Paris: Lori & Bob

My friends Lori and Bob are visiting from Minnesota. So, during my staycation we traveled to Paris, France. 

We took the train, which is an easy three hour ride and we pretty much did all the must see sights in the city. This is Lori and Bob’s first trip to Europe so there were many lessons taught around public transportation, safety, etc.

Speaking of safety, Paris is known for their pick-pocketers, and we observed one happening right in front of us! It was crazy how sneaky they were. I just hate how these people ruin the travel culture. But it didn’t stop us from seeing all the big sites and eating the great food. We started at the Arc de Triomphe and walked down the Champs-Elysees, in a little rain.

We made it to the Louvre and took a cruise down the Siene, which is a great way to see the sites.

Then we went out for dinner where we could have used a lesson on the metric system as we thought we were ordering two glasses of wine each and it turned out to be 3/4 of a bottle! Needless to say we had plenty of wine.

Anna and I got our Uniqlo bags embroidered with some Paris images and then we visited to the Eifel Tower. I had never been up at night and it was pretty cool. 

Day two we visited the Orangerie Museum which houses Monet’s Water Lillie’s mural, which was beautiful. Anna discovered a ‘Wednesday’ pop-up exhibit of sorts along the Seine to promote the Netflix Series, which was cool and we visited Notre Dame. The last time I visited was a year before the fire and it looked really nice but there was still scaffolding around a lot of it.

We ended the day visiting the catacombs, a beautiful cemetery, and had dinner where we understood the wine measurements better.

On day three we dropped our bags at the station and visited the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre which sits on top of a hill overlooking the city. We visited a huge flea/antique market and had dinner at an English pub. 

It was a great trip. Paris is a huge city (2.1 million) which requires lots of buses, trams, train rides, and walking. Anna was our navigator, which I’m grateful for. Lori and Bob are easy travel companions. 

Back to work tomorrow. Ugh.

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