Day 20

Another Sunday in Paris, meaning most things were closed, so it’s always a bit of a slower day. We started off with some crepes sucres at the “Creperie de Paris” on our street, Kyle’s with lemon and honey, mine with nutella and bananas. I was in a bookstore mood, so we headed over to Saint Germain, in the student area where there are tons of book shops. On the way, we passed by a place called Mona Lisait (a clever play on words – it means “Mona was reading”) with a variety of new and used books on various subjects, mostly art, history, food, and travel, and some cool post cards out front. We bought a few postcards (so, Mom and Dad – please check your mail in about a week!) and kept walking.

Pretty much anytime we cross the river, we pass by Hotel de Ville, it’s just on the way. There was a plant exhibition out front, and I don’t know exactly what it was about, but I got the idea it was just promoting vegetation and greenery in general, trying to keep plants in the city, and showing all the different types of plants and flowers of Paris. We’d seen it in various stages of being set up, and for a few days it pretty much just smelled like manure when you walked past, so it was nice to see it all done.

The bookstore we’d been walking to turned out to be closed, but there were still a few little places to poke around in, including a place that had some old French records for 0.20 euro.

We made sure to be back to our part of town by 5:30, since we’d heard that on Sundays at St Eustache, the church only a couple blocks from our apartment, they have an organ concert for half an hour before the 6 o’clock mass. Supposedly the organ there is one of, if not THE best in Paris. Sure enough, it was massive and sounded amazing. It was cool to see the inside of the church too, since we walk past it so frequently. We’re thinking about going back next Sunday too.

After that, we finally decided to take up Cavalier Bleu on their Happy Hour deal of cocktails and pints of Pelforth marked down to nearly half. I had a raspberry bellini, it had a lot of fresh raspberries in it, lovely drink. With it, Kyle had the chicken club sandwich that he liked so well there before, and I had their quiche of the day. After all that, we popped into the Pompidou bookstore again, just to browse, and ended the night back at the apartment watching episodes of “Breaking Bad” online. I really can’t get enough of that show, it’s incredible.

-Steph