Lollapalooza Day, July 22

Today is the day we have all been waiting for! Lollapalooza day! So, the daytime was actually pretty casual, I worked on homework in my room with Caroline and we went to the bakery with Tori in order to buy vodka and orange juice for the copious vodka oranges. We also stopped by the boulangerie where I tried some pieces of tarts! I got a pear and raspberry piece as well as accidentally buying a blueberry piece. They were so good! I couldn't tell which I preferred as the blueberry was more juicy and sweet and closer to a pie at home, but then every time I'd go in for a bite of pear I would love how that one had a lot more pastry crust to it. The pastry used to make them was really cool as it was like a combination of pie crust and shortbread so it had even more shortbread to it than the crostata I make at home. After doing homework we all began to get ready and Caroline and I got another chicken and cheese crepe for dinner which is quickly becoming a staple in my diet here. With Tori we all got ready and had a few vodka oranges before embarking on a trip that forced us to take a bus-we hate buses. The trip actually wasn't too bad or long but waiting for the bus was annoying, buses can get you to your destination quickly but you often need to wait for a bus for like 10 minutes! So it doesn't really save you. Getting into the venue I wasn't sure what to expect but it was kind of just walking down a dirt path to a park, we got our little wristbands and headed into the venue. What was really cute is they had a baby eiffel tower. So we wandered around, accidentally met some Alt Right Norweigens, evaded them and had to go get burgers to eat. We got there later in the day so Imagine Dragons started playing very quickly and they opened with Thunder which is my favorite! During their set I did leave to grab some Sangria which was really good but I saw everything I most excited about-such as Radioactive. We then ran over the where the Weeknd's stage was (right next to that of Imagine Dragon) and he did all the songs I like! He opened with Starboy and did Six Feet Under relatively quickly and I was able to get pretty close to the stage. After he finished I found Tori outside the venue but we had lost Caroline! She told us she was on the M10 heading home so we decided since our phones were dying we would head towards home and meet there. Only Tori and I had some complications and got a bit lost. But, we found some other students from Cité and went with them as we were all going to the same place, so we sat and chatted with one of the really nice girls and then on the way out of the M4 Tori goes, "is that Caroline?" Thinking she is just joking with me but I check her shoes and it is! She was talking to this random guy so we grabbed her and ran off and Caroline told us random guys had been approaching her all night that she was heading home and that had been the third guy, we made it inside and quickly fell asleep.

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