Noodles on a Bike

The day started out with Sunrise Yoga with my aunt and sister around six in the living room of the apartment, then I went back and slept until ten.
Hehe.

The apartment is about the size of our downstairs which makes it one of the larger apartments in Paris. There are three bedrooms and an extra bed. A nice kitchen, a toilet, computer (obviously), shower, TV with cable... this place has the works!

Chocolate croissant for breakfast... soooo good!
Turns out the grocery store is closed Sundays and apparently I'm the only one in my family that knew that all French are Catholic.
Oh well, we're learning!

It's a little bit chillier today, so not really cold, more like pleasant. Really this weather is nice. As long as it doesn't get to hot while we're walking there will be no reason to complain!

So it definently heats up when the sun is out but luckily today it was mostly cloudy!

After breakfast we went down to the Champs-Elysses (or however it's spelled) and walked along the river. We walked into parts of town that seemed to get more and more tourist-y and we soon discovered why, The Louvre!
But instead of going to The Louvre we walked around the gardens and made our way down to the large crowds forming.
LA TOUR DE FRANCE!!!
Yes, that's right, we went and joined every single tourist and civilian in Paris to watch the bikes come in. Firstly they had a parade, and when they say parade they mean the most commercialized version of cars and mini-floats.
If they make fun of America one more time for being over commercialized I might smack them.
But what's interesting about the parade is that the cars travel at forty-five miles an hour! Sometimes faster!!! I mean, these cars/floats are really moving!

Anyways, we had a long time to wait before the bicycles came so we ended up splitting ham and cheese sandwiches.
And when I say ham and cheese I mean ham and cheese.
That's all.
Bread, ham, and cheese.
But the bread is so good that it doesn't even matter!!!
The sandwiches are amazing! Delicious!

Then we also had a Nutella and Chantilly (whipped cream) crépe and some of this tea my mother loves... Peach Ice Tea, they add peach instead of sugar, it's quite good!
I also highly recommend limonade.

After seeing the riders and cheering a few times (they do eight laps) we made our way to the island to find dinner.
We settled on a little Italian restaurant and had the most interesting and by far best food of the trip.
My sister and father split a Rocket Pizza, pizza with tomato sauce, cheese, olives, and lettuce. It was not my favorite although it was good.
My aunt choose a chicken salad that had huge chunks of real Feta cheese, not only did it look amazing it tasted quite good.
My sister and mother split the most interesting pizza I've ever heard of.
It started with a cream sauce and contained mozzerella, parmesean and gorganzola. Then on top it had pears and grapes!
Suprisingly delicious!
I had mushroom ravioli with a mushroom cream sauce. Now, if there's one thing that the French do have it's mushrooms.

After dinner we wandered over to another island that is famous for it's ice cream. Before finding an ice cream store we went to a cheese shop. And we definently need one of those close to home.
Anyways, we found a place and I most definently recommend chocolate over anything else. This ice cream tasted like you were eating a bar of chocolate, not chocolate ice cream.

On our way back to the appartment we passed Notre Dame and a really old beautiful hotel.

After reaching the appartment we had some of last night's cheese, pears and apples.

Fulfilling day, and I still don't know how the French are so skinny.