Paris Day 2...The beginning of the Adventures of Katelyn and Jessica

We first went to a museum to see an exhibit on fashion from the 1800's. The waist of women then were super small. Everything was very detailed and the fabrics were lovely. They used so many layers of fabric it was awesome. Also the jewelry from that period was awesome. Huge stones and lots of filigree details. It was a very neat exhibit and neat to compare it to the current fashion we saw the day before. On our way to our second museum we stopped at a market and a few of us bought cute wool hats since it is sooo cold. They were only 5 euros so it was a good deal. I wore mine most of the trip in Paris even though it made my hair look terrible when I took it off... ha ha. 

The second museum we went to was the Museum of Decorative Arts near the Lourve. There was an exhibit on Sonia Rykiel a famous desig

ner. It was her 40th anniversary. It was really awesome seeing the evolution of her work and then at the end of of the exhibit were pieces that other designers had made for her. They had their sketches their and the pieces. It was a really great exhibit. 

The museum gift shop was also really great and I have a funny story for that. I was wandering around looking at things and saw this amazing double strand pearl necklace. I picked it up and was about to try it on and told a friend, "this is great, this is coming home with me". Right as those words came out of my mouth a man who worked there came up to me and started rambling in French. I had no clue what he was saying but took from the motions and the situation that another lady had already picked up the same necklace and the clasps on hers was broken and since she saw it first I had to give her

 mine. I was devastated and since I didn't speak French I didn't know what to say or what was going on. Also, it was the last necklace. As I was standing there in shock I saw the necklace on a display, luckily I was able to take it and purchase it but it was just a ridiculous incident. 

After the museums we had lunch as a group and then had the rest of the day to ourselves. We were in a good shopping area, so of course Jessica and I went shopping. Jess bought awesome boots at a store called Januk Paris. We then went into an amazing fabric store. It was all super expensive and super beautiful fabric. We joked that once we planned out our final projects for this semester we would just fly back to Paris to purchase our fabric. Next we wandered to a shoe store call Repetto. I believe it actually started as a

 dance store and they had a whole wall of pointe shoes. It was really awesome. It was super expensive though. They had other shoes too, like flats and heels which were super cute but at least $150...We stopped into United Colors of Benetton which was having a great sale. Some things 70% off... Of course Jess and I were in shopping heaven :). 

We went to this crazy mall type place called Galleria Lafayette. Its huge, tons of people, huge labels. It was super intense. We went into the Prada store and dreamed of owning a real Prada bag. The Chanel store had a line you had to wait in to get in, the line was only Asians wanting to spend their millions I guess.

Next, Jess and I did some window shopping along the rows of top end jewelry stores.. It was super fun. We would hop up on the ledge and just pick out pieces we wanted in the future... Two young girls enjoying Paris to its fullest! 

In an attempt to get home by the metro we ended up at the Lourve and got completely distracted. So we decided to take pictures and wander around there a bit. It was late so we  took night pictures of the pyramid and things around the Lourve it was really pretty. By this point we were starving and that begins the second part of our Saturday adventure...

 

We came across as cafe called Cafe Saint Honore, which we were "escorted" into by our French waiter Raul. He seemed to take a liking to us two American girls, which he assumed as sisters ( a lot of people have asked if Jess and I are sisters). We had barely sat down and I knocked a wine glass out of the hostess' hand and it shattered all over the floor in the tiny restaurant. Of course I would make a scene. But after that we enjoyed a bottle of wine, Jess got duck I got a delicious salad, we had dessert and Raul was still in love with us. Saying he was going to marry me... He liked saying "Me Petit Cherie" which I believe means my little sweetheart... it was an amusing dinner until it took us four times of asking for the check before he would actually let us leave... Which we did finally manage around 10 pm. 

We headed back to the hostel and met up with everyone. We went to the corner bar and made friends with the bartender, cook/server, and the bartender's friend. They had a drink special 2 cocktails for 5 euros so it was a good deal. We stuck around there until it closed and then our new friends took us to a discoteca where we danced until it closed... It was quite a ending to the already eventful day Jess and I had. I would say we almost did Paris in one day. We missed major sites but don't worry that came on Sunday.