Needless to say we spend 10 minutes petting and playing with the dog. It's the breed from the hush puppies innit? It's quite an old dog i think. It ran up the stairs to another floor after a while. Later on we realised that it belongs to the hotel owner. The Parisans have a more open concept about pets i think, especially dogs. They are free to roam around and it's normal for guests to bring pets.
My sister took a close up shot of the hotel owner's hair. LOOK AT HOW PONG IT IS!!!!!!!!
FINALLY WENT OUT TO THE STREETS
Look at this small 2 seater car! It's super common to see it around the area, and it looks so cute!
Btw our hotel is located at Boulevard Haussmann street, which is like a popular street for branded goods and stuff. As a result we didn't have to take a metro (YAY) and we could just walk to get there! (THANK YOU LW)
Unfortunately though, we kinda walked the wrong way in the beginning, but thank god we managed to get there! Shopping shopping~ Window shopping~
And finally... we managed to see..
Arc du Triomphe~ There were a lot of tourists there and some were telling us to be careful.. well because there were a lot of gypsies there. Gypsies as in not those with crystal balls, more like hustlers i suppose.. anyway they have this tactic whereby they try to distract you to sign some idiot petition (totally fake btw, they were photocopies), and they surround you and stick super close to you to get to your bag. Some had newspapers under their arms which im guessing, are hidden knives to cut your bag. Seriously on broad daylight, and done by a couple of 12-16 year old girls? Luckily we managed to shake them off. Didn't lose anything either *phew*
LW... is waiting for something
Waiting for my dad to finish taking photos so we can cross the road LOL *points*
HUGE ASS BUILDING OF LOUIS VUITTON!!!
Seriously i envy how they use their space so liberally. Like 'oh pshhh let's just build a random building here~' and KABOOM.
Trying to get to Printemps Departmental Store, which is like a mega mall but retailing branded goods. But we were kinda lost + hungry along the way so we stopped for lunch!
Headed to this plaza(?) accidentally, and start to walk and shop around here too. My sister (HL) saw this statue and start taking photos!
I asked my HL why she took this photo. She said 'Because the 2 ah ma so small size and hold hand walk together very cute'
AND FINALLY!!!!!!!!
Anyway the toilets are really special, each cubicle has a theme!
Got on a metro back to the hotel to put our things..
Thereafter, we went to see EIFFEL TOWER! Kinda easier to navigate cos the station name had the name on it. Plus all we had to do was to follow big crowds of people.. and the tower so damn big can spot it far away!
Getting closer..
It's super chio~ Anyway we were lucky enough to catch the sparkling tower, which is only for 5 minutes every hour. YAY
Can't take self shots as you can see, the tower just looks like a ball of light!
After that we just headed back and concussed. Tiring leh as you can see!!!!
Anyway on the way back we had a interesting/sort of scary encounter. It was around 1030-11 at night and it was considered unsafe to be out at this time. Saw this group of young boys shouting vulgarities loudly, holding a bottle of coke and rolling up weed and smoking pot on the open. They were obviously high from pot + sugar rush so they were acting inappropriately, shouting, screaming. When we got on the train, they were on a cabin next to us (there were windows so we could see each other) and they keep coming up to the windows. When the train stopped at a station they came inside our cabin and sat beside us!!!!! Quite terrifying cos it's our first time to paris and we didn't know what they were gonna do so we alighted the train and took the next one instead. Thinking back now, i think they are quite harmless, but i guess they didn't really know what they were doing/seeing, which i guess is the scary part. I wouldn't be that scared if they were stoned though.. okay maybe ill still be scared.
PHEW. Look out for Day 4~
