Paris-Day 3

Our 3rd day in Paris started with croissants for breakfast at our apartment...YUM!  After breakfast we headed down to see Notre Dame and St. Chappelle cathedral.  When we got their it was WAY crowded...the line at Notre Dame was wrapped around the building.  So we decided to come back to them later.  We walked along the area and found some fun shopping!  We shopped the morning/afternoon away and had lunch at a cute little bistro.

Lunch!  This was my sandwich...a yummy combination of toasted bread and ham, covered in cheese! : )

T had pasta and R had roasted chicken.  A had crepes...AGAIN!



During our shopping, we came across a little shop that had a piano sitting in the window.  It was a shop selling pretty photos of Paris, but T noticed the piano, of course!  She wanted to go in and see it, so we did.  The guy running the shop saw her admiring it, and asked if she wanted to play it!  She was SO excited!!  This is one of the highlights of her entire trip...playing a grand Piano on the streets of Paris!  (You have to skip the video to around 1:20...for some reason it is in slow motion until then!)  OOPS!

We stopped and had crepes for an afternoon snack.  While A was having crepes at every meal it seemed, the rest of us hadn't tried them yet.  They were delicious!  Little R and A chose gelatto instead of the crepes, and they loved it, too! 

Chocolate...yummy!

My crepe with Nutella...it was wonderful!

After our snack we walked to the Jardin de Luxembourg.  It was beautiful, but it came quite the downpour while we were there!

R played a game of "chase the pigeons"...

The kiddoes

And speaking of pigeons...they were everywhere!!  Little R enjoyed chasing them, and the rest of us enjoyed feeding them!  We discovered that they LOVE Lara bars, and they won't eat Cheez-Its!  Our observant T noticed that most of them were missing toes or had deformed toes...not sure why this happens, but we saw very few with normal feet!

Next we moved on to a playground we had spotted on the way to the Louvre the day before.  Little R had spent most of his time confined to the stroller, so he had lots of energy he needed to get rid of (and sugar from the ice cream)!!  The playground was great!  Lots of fun for little R and A, and a nice break for us!

After the playground, we headed back to the apartment to regroup and plan our evening.  We were treated to a mini fashion show by A...she couldn't wait to get into some of her shopping finds!

We decided to try Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.  We walked down there, hoping it wouldn't be TOO crowded.  When we got there, we were told we had a maximum wait of 40 minutes, so we were okay with that.  The girls shopped around in the store and bought some t-shirts, and then we waited and waited and waited!  We ended up waiting over an hour, but other than that it was a great experience!  Probably one of the favorites of the entire family of our entire trip!  The food was amazing!!  It was actually the first "American" food we have had since we got here 8 months ago, other than the fast food options at the food court on post.  The waitress was great, the music was loud, and the food was amazing...it was a GREAT evening!!

Little R was a bit tired of waiting...

Waiting for her mac & cheese!

Happy now that he had his burger and fries!

The girls were excited about this...Steven Tyler...of all people!

After dinner, we walked back to the apartment (it was VERY late) and went to bed to rest up for our LAST day in Paris!  Day 3 was a day that didn't go as planned, but it was probably one of our best days of the trip!!