of night gowns. It's exciting to see the red carpet being used and the way some wannabes try to work the crowd - blowing kisses and waiting for the next guest in order to stay in the spotlight a little longer. The big stars didn't arrive, only the Austin Powers midget, the director, and the main characters. Big fun. 

We end the day with a late night dinner at a small seaside town where the locals were eating. Steak tartar for me, and a beautiful cream sauce with steak for Nicole. Raw hamburger never tasted so good. Finished dinner at 11 and still had an hour and a half drive home.

Ava's blog: Then we got in the car and went to this town to look at old buildings, and we got ice cream. It was so good! After that we relaxed at the house for the rest of the day. The next day we went to a film festival. A film festival is just like the red carpet at Hollywood. There were red carpets but they were for movies. There were so many photographers! Well we couldn’t see the people with the cameras. We could only see the flash of the cameras. There was a big tv. So we could see the red carpet with the famous people. We saw the people that were in the movie Dr. Parnassus. Well it isn’t in the theaters yet but it will be out soon! This actor was in it and he was a super midget. I don’t know his name though. I am so sorry! The actors had to go on their knees to be the same height as him! The actors of the movie were last and mama was hoping to see Johnny Depp and his wife Vanessa Paradis, but sadly they didn’t come! We waited for hours! Well after that we went out to dinner. Oh my gosh! I have to talk about this dinner! I had pasta and Hannah had the same. Well mama had this fish I think it was salmon. Papa had raw meat! They both shared a salad and they said it was the best salad they ever had! That was the end of that day. The next day we went to the beach again! We played the tennis game again. We did went to another beach it was called Tahiti. We saw women in no top again.