Thursday, December 31, 2009
30eme et 31eme de decembre...BONNE ANNEE!
Ok, I'll check back tomorrow, but much has happened in a short period of time...an engagement, viewing of Monets, Degas, Manets, Lido caberet, two amazing birthdays...now New Years Eve by the Tour Eiffel...stay tuned for details...
Monday, December 28, 2009
3eme jour en Paris
Dear Diary,
Round French beds suck! Especially with skylights in a loft apartment. It sounds all crazy romantic fun, but your feet stick out since there is no edge of the bed...yes I said round bed. As for the skylights? It has been pouring rain all night into right now (9am Paris time), and again you would think would be all crazy romantic, except with jet lag none of us could sleep anyways, and the rain beating down on the roof and glass was loud. Hmmm...still love we are in Paris, but tired.
Stay tuned for today's events later on...
Round French beds suck! Especially with skylights in a loft apartment. It sounds all crazy romantic fun, but your feet stick out since there is no edge of the bed...yes I said round bed. As for the skylights? It has been pouring rain all night into right now (9am Paris time), and again you would think would be all crazy romantic, except with jet lag none of us could sleep anyways, and the rain beating down on the roof and glass was loud. Hmmm...still love we are in Paris, but tired.
Stay tuned for today's events later on...
Jour Deux...Paris!
Our 2nd day, or actually first full day in Paris, and what a day we had, an amazing day in gay Paree!!! Le Louvre, Tuileries, Hotel de Ville, falaffels in the Marais, and beers in Les Halles...ending with wine and cheese and macarrones back at our apartment in the 10th. Buzzed and happy...bon nuit @ 12:30am.
Heidi and Andy had a casual morning hanging, and cafe-ing it. Lori, Noel and I took the Metro to the Tuileries and saw the amazing gardens...then off to the Le Louvre from 10am to 2pm. I did the Louvre in 1991 (almost 20 years ago) and quickly remembered how huge and over whelming the museum truly is. OMG! Crazy. We saw this Italian show that Noel has been dying to see all year, the 3 Venetians. It was beautiful. Then we ran to Mona Lisa, Ingres, Delacroix, and the Michaelangelo's slaves. After exhausted we ran out of the Louvre with our hair on fire and took the Metro to Hotel de Ville on the edge of the Marais where the outside ice skating rink is...kinda their Rockafeller Center.
The 3 of us wandered through the gay/jewish district (the 4th) they call Marais, until we met up with the Spletzers for scrumptous falaffels in an Israeli cafe. Yum. Good. So Jewish! Then the 5 of us shopped throughout the Marais, and bought from some chatchski shops. We all worked our way to Les Halles, which is west of the Marais, west of the Pompideau Centre. Fun shopping at the all the Boulangeries (amazing baguettes), Boucheries (salami to die for), Chocolateries (wow!), and Patisseries (pan du chocolate and the foie gras). Then we had a couple Kronnebergs and we staggered home...after passing the Le Pied de la Cochon and the Julia Childs kitchen shop (in which Noel was orgasmic for both).
We had a great dinner of everything we bought, baguette, cheese, salami, wine, etc. YUM!
Tomorrow...Notre Dame and Eiffel Tower is planned...and of course lots of food and wine! (almost 1am Paris time, need to go to sleep)
Heidi and Andy had a casual morning hanging, and cafe-ing it. Lori, Noel and I took the Metro to the Tuileries and saw the amazing gardens...then off to the Le Louvre from 10am to 2pm. I did the Louvre in 1991 (almost 20 years ago) and quickly remembered how huge and over whelming the museum truly is. OMG! Crazy. We saw this Italian show that Noel has been dying to see all year, the 3 Venetians. It was beautiful. Then we ran to Mona Lisa, Ingres, Delacroix, and the Michaelangelo's slaves. After exhausted we ran out of the Louvre with our hair on fire and took the Metro to Hotel de Ville on the edge of the Marais where the outside ice skating rink is...kinda their Rockafeller Center.
The 3 of us wandered through the gay/jewish district (the 4th) they call Marais, until we met up with the Spletzers for scrumptous falaffels in an Israeli cafe. Yum. Good. So Jewish! Then the 5 of us shopped throughout the Marais, and bought from some chatchski shops. We all worked our way to Les Halles, which is west of the Marais, west of the Pompideau Centre. Fun shopping at the all the Boulangeries (amazing baguettes), Boucheries (salami to die for), Chocolateries (wow!), and Patisseries (pan du chocolate and the foie gras). Then we had a couple Kronnebergs and we staggered home...after passing the Le Pied de la Cochon and the Julia Childs kitchen shop (in which Noel was orgasmic for both).
We had a great dinner of everything we bought, baguette, cheese, salami, wine, etc. YUM!
Tomorrow...Notre Dame and Eiffel Tower is planned...and of course lots of food and wine! (almost 1am Paris time, need to go to sleep)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Nous sommes en Paris!
Ok, it's been forever, but I thought I'd start blogging again to document our trip to Paris, atleast partially. OUI! We arrived in Paris yesterday at noon and made ourselves stay up to get in the right time zone... we walked around the hood in the 10th Arrondissement, around the Canal Saint Martin...after a couple glasses of wine at Chez Prune we ended up checking out the Christmas windows at Gallerias Lafayette and Printemps department stores...amazing windows indeed! It was a chilly 35F degrees but we were all bundled up and prepared.
After fighting the crowds in the shopping district we decided to head off to the Champ de L'Essey and just get a little hint of all that Paris has to offer (and only in just the first couple hours of arriving)...on our way to the center, we walked right passed one of the places on Noel's bucket list: Laudaree for their world famous macarrones. Then off to the turn around between the Lourve/Tuileries and the Champ de L'Essey in which we found a huge ice white ferris wheel. Then up the Champs which was lined with beautiful Christmas lit trees all the way to the Arch de Triomphe. The street had a Christmas world market which was so fun...especially having the German Glugwein or Vin Chaud (hot mulled brandy wine) in the freezing weather. Yummy! The layer on some more pasteries...yummy. Then we went home plotted out the next day and passed out at 9:30pm...after 36 hours of virtually no sleep.
God I missed Paris and can't believed I waited 10 years to come back. I am not waiting another 10 years, that's for sure. VIVA LA FRANCE!
After fighting the crowds in the shopping district we decided to head off to the Champ de L'Essey and just get a little hint of all that Paris has to offer (and only in just the first couple hours of arriving)...on our way to the center, we walked right passed one of the places on Noel's bucket list: Laudaree for their world famous macarrones. Then off to the turn around between the Lourve/Tuileries and the Champ de L'Essey in which we found a huge ice white ferris wheel. Then up the Champs which was lined with beautiful Christmas lit trees all the way to the Arch de Triomphe. The street had a Christmas world market which was so fun...especially having the German Glugwein or Vin Chaud (hot mulled brandy wine) in the freezing weather. Yummy! The layer on some more pasteries...yummy. Then we went home plotted out the next day and passed out at 9:30pm...after 36 hours of virtually no sleep.
God I missed Paris and can't believed I waited 10 years to come back. I am not waiting another 10 years, that's for sure. VIVA LA FRANCE!
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