Whoo... I hope I haven't exhausted you from the last blog post. There was just so much crammed into 4 days and I want to tell you all about it!
Sunday started a little slow due to the festivities the night before but the day ended up being just as jammed packed. As a group we went to another fashion fair type thing called Mess Around. It was free and kinda far out from the city in a strange venue. It was all shoes and majority of them were pretty earthy and lots of boots but it was still cool. It was a pretty trendy event and still inspiring. It was really neat to get to go to a fashion fair like that. One of the really cool parts was seeing how vendors set up their space to go with their collection.
After Mess Around we wanted to see a few sights in Paris. Six of the girls headed off first to the Eiffel Tower. I've seen it before but this time was just as awe inspiring. It is so huge and you can get so close. Its really amazing. It was really cold so we chose not to walk up and see the view but took good pictures. We next wandered to the river and tried to find this boat tour that would take you to other sites along the Seine river. Conveniently is was closed until February 4th. We wandered back up towards the Eiffel Tower and decided to hop on a carousel we saw. We just jumped right on and didn't pay attention to anything. We then noticed this guy and girl on the carousel and thought it was odd that the girl was holding a teddy bear and then that we saw a lady holding make-up brushes... then looking to the right we saw a camera crew. They were filming a scene of some sort. They didn't say anything to us so we just took pictures sand rode the carousel around. Again, silly American girls.
After lunch Jess and I separated from the group for of course the adventures of Katelyn and Jessica. We walked all over Paris. I mean all over. We walked to the Golden Dome church, which happened to have just closed. Next we headed to the Rodin Museum, which just closed as well. But we got to see " The Thinker" in the garden and tried to snap pictures through the bushes and gates. We wandered to the Grande Palace and Petit Palace across a large and beautiful bridge. Don't you worry they were both closed as well. We were not discouraged though, we took fun pictures and just enjoyed the sites. We were right at the Champs Elysees so decided to walk to the Arc de Triomphe.
Of course we had to stop for a good French meal first. We ordered escargot and an amazing salad with goat cheese toast pieces. It was a huge piece of goat cheese on a piece of bread and toasted to melt the cheese some. It was amazing. But on to the escargot. I have had them before and thought I knew how to go about eating them but when they arrived it was a different story. The first two snails Jess and I each picked up were difficult to find the meat part so we got embarrassed and thought we were doing something wrong. So we ate our salad and made a game plan:
- Plan A: Hold the shell with the chomp thingy and dig out the meat with the mini fork.
- Plan B: Flip it over and try and shake it out.
- Plan C: The best one of all. Try and slurp out all of the insides.
We continued our adventure towards the Arc de Triomphe but not before stopping at Sephora, the Louis Vuitton Stor to take pics, Kenzo, Sonia Rykiel to take pics. But it was all window shopping except Sephora everything was closed. The Champs Elysees is forever long at least 2 miles past our restaurant to the Arc de Triomphe. Once we got to the Arc we took a few pictures but wanted to actually get to it. It is in the middle of a very busy traffic circle. The two American girls that we are didn't realize that there was an underground circle so of course we ran/sprinted across the street...at night... it was intense. hahahaha. And we still didn't realize it when we were actually at the arc so we ran back across the street.
We decided to end our night off with the Eiffel Tower at night. So in our typical fashion we walked there at 9 pm at night.... It was an interesting journey. We didn't really know where we were going but ended up right across the river from the Eiffel Tower. We had a guardian angle with us for sure leading us in the all the right directions. The Eiffel Tower was gorgeous and romantic with my "honey" (Jessica) :). We even got to see it "sparkle" twice. It was FREEZING cold on the tip tip top of the Eiffel Tower. By 10:45 it was time to go and we hobbled home. It had been a busy two days and we were popped. Our feet were sooo tired and legs worn out. Bed that night, though small and crunchy was quite amazing!
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