Long over due photos.
Finally have some time (and energy) to edit these photos from 3 years ago.
Our plan for our first day in Paris was simple...just walk.
After waking up, we went down to the front desk, asked for a map and decided to take a stroll around Paris to soak in the sights. We didn't want to jump straight into the whole sight seeing, queuing up to enter museums/churches etc...so with a map and nothing else, we started our journey around Paris.
They say "Paris starts the moment you step out of your door."
And it's true....
Here was our first morning in Paris=)
A small bakery located right next to our hotel. We made it a point to buy a little pastry for breakfast here every morning.
Coincidentally, there was a farmer's market on that exact day. Which, just as coincidentally, was situated under the train tracks right outside our hotel=)
Walking down just another street in Paris. =)
Eiffel tower during the day
Lead the way, scotty.
Eiffel=) It's nice being in a place where everyone is happy.
Bike hockey....it looked really fun actually.
Parisians at play.
You just gotta love the architecture.
arc de triomphe
Av. de Champs Elysees.
We were approached by some Hong Kong people, who actually gave us 2000 dollars to shop in Louis Vuitton. Very bizarre.
And so we shopped.... It was definitely an interesting experience shopping in Louis Vuitton.
Obelix
Some Chinese wedding.
Jardin des Tuileres
The Louvre. (Which we decided to visit the next day, photos coming up soon)
Even the grafitti in Paris was of a different class.
The famous Notre Dame Cathedral.
Walking down quaint little streets
Bowls on display along one of the shop houses.
Beautiful sunset in Paris...
Water-way along Notre Dame cathedral. Do you see that little gathering of people near the bottom left hand corner of the picture? They were actually made up of musicians and buskers who came together to play=)
and so...we decided to pay them a visit.
It was just awesome.... random people would walk by and dance to the music. Imagine sitting along the canal, watching the sunset with Notre Dame and the rest of Paris as your backdrop, listening to musicians playing and random strangers dancing. No words can describe the feeling. The atmosphere was indescribable.
A random stranger who was sitting nearby, wrote a card and handed it over to li...simply because li was sitting next to her on this beautiful evening.
As the night came....we decided to continue our stroll to the next and last tourist attraction
The Pantheon
And as darkness set, we started our journey back to our hotel...
It was a beautiful first day in Paris=)
