This was one amazing day in Paris!
The five of us went off to the flea markets in the north and once passing all the Turkish stands of rip off Nikes and North Face, got to the French antiques. What a beautiful (huge) collection of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Romantic period furniture, chandeliers, art, sculptures, and more. We saw 200k euro huge chandeliers that were incredible. As we walked around it starting snowing, it was around -3 C / 28 F, so we peeked into a cafe for our favorite "vin chaud" and it was extra yummy! (mulled red wine, orange slice, cloves, cinnamon and sugar).
By 1pm we met Jo and Wes at the Moulin Rouge in Montmatre. Love the sex shops at the base of the mountain. The 7 of us went on our self guided AMELIE tour, and ended up at the
restaurant where it all happened "Le Deux Moulins". Lunch was a blast! The best french onion soup ever! Lori and I reinacted the bathroom scene between the Pharmacist and the ex-boyfriend through the frosted "toilette" window! Hilarious! Then we all continued on the Amelie tour seeing all the places where the movie was filmed, and ended up at the beaufiful Sacred Coeur at the top of Montmartre. Lovely. It stared snowing a little again, and what a view of Paris from there.
We all went home and rested.
Lori went to the Winter Circus at night, and Heidi, Andy, Noel and I met up with Chip and Gordon and had an amazing dinner in the Marais at Robert et Louise. The dinner was a wedding present to the Spletzers...but then they inturned got a a bottle of wine to toast Noel and my engagement which was so sweet! We had a table right near, or more so in, the kitchen where we watched them cook or beef and lamb in the fireplace. So cool...and yummy! The 6 of us went for a night cap (or two) in the Marais a couple blocks aways and hung with all the Parisien crowd trying to blend in on a Saturday night. The we bid adue to Chip and Gordon and walked the 12 blocks home north to the 10th again.
Ahhhh....what a great day! Tomorrow off to Versaille! OUI!!!
The five of us went off to the flea markets in the north and once passing all the Turkish stands of rip off Nikes and North Face, got to the French antiques. What a beautiful (huge) collection of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Romantic period furniture, chandeliers, art, sculptures, and more. We saw 200k euro huge chandeliers that were incredible. As we walked around it starting snowing, it was around -3 C / 28 F, so we peeked into a cafe for our favorite "vin chaud" and it was extra yummy! (mulled red wine, orange slice, cloves, cinnamon and sugar).
By 1pm we met Jo and Wes at the Moulin Rouge in Montmatre. Love the sex shops at the base of the mountain. The 7 of us went on our self guided AMELIE tour, and ended up at the
restaurant where it all happened "Le Deux Moulins". Lunch was a blast! The best french onion soup ever! Lori and I reinacted the bathroom scene between the Pharmacist and the ex-boyfriend through the frosted "toilette" window! Hilarious! Then we all continued on the Amelie tour seeing all the places where the movie was filmed, and ended up at the beaufiful Sacred Coeur at the top of Montmartre. Lovely. It stared snowing a little again, and what a view of Paris from there.We all went home and rested.
Lori went to the Winter Circus at night, and Heidi, Andy, Noel and I met up with Chip and Gordon and had an amazing dinner in the Marais at Robert et Louise. The dinner was a wedding present to the Spletzers...but then they inturned got a a bottle of wine to toast Noel and my engagement which was so sweet! We had a table right near, or more so in, the kitchen where we watched them cook or beef and lamb in the fireplace. So cool...and yummy! The 6 of us went for a night cap (or two) in the Marais a couple blocks aways and hung with all the Parisien crowd trying to blend in on a Saturday night. The we bid adue to Chip and Gordon and walked the 12 blocks home north to the 10th again.
Ahhhh....what a great day! Tomorrow off to Versaille! OUI!!!
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