taking paris, part deux.

on thursday, c & i had a great many things to do. and to start of the day, we needed to shop. and so we hit the champs d'elysee and checked out many of those stores. including the flagship louis vuitton store to do a little drooling and dreaming...

such a sophisticated self portrait, right?!

ohhhh louis, some day... some day... in courtney's hand is her lovely new lancel bag in orange. it's so cute. and so cute that when i saw one at the airport and had leftover euros, i promptly bought myself one in brown (the airport did not have much in the way of color choice).

court got her lancel bag the evening before and i'd seen a great bag... but i decided to 'think' on it. and think i did. so we had to go back and get it... and some other cute accessories like change purses. and bracelets. our lady was awesome - we asked her to take a picture of us in the store and she totally got in the act and put on the gloves and acted like she was handing us our bags!

sarah was not with us that day for the shopping spree, but we sent her to lancel to see our lady who happily took care of sarah's lancel needs and then reenacted our posing with gloves and bag!

hmmm... that's a lot of lancel!!! albeit we did intentially spread every little bag, bow and red lancel thing in our combined possession to show it all off.

i mentioned that we bought bracelets there. all 4 of the scrippsies at the france wedding of roni and benoit now have matching orange ostrich/alligator leather bracelets!

after dropping our bags off at the hotel, we checked in with sarah to see if she was caught up on her nappy nap time from the jet lag and see if she would like to join us for a tour of the eiffel. a sleepy sarah declined our offer to climb the tower and instead agreed to meet us later for drinks and dinner with court's friend, jeremy. more to come on that in a bit.

we were going to take the elevator to the top so we wouldn't get all hot and sweaty, but the line for the elevator was ridiculous. the line for the stairs was much shorter. and way cheaper. so we trudged up to the first floor which really wasn't that bad of a climb.

we could have climbed to the second floor but b/c we were running short on time and b/c we felt the view from the 1st etage was lovely and perfect, we did not climb any further. besides, we had gotten a couple of cute pictures and really, could we have done any better higher up? we thought not... and so we headed back to the hotel via a quick pitstop to a market in order to pick up some wine for the room and champagne for c's friends.

back at the hotel, we found sarah and then we climbed in to the bathtub to soak our feetsies before getting ready to head out on the town. ohhhh. mmmmm... gggg.... soaking was so necessary after our two days of walking through paris! please note the wine in our hands and on my wrist is our bracelet.
no, sarah has not picked up smoking in paris... but, she is sitting on the potty with a breadstick... and glass of wine while we soak our feetsies.

with our feet soaked, make up applied, new french parfum sprayed and cute outfits on, we found ourselves in a taxi taking self portraits. we were on our way to court's friends jeremy and clemence's chic apartment for some drinks before dinner. their apt is fabulous! i thought: hmmm, maybe i'll move right on in and they won't notice!

we all went to dinner at a very chic and trendy place near jeremy and clemence's place called la societe. b/c i'm the highly embarrassing photographer type who doesn't really care about embarrassing myself for a good photo (usually) the girls made me promise to keep my camera in my purse at all times. until we were about to say goodbye to jeremy and clemence. and so i got one picture of us dressed and ready for a night out in paris. and some random guy jumped in!!