Paris – Day 40 – 41

On Friday (my birthday woo-hoo!) We took the metro to St Paul and walked around Marais. If you like to shop this is an awesome area. Also, there are lots of different kinds of food places and the bakeries smelled amazing. Then we walked towards Il-de-Cite and Notre Dame. There was a huge line up so we didn’t go inside. From there we walked (whew, we did a lot of walking!) to Jardin du Tulliries and the louvre. Chilling in the garden was so nice, especially since the sun started coming out!

Notre Dame, Paris

Then we toured around the Lourve for a bit and I got my art nerd on. We ok in one section for getting in for under 26, but in the other section the guy wouldn’t let us in without date of birthday ID (fyi its free for those under 26).  My friends are awesome and surprised me with a birthday cake when we got back to the apartment, then we went down the street for a birthday dinner. Unfortunately they forgot my meal and it ended up not being very good either (and I’m not a picky eater!). The night topped off with us going to the sex museum… lets just say don’t take someone there on a date… people are just weird….

On our last day in Paris (Saturday), we took it easy and instead of doing the Fat Tire bike tour we did our own little wandering around. First we went to Montmartre area, and Darcy and I successfully got kicked out of Sacre-Coeur for wearing shorts (we must have looked like slutty heathens as many others were walking in with shorts). Needless to say it pressed a hot button of mine and I overreacted.. but walking around looking at all the hand-painted (albeit mass produced) art brought me back to a happy place 🙂

Just chillin by the Eiffel Tower

After that we walked along Champs d’Elysees for a bit and ended up at the Eiffel tower where we sat and had wine and chocolate. No big deal,  just your every day average Saturday… 🙂

Finally we met up with Chirag’s friends Sara and Nicholas and had a yummy dinner at Little Georgette, a cute tapas style restaurant near Jardin des Tuileries.