Our first stop was the bead shop in Rue de Temple, le Marais. Mum had been telling me about this store since June. I have a love for making my own bracelets. We went inside the shop and chose lots of beads and strings so we could make the bracelets when we got home.
Last time we came to Paris we went to Mariage Freres, the tea shop. We loved it so much we went back again. There was a type of tea, called 'Wedding Imperial', a chocolate and caramel tea. It smelled so nice we bought some! Our friends also bought some cherry tea.
We walked into the back streets of the Bastille district. We came across a street full of life and restaurants and cafes. We chose a restaurant and sat down. I chose a steak, salad and chips. For dessert I had a chocolate crepe with fruit sauce. That night I was so very tired.
My favourite Van Gogh painting was where it was just a landscape with some bails of hay. The museum was very big and on the ceiling there were lots of carvings. It was a train station many years ago. The old huge clock was still there.
We were walking back from the museum when we saw a sushi restaurant. So we decided to stop for lunch. I had avocado and salmon sushi and cucumber sushi! My favourite!
After lunch, we moved on to the Rodin Museum. The Rodin Museum is a museum that shows all the statues made by Augustus Rodin. My favourite statue was 'The Thinker' of a man sitting with his head leaning on his hands.
Do you know Desigual? The Spanish clothes' brand? It is a very creative and colourful brand of clothing that is very popular here in France. We went to a Desigual concept store and it was giant! I chose some jean tights. We went over to a lady in the shop and she sewed a patch on my tights and stitched the word Paris next to the patch! Now my tights are unique.
One of our days in Paris was just spent shopping with our friends. The boys went one direction and us girls another. We all met at 'Laduree', a salon famous for the best macaroons, since 1862. I had some sandwiches with all types of vegetables and chicken. They were great, though not as fabulous as the macaroons which we ate when we arrived back at the house!
Near the Eiffel tower there is the River Seine. We hopped onto a boat to go cruising down the river. We saw all the monuments and turned back around at the Island of St Louis and returned.
The Luxembourg Garden is a big park on the Left Bank with some activities for children. There was a big pond and fountain in the middle of the park. A man was hiring out some miniature sailing boats. The man gave us a boat and a long stick. We put our boats in the water and pushed them out towards the fountain with the stick. Then we ran around the other side of the pond, ready to catch the boat for when it approached the edge of the pond.
We also walked past the Pantheon. I thought it was very beautiful, but we didn't get to go inside. We walked through the Latin quarter all the way to the church, Sainte Chapelle. It's a church within the Palace of Justice, which actually used to be the City's Palace. King Louis IX lived in this palace and had the church built within its confines. We went inside and the glass stained windows were amazingly beautiful! The windows were so big and the pictures depict the stories of the Bible. The church even has the actual crown of thorns that Jesus wore on the cross as well as a bit of the cross within the upper chapel! They said that the acquisition of the crown of thorns greatly exceeded the cost of building the actual church itself.
In Paris, Berthillon ice-cream is well loved by tourists and Parisians. I got 3 balls of Berthillon glace; white chocolate, fig, and blackberry! We sat next to the river while we ate our ice-creams and they were delicious.
We're home again now and all unpacked. This is how I am going with the bracelets:
Au revoir!
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