My Aix-perience En Provence!: Its not Paris unless you are Lost

So today we woke up around nine and decided that we wanted to go to the Music museum but then we learned it didn’t open until noon. We had nutella and bananas using a broken plastic cup as a knife. So we decided to go look at the Opera house and see if they had a tour we could go on even though it wasn’t one of the days listed in the guide. We headed out there and played and made faces with a funny kid in a stroller who was very friendly and noisy. Then we learned we could take an English tour (free with Paris pass) in about half an hour. We went outside and stumbled upon a Lindt chocolate store. We went in hoping for free samples (nope) and then decided to get chocochinnos . They were good and very chocolatey. Also lots of just like free flowing chocolate in there.

We took a tour of the 13^th Opera house because all the others burned down. Its here that a lamp fell on the person in the 13^th chair and killed her. But the story has been changed to a him and the him is the Phantom of the Opera. So now there is no number 13 chair. Kind of funny all of the 13’s… But it was supppper gorgeous and our guide was really funny. We took lots of pictures and got to see a principal dancer in rehearsal on stage. We were forbidden to take pictures of it but naturally I did… It was relly awesome though.

Then we went to a Gluten Free place Grace found online and they only had fish and there was a mix up so they brought me some so I gave it to grace and ate some of the zuccinni it was on. Then we split a piece of cake and a piece of cheese cake. It was delicious cake. Then we went to our wine tasting which was really fun. We met a nice couple from Illinois who the husband had surprised his wife with the trip. It was clear they were pretty rich but they were really nice and conversed with us. Then I was kind intoxicated which I did not really want to be but I hadn’t eaten much. This is kind of where things got weird because Grace was going with the flow and I was not really making a decision on what to do so we tried taking a subway and I ate a bag of chips to try and get something to take up the alcohol. We got off at the champs elysee named metro stop but then it wasn’t actually near it at all. So then we looked at the Grand Palace which was just a big emptry cool looking building. We jumped on a red tourist bus which we had passes for. We sat on top but then it was freezing and started raining so we got off at the next stop which was at a marine/boat museum place. We went in there because we could and used their bathrooms and then walked around. We think that they had prettier paintings than the louvre and lots of cool little boat miniatures.

We then decided we should go to the perfume place. We jumped around on the metros and then found it. It was actually the same perfume place I went to in Eze. It was closed but the boutique was open so we smelled some far too expensive perfumes. We went back past the lindt chocolate store and this time they had samples when we walked by so we popped in and took one and then left. Then we went to a store that looked like it was black Friday in there. We asked some sales guy what the heck was going on and if there was a big sale or something and he was like oh uh no its just a holiday and a Friday. So we said okay bye and went to au Printemps which was like equally as scary but also a big designer people store (Gucci, Fendi, Michael Kors, other famous things I have never heard of…). We promptly left because it was scary in there. Then we went back down the metro and one of the metro machines ate graces ticket so we had to get the guy to come make the machine give it back. Then we went towards the touristy part of town to go tourist shopping. Then we didn’t find any tourist shops so we got confused. We went to a McDonalds to use their bathrooms and wifi and then realized we were on the wrong side of the Seine. By the time we walked across it we went to two souvenir places and then were like nope we are done. We went to get some dinner to bring back to the hotel room. I bought a pizza and some stuff from the grocery store. Grace bought a little wine opener. We took the pizza on the metros with us which was comical because I had to turn it on its side. When we got home and ate food and chilled. I took a shower and then we tried to use a tiny bottle opener to open a bottle of wine we bought yesterday. It was really funny to try as the first hole we made just like came out all swirly like. Then we finally got it out without breaking the silly bottle opener. Then we just stayed in and chilled and talked and drank the wine really slowly and made tentative plans to drop off our bags in the Louvre tomorrow before going up the Eiffel Tower!