Saturday, June 29, 2013

Leaving the City of Lights

 What a sad day (okay, we are a little happy to go home) to leave this beautiful city. We've become accustomed to our way of life here. Bread in the morning, language lesson, sight seeing, and food. We had our last Chez Manon bread. (delicious) We took the metro to Opera and finally trekked through Galeries Lafayette to the rooftop deck which has a great view of the Opera house and the Eiffel Tower. Not a bad view for a shopping mall.
 We also got Quick burger. And you know what? Quick burger rocks. They use horseradish sauce on their burgers and have home fries. (They also were doing a promo for the Simpsons so they had a donut burger)
 We walked to Pierre Herme for our last macaroons, but unfortunately, the flavors we wanted were seasonal and were no longer there. So we tried banana, raspberry and yogurt, caramel, and one called "jardin potage" which had rocket and cucumber in it. We did some major shopping for friends and family, mostly books.
 We walked to the Seine one last time to eat the macaroons and say goodbye. Macaroons were good, but no where near as exciting as Olive Oil or creme brulee.
 We then bought a padlock on the Pont des Artists (because I read that there are in fact 2 bridges for locks, but they mean different things. Artists is for your spouse, whereas the other bridge is for your lover...and the bridge for lovers is way more crowded.) We both threw a key in the river and got lumpy. Who knew that this ritual would be so sad?
 Our lock is somewhere after the 3rd light post and after the 3rd mini bar. Next time we visit, we'll try to find it. Hopefully no one clips them. We did notice some from 2004 in our area.
 We then walked home, past Place des Vosges and I got my last macaroons from Carette (you can never have enough macaroons each day). I also picked up a St. Honore, a delicious pastry covered in cream and toffee. Aaron checked out an artists' watercolors, so we purchased one.
 And to finish off the night, we went to Moulin Rouge. After all these years, we were finally doing it.
 We couldn't take pictures inside. Like, at all. I tried to take a picture of the stage with the curtain closed and I got a nasty response. But the show was fun. Lots of boobs. The men were awful dancers but the ladies were in step, had nice high kicks, and the acts in between dances were my favorite. There was a woman who swam with snakes....yes, they brought a pool of water on the stage.
 Here's our lovely desserts....I got at least 2 pictures inside! lol

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