By Stefanie’s request we purchased at the breakfast option at the hotel, so we started our day with a hearty meal. The weather was colder than planned. When I was packing for the trip forecast were hovering between high 60s low 70s in Paris. Alas, today, the high was 54° and windy. At least no rain! So we rearranged our plans to visit Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, so Stefanie could get a hat. The stores are packed with designer goods with a beautiful dome ceiling. I probably bought the cheapest thing there, a single crescent moon earring for €19. We went to the Terrace on top for our first look at the Eiffel Tower today (many more to come). We continued our shopping down to the Passage

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before the passageway, I made a stop at Book-Off, that secondhand bookstore we discovered in Japan that often has K-pop goods. The New York store didn’t have any, and I haven’t seen a single K-pop idol since I arrived, despite all the fashion and perfume ads. Surprisingly this one had a large collection of old albums. But no other merch, and the photo cards they had were pretty poor quality. Mostly fakes and dirty pieces, lots of copies of unpopular idols (Taeil).

. . . Passage Choiseul where there are many unique shops. I would have eaten at any of the restaurants in there too! More my familiar style of a quick sandwich, bowl, or wrap in a casual setting, lots of Asian choices too! However I had in my mind that I should have a quiche today. We found one outside the passageway, but not before I stopped in Annie Bouquet to get more wool! Mom purchased this kit for me when she discovered the shop on her trip to Paris. Rather than request for additional supplies by mail, as the shop owner had offered, I brought it myself! Annie (?) the owner was so kind! I explained in broken French the reason I was there, and she was delighted to help me. Not only did she want to give me more dark green, the color I needed to resupply, she decided I needed several more and reached here and there in her cupboards to find the exact matches. I also asked her how to finish the project to make the finished case. She brought out an example and gave me detailed (which I filmed a recording of her hands while she spoke so I can remember how to do it.)

The last time my hair looked good. It was very windy!
does this look familiar to anyone?
OMG, the line for these blind pack dolls
Turbo Granny!!

Lunchtime! I found a veggie quiche and a delicious (but far too big) pistachio and apricot tart. Oh my gosh, it’s already 1115 at night. OK I’m gonna do less typing and more photos. After our café lunch, we walked over to Notre Dame (the sun came out!!!), the stores in Ie st Louis, and then got in line for our tickets for.Sainte Chappelle.

We found the name Rachel on her food on the train, and now the name Stephanie at the flower market

and then we went to the Cathedral. It was gorgeous absolutely stunning.

We took the metro to Les Bateux Mouches for our boat tour. I got a citron et sucre crepe on the bridge to warm my hands. Stunning views were had while on a boat. Enjoy the pictures in the next post. I’m having tech problems tonight and I don’t want to risk losing what I have so far by reloading. So let me continue typing and I’ll post pictures separately.

after the boat ride, we walked to the Eiffel Tower to get a closer look. We didn’t really have a plan at this point, it seemed a little early for dinner. So I suggested we walk over to Rue Cler and have a look around. Most of the shops were closed, but I was surprised how many were still open. The cheese shop, the butchery, flowers, and many takeaway shops. I bought macarons to eat later. I also had a good laugh at the products inside this American store called the Real McCoy. They had a huge stock of canned pumpkin! We double back to an Italian restaurant we had earlier and had a long dinner. I ordered lasagna, which came with a huge amount of cheese on top. I tried to scrape most of it off, but let’s just declare today a cheese day between the lasagna and The quiche. I encourage my friend to have a glass of wine because she was eyeing it. She really loosened up and we had a great conversation. Maybe because of the wine, it took a while to pack up and pay 💰 the bill and exit the restaurant. We walked over to the Eiffel Tower to catch the sparkles at the top of the hour Enjoy more photos in the next post!