Well, day 2 here and we're taking full advantge of the weefee ( as our Parsian landlord called it). Facebooking, uploading pix and what not.
Last night we decided to walk and ended up at the Louvre and Eiffel Tower! It was quite the distance but so worth it. The closer we go to the Eiffel Tower, I began to get butterflies and when I saw it up close, I got goosbumps all over! That for me was the moment I realized Im in Paris !! We also saw it after dark and it was breath taking! All lit up! I almost cried :)
To end the evening, I decided to throw on a load of laundry but didn't realize by the time we all showered it was 1:30am ! The walls are paper thin so I feel as if the neighbors were not impressed. As well, we couldn't sleep and Mario came in our room at 2am badgering us about what time we're getting up- he wanted 8am so in my hasty tired state I said "Jesus Mario! Why don't we just get dressed and go now!!" hahaha And that was how we ended our first day in paris.
To end the evening, I decided to throw on a load of laundry but didn't realize by the time we all showered it was 1:30am ! The walls are paper thin so I feel as if the neighbors were not impressed. As well, we couldn't sleep and Mario came in our room at 2am badgering us about what time we're getting up- he wanted 8am so in my hasty tired state I said "Jesus Mario! Why don't we just get dressed and go now!!" hahaha And that was how we ended our first day in paris.
Today we woke up and decided to start our morning with pain au choclat and some Starbucks! After that, we were on our way t0 Hermes where Alyssa picked up some perfume for her Nonna. IN the bag they stuffed it with samples of all sorts of perfumes and creams! Very generous in my opinion. After that we wanted to go to Notre Dame but still haven't mastered the metro so we walked and found a really tall skinny monutment which must be important but we're not sure what it was. Finally, we made our way to Notre Dame, walked the whole way! It was an incredible structure!!!! The architecture blew me away. We all lit candles and said a prayer. The religious genes came out hehe
We went for our nice meal at lunch and the waitress didn't speak a word of English. She was the first person we've encountered that didn't speak English so it was difficult to communicate. According to Mario, "Shes the worst one yet" ahahah We had a good chuckle with that.
We went up the Arch de Triumphe (300 stairs) and looked out over the city. The way it is lined up and placed is awesome! I love the design of the buildings.
On the way back to our appartment, we stopped for some groceries and are relaxing now until tonight.
Tonight was fun! We took the metro (after 2 days we finall figured out how to use it) to the Sacre Couer area where the Moulin Rouge is also located. You could tell you were getting closer to the Moulin Rouge because every store was some type of sex store or whorehouse or strip club. Some of the names where more descreet if you will, such as Sex Drone but then some were just out there like Pussy's. Needless to say, it was very interesting. It was a pretty sketchy part of town, so we went to the Moulin, took our pix and hitailed it our of there! ahahaha Moulin Rouge was very small. I thought it was it's own building, but it's just one of many on the strip of love.
Sacre Couer was a site to see! Located on Montmare and a stunning building. Archetectually, not as impressive as Notre Dame but the stairs leading up to the church are on either side of huge patches of grass so there were people sitting everywhere, talking, eating, smoking. It was very relaxing.
Then, as per usual, we said we wanted to go to bed early - 2:30am we were still up! It was a long but eventful day!
Bon Soir
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