Day 3, A French Life

What's that big light behind us? Oh, just the phantom of the opera
chandelier!

Well today began like any other day, making vague plans over a long
breakfast of fresh baguettes and hot tea while overlooking the river.
Todays agenda was to tour the Paris Opera House which was built in
1669 for the King, so the arcitecture is absolutely beautiful (think
Versaille)! It's also what Phantom of the Opera is from: so the
chandelier, curtain, and even the underwater passages are all there
too! Plus, being performers ourselves, we were excited to see it!
Unfortunatly, when we arrived they said it was closed for tours
because the National Ballet of China was performing "Sylvia" in an
hour or so. Instead of being sad, we checked to see how much tickets
were! So for 10euro each we got to sit on the top of the packed opera
house and watch a beautiful ballet for 3 hours! The opera house was
sooooo beautiful! It took our breath away and we were all flooty
because it was just like Phantom! We kept singing "masquerade" from
Phantom while we walked around on our way to our seats:) Unfortunatly
the seats really were only worth 10euro and we couldn't see any of
stage right and only parts of the rest if we strained an kept moving
around. Also unfortunatly all of the key parts of the story happened
on stage right so we had no idea what was going on and started to get
really fussy by act three. But then act 3 was all finale dances and
solos and duets that were amazing and not on stage right! We still
didn't understand the story, but the dancing was so beautiful I even
teared up at one point and Alyssa was grabbing my arm and gasping
right along with me! Act 3 was totally worth the frustrating first 2
acts, we felt so so lucky!
After the beautiful ballet we strolled along the fancy shopping
district along with the rest of the city out for the national sales
everywhere! Chanel, Dior, Louis Vouttion, Cartier, and tons and tons
of other beautiful shops prime for window shopping! We made it to the
champs de élysées which was having an orchestra play beneath it so we
snapped some pictures and enjoyed the music before continuing toward
the Eiffel Tower to try and catch the light show which goes off every
hour.
The walk from the opera house to the Eiffel Tower is a beautiful but
long one, especially when it's 30 degrees and your heels are all
ripped up from your angry boots. Needless to say we stopped in for a
lovely dinner at a picturesque cafe along the way. Good food, good
wine, warm toes, and we were off to the tower to try and finish our day.
The tower light show is really cute and we had fun taking pictures and
finding creative ways to keep warm. We even shared a fresh chocolate
crepe from a stall while waiting for the show to start!
What tops eating fresh warm crepes by the Eiffel Tower?!
We love it here! Tomorrow will be another wonderful one! And it's
supposed to continue to get warmer as the week continues,(so the high
30s and maybe even 40!). But the cold really isn't that bad, just
night time...and by the river. Or a mix of both is just the worst!
Until tomorrow, au revior!