Our first full day in Paris and we don't have to join the Trafalgar Tour group until 5pm...what else is there to do, but shop! We slept in til 8am since we were at Moulin Rouge so late and we enjoyed breakfast at the hotel before taking the train to the infamous shopping street, the Champs Élysées. We wandered in any and every shop and dodged the scattered rain by trying on lots of cute clothes! Katie found a beautiful perfume shop called Guerlain where the salesman, Yohann, was either entranced by her or a very diligent employee because he was so happy to see her when we returned later in the day that he took her to the "Magic Room" upstairs for her to pick out her perfume. I got a quick picture of the Magic Room before running back downstairs after being fussed at.
We lined up with the masses at Laduree to pick out macaroons...they are almost too cute to eat! We wandered all the way down the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triompe and walked under ground so we could stand under it and see the entire Champs Élysées.
We went in the largest - and possibly the original - Louis Vuitton on the Champs Élysées. Katie was looking for a particular wallet and they were out of it at that location so we took the train to St. Germaine where that location had the beautiful Emily wallet. The St. Germaine area was a quieter shopping street with a lot of local cafés and boutiques plus some big name shops. We hopped the train back to the hotel just in time to meet our tour group.
We have already decided that our fellow tour group will either love us or hate us for the next week. We were the last 2 to meet the group, the last 2 to get on the bus to go to dinner, and the first 2 to leave the group after dinner to wander on our own. Thankfully we spent time with the tour director, Patricia, and the bus driver, Louis, at dinner so we are really hoping they will love us! We had dinner at a restaurant on the grounds of the Louvre! We spent time strolling the gardens of the Louvre before dinner. Katie and I came to the conclusion that in order to work at that restaurant the waiters have to be as beautiful as the artwork in the museum!
By the end of day 2 we have mastered the Paris train system and completely understand how Parisian women can eat bread and sip champagne all the time since we have done nothing but walk and climb stairs all across the city.
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