France Day 5

This is on 19th April 2010, Day 82 of my exchange

We had a great brunch: Pastaa~ haha, We cooked it :D And YW and FC packed sandwiches for lunch.

After that, We went to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris. It was a great cathedral! It is built on top of a slope and so, there was a carriage on sloping rails to bring people up. If you go to this place, you'll have to be careful: There were guys who just approached people to tie strings on their hands and asked for money. Luckily we ran away as they approached us :)We then went behind the Basilica to find a market where i bought my first crepe in paris at this shop called Galerie Montmartre :)

We then took a train down to the Lourve. We split up to explore the lourve on our own and decided to meet up 3 hrs later. I first went to look at the apple store! It was a fantastic place! But the iPad wasn't out yet :( After spending about 15 minutes there, I went on to enter the museum.

First was a section of History of Lourve, the museum itself. This section's setting was a cave-like surrounding with a wooden raised platform for people to walk around. Next, I happened to go into the egyptian section. There were lots of statues of pharaohs, sphinxes, mummies, tools, nile boats and so on. After going through more sections I got lost.

The map was a little unhelpful since the numbers of the paintings and the sections didn't really match. So, I started to look for the mona lisa before time was up. I had to walk for about 45 mins more till i found it :) Tha place was HUGE! Seriously! You can spend days down there if you wanna take a good look at every thing on display! Well, the cordoned off area was pretty huge for the mona lisa painting when compared to the other paintings. There were about 40 people gathered infront of it, taking pictures of it and with it.

I then went through several large halls before I found the exit to get out of the museum. I met JH and Johnny and brought them to the apple store. They were quite reluctant at first but got hooked on the ipods and headphones once they got in :P We then went down to meet up with Azri, KH, FC and YW to go have dinner. I went out to do a couple of stuff while the slow pokes were taking their time to eat. First stop was the Shakesphere bookstore. I had seen this bookstore on TV/ some youtube video before and HAD to go look at it. A couple of famous artists had stayed ther before. There were books all around me from the time I entered and it was just sooo cozy and warm inside. I would have loved to stay in such a place! It was a bit cramped but i didn't mind at all. There were even place for discussion, and some comfy reading chairs.

Second up was the beret shop. I just had to get one of those things for myself. Kai hee got a pink one and I got a grey one. I then went over to the vegie falafel place that i saw earlier to get myself a delicious filling sandwich. That place gives you a piece of open broodje to fill up with whatever stuff you want. So, I stuffed in as much as I could! The variety was awesome!

We then went back to collect our bags and go wait for the eurolines bus. We had to wait a long time to go check in with our ticket. there were some commotion in the queues. We then took our bus back home :D END OF PARISS TRIPP :D