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)