Woke up at 2AM today and was starving. We bought a baguette from the market yesterday and so I found myself on the kitchen floor (mini frig was pretty low) munching on the leftover half loaf. My dad texted me asking if I can find a shirt he bought in 1975. That was all he wanted. I texted back I will look for the brand. Anyone heard of Montergui? The Fiance woke up and thought it was time to wake up. I reassured him it wasn't and to go back to sleep. He didn't. We ended up planning/mapping out our day. We want to get the tourist thing out of the way so we decided Eiffle Tower and whatever is walkable around there. I then headed back to bed and the Fiance stayed up playing games.
We woke up later today and suit up for the 30 degree weather. The Fiance routed our walk to the tower which was 2 miles away. Along the way we bumped into the Arc de Triomphe and a bridge with lovers locks. I think this may be a replica of what was the original seen in the movie Now You See Me. At the end of the bridge there was a man holding a ring. He started to walk towards us holding out the ring asking if it belonged to us. I said no and he said he will "give" it to us. The Fiance took the gold ring which fits his ring finger and the man wished us luck in love. He the started to walk away and we looked at him in total shock. I am thinking to myself, how are we going to find the owner of this ring. Not a second later he turned around and asked for 5 euros. Yes, it was too good to be true. Deep down I knew it was wrong, but I gave it to him anyways. I dug deep into my pockets and pulled out two 2 euro coins and two 50 cent coins. He thanked us and we went on our way. The Fiance wanted to throw the ring into the Seine river but I wanted to keep it as a souvineir for my first con ever. We continued on to the tower which was within a block. It was getting windy and we took a few shots of the tower. We then headed towards the river for a quiet walk away from tourists. After a few meters of walking we crossed the bridge towards Palais de Chaillot. From the corner of my eye I spotted an Aquarium. This wasn't on a list of things to do in Paris, but why not. The aquarium was underground with movie theaters and large tanks equipped with calm and soothing music. After a bit of time we emerged from the aquarium and headed out for dinner. We ventured down a shopping district on avenue des Champs-Elysees and did a bit of shopping. My stomach was growling so I we looked about for something to stand out and there it was, amongst all the cafes and pizza was the Lotus de Siam a Chinese/Thai Restaurant. Dinner was delicious and the fact that we didn't have to tip made it all that much better.
We left the restaurant full and walked out to the many street vendors set up for the Christmas market. Avenue des Champs-Elysees was completely filled with people, trees were lit with blue and white lights, street corner are carefully decorated with massive round figurines, and you can smell hot wine sold between every other booth. After browsing the first mile of the first side we decided to head home. We stopped into a market and picked up a variety of cheese. I bought a 5 day unlimited bus/metro pass so we used it to get us back home. And here we are 10PM, tired and happy we accomplished so much in one day. Tomorrow we are going to take the metro to as far as we can and venture around there. If we have time I would like to visit Rodin Museum. Goodnight all! Oh yeah, I had my first french macaron today. It is addicting! Bought mine from Raymond Chocolates. I bought 6, the Fiance ate 3 and I had 3. YUM
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