Paris, day nine….
So the day nine actually got off to slower start than day eight. Rosie manage to get up early and go to her Crossfit class. I ended up sleeping until 10am, which I obviously really needed. I woke up with the cough basically gone. Since we missed breakfast in the hotel, we ran over to the close Starbucks to grab something. (Yes, we love Starbucks. I am OK with that.). I don’t think the weird sandwich I got at SB caused my stomach to get pissed, but it certainly didn’t help. I have been dealing with a very upset belly all day. So we basically took today off from site seeing. Basically the food in Paris is trying to kill me. (For those that don’t know, I am super sensitive to dairy. I feel like I got several good doses of it)
So I spent most of the afternoon in the room. Later in the afternoon, Rosie and Isaac went for a walk and found the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris, where we decided to have dinner. The food was OK and less likely to continue poison milk.
After dinner, we walked back down by the big mall we went to earlier and found the Apple Store. This must be one of the flag ship stores, it was really amazing. I had never been in a multi-floor Apple Store before and certainly not one with a basement. I am pretty sure this was originally a bank, because the accessory section was inside what looked like a real vault.
The main floor had the normal display tables with macs, iPads and iPhones. You can see the second floor, which wrapped around the big open space of the ground floor in the picture.
The upstairs was full of Genius Bar tables and people getting help. So this was on a Tuesday night, around 6:30 and the store was pretty full and all the spots at the half dozen Genius Bar tables were full.
After the Apple Store, we just walked back to the hotel and spent the rest of the evening in. The plan tomorrow is to get up early (meaning before 10am) and be ready to hike over to the Louvre. Most of the stores and museums here don’t open until 10am, which fits my time table just fine. The plan is to spend the whole day there and then have dinner. Hopefully it will be dark then, so we can see the Eiffel Tower at night. We have pretty much given up on the idea of going up it, everything we have read has said the wait can be four hours or more. Plus I don’t have any desire to hike up that many stairs.
Random Notes:
So Paris is the city of scooters. I saw a fair number of them in London, but nothing like here. They are everywhere and so many different kinds/sizes. Plus there are nearly zero motorcycles, it is all scooters. (The difference is a scooter has a seat like a chair and you don’t use your feet for anything.) With so many scooters and zero extra space, you find these rows of them all over the sidewalks.