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Paris Opera, shopping and a French cooking class

We were really excited about our Saturday! We planned on taking a tour of the Opera House (we watched the film before we came), shopping at the awesome Galeries near the opera house and taking a French macaron cooking class later that day.

We loved shopping! The stores were incredible. They were HUGE and had the most beautiful architecture and displays. We bought perfume and I got a skirt. Kenzie got a cute dress earlier in the week, so I needed something. It was an incredible shopping day. We shopped before our tour of the opera house and then again after our cooking class.


The building was worth the look. Shopping was awesome too. Every designer you could think of. 


These necklaces were in the thousands.....American dollars. We didn't buy.

You can see 4 floors here, but here were two or three more under the glass dome. It was HUGE>

Gold in the banister.


We bought our perfume from one of these stores.


We also went to the Galeries Lafayette.


OPERA HOUSE!







Box 5



This part of the opera house was designed to look like the Hall of Mirrors at Versaillies.


The grand staircase.



It was so beautiful and the history was amazing!



 A tribute statue to Charles Garnier, architect of the Opera House.





Inside the theater! So cool. It was crowded in there, but cool.




A view of the Opera House from the top of the Galeries.


After the tour, we took the metro to our cooking class. We had time for lunch and had one of the best lunches of our trip! Potatoes and steak. Then we headed to our Macaron class which was right next door to the restaurant. There were 8 of us in the class. We got to meet some fun people from around the world and our chef was very fun. We made bright colorful macarons, that were delicious. We each got to take home a HUGE box. It was so fun. 

Lunch at Trumilos. Our waiter spoke in an English accent, but was from France. He said he had watched Snatch with Brad Pitt over 10 times and learned the accent. He has spoken in that accent ever since.


Cooking class!










Afterward, we went back to the shopping stores we were at earlier and stayed until closing. Then we went to the Eiffel Tower again. Kenzie wanted to see the light show one more time and have her favorite Nutella crepe.





Comments

The Stanley's said…
The pictures are all so wonderful! I am so jealous!!!
August 19, 2014 at 7:32 AM
Golda Cristine said…
What an amazing trip! I love the repetto display :)
You guys definitely did Paris right!! ~Golda
August 19, 2014 at 3:50 PM
emma nelson said…
Well, now I can see what I missed when we were there..Everything! All we saw was the Louve and the Eiffel Tower. You saw the real thing!!!
August 21, 2014 at 6:04 PM
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