Monday, October 17, 2022 Second Day in Paris. Sara buys a purse. Actually two purses.

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The purses at the YSL shop.
Sara and her new best friend Anders looking at the purses at the YSL shop.
After a memorable shopping experience Sara and Anders picked out two lovely purses and we celebrated the big event with a champagne 🍾 toast. You all know how averse I am to shopping. But this shopping experience was more than a little enjoyable.

Now back to the more mundane aspects of our second day in Paris.

Breakfast
We found a fantastic bakery in the neighborhood. I had this soft, doughy, chewy chocolate filled pastry and a glass of orange juice.

After breakfast we walked around over to Sainte Chapelle thinking that we could just walk in and tour this magnificent church and its stained glass windows. Not a chance! You must buy tickets in advance to see almost anything in Paris. We went online and purchased two tickets for the 2:00 timed entry.

It started to rain so we found a restaurant that had a covered outdoor eating area and had a cup of tea. We then decided that we should go ahead and have lunch. The food at this restaurant looked pretty good so we stayed put and enjoyed a leisurely lunch.

I had the burgundy beef. It was very good. Sara had a chicken dish that was even better.

As we were sitting at this restaurant there was a steady stream of police and prison vehicles that went roaring past us with sirens wailing. At the Hall of Justice, which is next door to Sainte Chapelle, they are conducting the very high profile trial of an alleged terrorist. The area around Sainte Chapelle was swarming with machine gun toting police officers.

Sainte Chapelle was built by Louis IX as his private chapel. Louis was a big time aficionado of stained glass.

This is the entrance to the lower chapel.
The altar in the upper chapel.
The rose window opposite the altar in the upper chapel.
This is one of the side walls in the upper chapel. Each of the two side walls has four of these huge panels. There are six stained glass panels that wrap around the altar, for a total of 15 panels including the rose window. Each one of these panels is devoted to a different book of the Bible. Each of the panels has about 70 separate squares depicting various chapters and verses from the book of the Bible covered by that panel. There are a total of 1,113 separate squares in these 15 panels. This church was truly amazing.

After our visit to Sainte Chapelle we went macaron shopping.

Sara is a real macaron aficionado and she said that these were the best macarons she has ever tasted.
Sitting in the apartment watching the Eiffel Tower light show before we leave to have dinner at a tasting menu restaurant!
This is the restaurant. We got there at 8:00 and didn’t leave until a little before midnight. Nine courses and a wine pairing with every course.
A view of the Eiffel Tower as the cross the Siene to get to the restaurant.
This is the fixed menu with every course in the order that they were served. I am now going to show you pictures of every course in order.
First half of the first course.
Second half of the first course. The rocks and straw were for decoration. I don’t think we were supposed to eat them.
Second course.
Third course.
First half of the fourth course.
Second half of the fourth course.
Fifth course.
Sixth course.
Seventh course.
A palate cleansing course.
Eighth course.
First half of the ninth course.
Second half of the ninth course.

That’s it from Paris. I hope you had a great day wherever you are.

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