3 days in Paris

As you may know, I went to Paris to meet my sister Whitney and her friend Kim for the first few days of their trip to Paris and the UK.
















I flew in a day early to Paris and caught a Da Vinci Code walking tour that exposed several flaws in the story, including a made up Rose Line, 6 foot tall gold candelabra in St Suplice that Silas could not have lifted among many others.


That night I walked the Champs Elsysee. Too bad the weather was crappy and raining. I had to invest in an umbrella and tights for under my skirt! The next morning I got up early and did some shopping in H&M and Sephora, two stores best kept on another continent, for the good of the bank accounts!!







I met up with Whit and Kim at our hotel in the Latin Quarter at 2PM. After some wine we walked to Sacre Coeur church, the "Wedding Cake" church. It was a longer trek than anticipated and we had to hop on the Metro when exhaustion set in!! A detour into the ghetto by an accidental metro stop, then onto dinner and wine near the Louvre. Cute waiters but disappointing French onion soup. Kim needed to sleep at this point so Whit and I walked down the street from our hotel to the restaurant area and found ourselves a 2 euro glass of wine from a gyro shop and a fellow Canadian. We chatted and he came with us to smoke from the hubbly bubbly. He immediately ordered 2 half carafs of wine and promptly & loudly declared them to be watered down. Maybe that's why he drank them so fast? He was a tad obnoxious and both Whit and I were surprised when he slapped down his money first for the bill. We thought we were being taken for a ride! When he refused the change (after all that complaining? Why not take the change as payment?) from the bill Whit decided to throw the 1 Euro coin onto the street, in front of the waiter!! Opps! Then I started to tell about our moving out garage sale just before we sold the house. Whitney had some funny memories of that day and started to laugh. Too bad she had a mouthful of wine! She sprayed it all over our fellow Canadian as well as the table of two adjacent to us! I was laughing hysterically, but was the only one who was! The Canadian just sat there covered in water droplets. Whit was mortified and tried to apologize in French to the other table but started to laugh as well. She ended up saying "merci si'vous plait" over and over again to the people which only made me laugh harder. We had to leave the restaurant in disgrace.














Lucky us we also walked thru a Parisian flea market and bumped into Moulin Rouge as a bonus.









Jardin du Luxembourg













The next day we headed to the catacombs via the Luxenburg gardens. Another long and semi lost walk, but we got there. Cruised thru the catacombs in record time. Who needs to spend a lot of time contemplating bones? It was cool to see but I didn't like the drips from the ceiling, eww!





We split up afterwards with Whit and Kim wandering near the Louvre and me heading to see Jim Morrison's grave and the Eiffel Tower. The grave site is pretty overrated, but still neat.













I had forgotten how huge the Eiffel Tower is!! Standing at the bottom and looking up...Wow!















We met up again for some stinky cheese then out to dinner, the whole reason for our Paris rendevous! We went to a restaurant Suds and I loved when we were there in 2001. It didn't disappoint and was our best meal there!