We woke up this morning to the telephone, and realized that during the
night, we didn't even MOVE! We were so tired! We got down to
breakfast though, and Mal said that she didn't sleep at all! Poor
Mal. We slept great though- thank goodness! We headed over to the
Marche Franprix (the grocery store that is right next to our hotel!)
and got some waters, and a few snacks for the day. We then headed out
in search of some crepes! This is the problem with traveling with
this big of a group! It's hard to decide where to go- and to all agree
on something! So, we walked around for a bit, but couldn't really find
anywhere that had a decent price for Crepes, so we ended up going to a
place right up on the Place d'Italy circle which is just a few blocks
from our hotel. They had the most delicious croissants EVER! They
were warm, and flaky, and butter and just the most delicious thing
I've eaten in a LONG time! We were just going to have a croissant
while we waited for the Crepe machine to warm up, but we ended up
having to leave, because the dude couldn't get the crepe machine to
work! It wasn't hot enough yet, and we didn't want to wait any
longer, so we had a few more croissants and decided to wait for lunch
to eat more. So we hopped back onto the Metro and headed to the Arc
de Triompe. Such a cool big monument! We think that it was the
monument that Napolean had made for himself to all of the places that
they conquered. It was really neat to see all of the cool statues on
the facade of the Arc. It's cool too, because the Arc is on the end of
the Champs Elesseys, so after we saw the Arc, we walked down the
Champs Elesseys the whole way until we found some other neat stuff.
We decided that we were going to walk to Napoleans Tomb. We weren't
able to actually see Napoleans tomb becasue it cost money to get into
the museum, but we saw a really neat church that is right over there
by it! BEAUTIFUL church! It's cool- these churches are HUGE! Lots
of cool paintings, and stain glass, and stuff like that in them. It's
crazy how public they are though.
After we went there, we were hungry for lunch, so we found a really
yummy little cafe and had breakfast for lunch! I had an omelet
complete (an omelette with ham and eggs and potatoes in it!) and Cole
had a grilled cheese sandwich that looked really yummy! We all needed
to have a Coke to stay awake, because we were all dozing off at the
table! Rocky even fell asleep just as the waiter was trying to ask
him what he wanted to eat! I am actually feeling quite good though!
It must be that I have been a bit sleep deprived in the past couple of
months what with the new baby and all, so it hasn't really bothered me
much! I say that now, but will probably be a zombie in the next few
days when it finally catches up to me! Anyways...after lunch, Cole
and I made the executive decision that we were going to head over to
the French Open at Rolland Garros Stadium! WHAT! We were SO excited,
because it is going on right now here in Paris, and we just happen to
be here, and it is our dream to go to each of the Opens! We made it!
We were just going to go over there and check things out, but when we
got there, you really can't see in to anything from the outside, and
we met a nice guy (ha!) named Miccio that was trying to sell us some
tickets! He was total sketch! There are alot of policemen around,
and it is totally illegal to scalp tickets, so it took us about an
hour and a half to finally do it, but we were able to get into the
open! We totally got ripped off, but that's alright. We paid Miccio
(and his really skittish friend) 400 Euros ($500) for the tickets that
were supposed to be for the Maria Sharapova match, and the Rafael
Nadal match, but we got in there too late to see Sharapova (something
we did NOT know until after the Nadal match was over!). Nuts. Oh
well. We got there just as the first set was ending. Nadal took it
easily. It was SOmuch fun to watch though! Cole and I could NOT
believe that we were actually there watching this match! It was SO
awesome! Such a dream! Nadal was awesome, and there were actually
some really great points! He annialated his oponnent (another
Spaniard- Nico Almagro) but it was super fun to just be there and
watch it. After the match, we headed out to walk around the grounds
and see if we could see some more tennis. In the other big venue,
Andy Murray and David Ferrer were playing, and it was a LONG match!
So we were able to watch some of it on the big screen, and it was so
fun! After that was over, we headed over to La Boutique and got us a
new key chain as a souvenier! Cole talked me out of a tennis ball
that had actually been used in play there at the French, and had clay
on it and everything! Such a kill joy. :) Probably a good choice
though. He is such a smart, practical dude.
After the tennis match, we hopped back onto the Metro (because by
this time, it was about 9:00 or so!) and headed back towards our
hotel. We were STARVING and were planning on going to the Marche
Franprix for some bread or something because it was so late, but it
was closed by the time we got home, so we went to a little place on
the corner by our hotel and had a really yummy pork sandwich and some
french fries for dinner! It was delicious! Then we hopped into bed
to prepare for another day of fun! Stockton is still the best baby
ever, and hardley makes a fuss at all!
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| Proof that Stockton was there! :) |
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| Here we are...at the French Open! |
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| And the brother too...of course! He was so good. |
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| How cool is it that we were right there watching one of the best tennis players in the WORLD! Surreal. |
