The next morning, we started our journey to Paris! The high-speed trains in Switzerland were slooooow, but once we got onto the TGV, things got moving!
We were in Paris by early afternoon. We hailed an uber and got to our rental in the XIe arrondissement
We dropped our stuff, and walked around the city. The first stop was obviously a bakery. This one apparently pays its worker bees the best!
We came across Elam Books and made a stop there to buy some gifts.
That thing that caught fire!
City Hall
🙁
We made our way to the Jardin du Luxembourg where Lillian got wayyy into people watching…
^awkward staring intensifies!
Then we made our way to the Louvre, which was already closed, and the next day was a Tuesday, so it’d be closed again 🙁
We got dinner, and called it an early night.
The next day, we woke up, and made our way to a coffee shop. Along the way was this Vietnamese spring roll joint.
#europeneedsmoreasianfoodlikethis
Then we walked around… the Papier Tigre store was neat.
I stopped at a gallery that was showing stuff from the Apollo space program. It had lots of consumer products on display from those times, and showed how the space program influenced the industrial and fashion design during that era.
Then we met up and got the fancy 3-course lunch sets at Sellae, which was delightful
Next stop was the tour Eiffel, which we got to via Uber scooters.
They were filming a documentary there, which was amusing. It was also blazing hot, so it had to suck for all the actors and actresses.
We killed some time by shopping for cheese, butter, bread, chocolates, and wine. This cheese shop was pretty amazing!
And then ate all the cheese, baguettes, and a few bottles of wine until it was time for the famed light show. We made friends with one of the wine hawkers and was able to score some cheap booze!
Lillian demonstrating some pregnancy dance moves
It was a good end to the night!
Lillian man-splaining why the patio furniture in the display was too small for human use… something about the tensile strength of that yarn wouldn’t be enough to support the weight of a 5th% percentile human, even if the load was distributed across the entire chair. Nerd.
^this may or may not be a lie.
We then all agreed that we needed ice cream, so I think we spent an hour or so on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées looking for a public bathroom, and then ice cream. We were successful on both!
We wound up at an unlit Arc de Triomphe and got on a train there, to head back to our rental.
#phonetime
We packed up, checked into our return flights the next morning, and called it a trip!