Monday morning we woke up and, after searching on the internet for the closest Starbucks, Matthew headed out for some coffee. Along the way, he stopped to help a stranded Parisian girl kick start her moped. After breakfast, Mom was fighting a cold, so Matthew and I headed out to explore the shops around our hotel. Apparently, the area we were staying in is known for its shopping. There were lots of discount stores (although most of the "discounts" included clothing that originally was 800 euros for a shirt, now reduced to a mere 250 euros!). There were a lot of stores that had affordable clothing, including a huge H&M store. I was on the hunt for a new handbag, and possibly some brown boots- if the price was right. Matthew says that we stopped to look at the windows or went into at least 80 shoe stores. I think that is a slight exaggeration!
Monday late afternoon we took the metro (we learned our lesson about walking the day before) to the Eiffel Tower. We arrived just as the sun had set and Eiffel Tower was being lit up with blue lights, starting at the bottom. We worked our way across the lawn towards the tower, stopping along the way to take pictures. The weather was misty, and the sky was pretty foggy. Luckily, the fog cleared enough so that we could see the top of the tower. The fog created a blue "aura" around the Eiffel Tower, that looked pretty cool in pictures. At 6:00, the Eiffel Tower started an amazing light show, with flashing lights covering the whole thing. The picture doesn't quite capture how amazing it looked in person.
We took the metro back towards our hotel and found a really cool restaurant for dinner. After dinner, and some excellent creme brulee with vanilla bourbon, we headed to the hotel.
2 comments:
What cool pictures!!! Wow! I am loving reading about y'alls Paris adventure... it makes me so excited! Hope y'all had a Merry Christmas!!
No exaggerations needed. It was at least 80!!!!
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