Shenanigans in Paris

Posted by Mark Tags: Paris, Shoes, Walk

For our second act in Paris, we decided to take an easy day walking around taking in the Paris sights. We originally planned on a short walk, maybe a nap or two, lunch in a cafe, that sort of thing. At some point we transitioned to a walk around all of Paris. A few nap opportunities were capitalized on, as well as dinner in a Mexican restaurant (I know, Mexican food? In case you haven't noticed, I like to pretend to be of a Latin heritage which is usually good for some free grub at Chipotle when I habla español...).

I also was excited to walk around as I ordered some new kicks from Zappos.com (which Alli picked up in Minnesota as they don't ship overseas yet). The shoes were great, as you'll see from one of the pictures below. We managed to snag a crepe along the Seine (mine was simple, sugar with lemon juice, Alli opted for caramel sauce), which somehow eluded photographing (must have been too busy stuffing our faces). Alli also found a cool picture of Paris at one of those green booths that line the river, I'm sure it will find a prominent place in our home once we are back in the US for all to admire. Later in the evening we met up with our buds Kim and Andy (we tried to meet them at 10:00 sharp for a boat ride, we were there, they missed getting on by about four minutes...it was really fun screaming from the top of the boat for them to be back in one hour so we could go grab a drink).

Thankfully they were back when we finished our boat tour, and the four of us spent the better part of an hour looking for a cafe or restaurant that served hot drinks after 11pm. This struck me as very weird, as we went in no less than five places before finding one that would serve coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. They obviously knew they were the only ones as their prices were outrageous ($20 for a latte and tea, seriously...Starbucks doesn't even charge that much). It was well into the next day by the time our evening with Kim and Andy had ended, but we enjoyed being Parisians at least for a few hours. (Yes, Alli and I got sunburned...too much napping in the sun)