Paris, Day 3

Day 3 was October, 23, which also happens to be Kara’s birthday!

She turned 22 in Paris!

For one of our Fibers Paris assignments, we had been put into groups to different vintage stores that we picked out of these lovely lovely books about handmade things in Paris. I was in a group with Erica, Cali, and Whitney. We all picked 1 place out of the book to go, but we only needed to go to 3. (But we were going to do all 4 anyways, because they were all going to be awesome stores anyway.)

So we first walked to Cali’s, but it was closed. We were bummed.

Then we went to Erica’s store, which was open.

after this we went to this cool weaving store next door which subbed for Cali’s closed store because it was also in the book. I snuck some photos and was also SO CLOSE to buying a 30 euro hand woven scarf, but I didn’t because I didn’t like the edges. Oh well, I’ll just weave my own scarf sometime.

Then, we walked to Whitney’s store, which happened to be my #2 choice, so I was very excited to go.

It is called Images et Portraits, and I would suggest anyone going to Paris to go here. It was amazing.

I bought 2 photos. One is for me. It will hang on my wall in my home one day when I have my very own home. I know exactly what it will be like.

 

After this, we got something to eat, and then realized that my store was closed. I was really bummed, but oh well…. I guess I’ll just have to go back to Paris someday. Shoot! (ha.)

 

So we then went to FIAC, which stands for “Foire d’art contemporain” aka: modern/contemporary art… awesome. (I’m being slightly sarcastic in my tone because while modern art is cool… a lot of it makes me really dislike art.)

But it was a really amazing opportunity for us to be able to do this, so I was trying to make the most of it. And while in line to enter, I ran into Melissa and Kara! They were happy to be at FIAC.

And we saw a lot of modern art.

Some was cool:

and some really annoyed me:

Wow. That’s all I’ll say.

 

After looking through the Louvre’s FIAC (there were 2 places FIAC was being held in Paris, one was at the Louvre, and the other was at the Grand Palais), Melissa, Kara and I walked down Champs-Elysees to see the fancy shops and the Arc de Triomphe (and we also stopped in the Grand Palais to the other part of FIAC on the way).

We saw some fall…

The Grand Palais…

Champs-Elysees

and saw the Arc!

 

By this time, we were all ridiculously sore and aching from all the walking that day. I had basically sat down only when I went to lunch that afternoon.

So we took the metro to Home Latin, rested for a minute and I gave Kara her birthday card and made her cry:

Then we met the rest of the girls and went to dinner!

Because Kara and I missed it so much (who are we?) we got sushi! (We had decided when we were in London so long ago, that we would have sushi for Kara’s birthday while in Paris.) It was delicious.

Mmmmm.

 

I also, naturally, bought my mustaches all the way to Europe from home (but purchased for me by Madeleine Glascock in D.C.) so after dinner we were outside just being silly with our staches on before we headed to The Long Hop, and Irish pub, for cider. (I believe in the states it’s called “hard cider”? But I don’t know.)

 

It was really fun and we were exhausted from our day, so we went back after that to the hotel and got a bit of rest before our next day began!