28th December

(Christina)

Oh no!  We forgot to blog for a day!  We got home so late last night that we were too tired.  It was a huge day!

First off we met Lisa at Republique as always, and she took us to an AMAZING bakery we'd never seen before.  We had ham and cheese croissants which SOUNDS pretty average but was actually totally amazing.  We felt full and energised.  

We wanted to go to Printemps, which is a department store.  We found a brochure with a 10% discount at Printemps so thought it might be interesting.  On the way we went to UniQlo, which is a Japanese brand that just sells basic clothes - not fancy ones, but good quality and fairly cheap.  I was thrilled to find that they had a bunch of dresses that were a collaboration with Milk - another Japanese brand that is usually to expensive for the likes of me.   But since it was a collaboration with UniQlo, they were only 19 euro!  So I bought one.  I also FINALLY bought a jumper (thanks mum and dad) which is warm grey cashmere.  Charles bought a scarf and a new plain black t-shirt because he was sick of all his old plain black t-shirts.

We finally got to Printemps, but it turned out to be exactly the same as La Fayette - all really expensive name-brands.  Boring!  We took the metro to the Champs-Elysses and went to a museum called Palais de Tokyo.  It was only - ONE EURO - for each of us to enter.  The price was 1 euro for "artists" and "students studying art" so we claimed to be art students which is kind of TRUE.  We didn't need to prove anything!

The gallery was interesting contemporary art, my favourite piece being a sculpture that was a circle of jeans with concrete in them instead of legs.  We had lunch at the museum too!  It was fairly cheap!

Next we walked up the Champs-Elysses again - this time with Lisa.  She and I went to Sephora, the big cosmetics shop, and she bought some nail polish and I bought some extreme red lipstick.  It's rad!  We walked all the way up the street to the Arc, took some photos, and then took a metro away from there.

Next stop was dinner.  Lisa had a place she wanted to take us that was on the left bank.  It was a pretty classy place!  I had "vegetable soup" which turned out to be "vegetable" singular, pumpkin.  Lisa had the duck, which was not off, and Charles had a delicious beef… stew.  (his imagination was broke).  They were all really yummy!  Right outside the window next to our table there was someone in a Smart Car who was totally parked in by these two other huge cars.  We enjoyed watching him do a 7-point-turn to escape.  In Paris people just bump into the other cars to get in and out of a parallel park.

Next - Tour d'Eiffel!  We took a metro there and immediately went right to the top.  I was so scared!  The lift goes fast and it makes your ears pop because the tower is SUPER TALL.  It was foggy at the top so we couldn't really see anything, which is kind of a relief because it's scary at that height!  We went down to the second level and could see lots from there.  By the time we left it was about 10:30 and way past our bedtime!  So we went home to bed!  The end!