Paris - Day 3

Thanks to my house owner who had forgotten to pay the internet bill and my Cambridge trip on Sunday, the travelogue is still not complete. I’ve decided I’ll complete it and they should go live on Tuesday at any cost (s/w engineer you see).
Over to day 3
The amount of walking we did on day 2 meant we all got up pretty late. Rushed for the breakfast before the kitchen closes and had some cornflakes, orange juice, a bun as hard as rock with Butter and Jam. It was about 10 by the time we checked out of the hostel. We went to St-Michael Notre Dame or just Notre Dame. It was another huge cathedral with beautiful carvings covering the whole front face. We took a small tour inside the cathedral. It’s one the most beautiful buildings in Paris. It has a couple of scale models inside the church itself. With all the same intricate designs. Even the insides of the church were carved exactly the same way.
Next stop was Louvre Museum. On the way we saw an open area with a couple of short walls and the Eiffel at a distance. I remembered a picture which I saw the previous day where a lady bends down and the Eiffel is seen between her legs. We tried the same but with a bit of fun with Mukul. You tell me how it’s come… ;)Then we walked a looooong way towards Louvre through the Tuileries garden again. I actually wasn’t so interested in paintings and stuff. So I was like it’s so nice and sunny outside. I’ll be outside taking snaps of the Pyramids outside. Dheeraj convinced me to come. You’ve come all the way to Paris. Atleast for namesake come and see Monalisa. You can later tell your grandchildren that you saw Monalisa. I decided ok wat the heck, lemme see what’s there in that one painting which has made it soo famous. Again yet another disappointment. It was nothing gr8 or probably I didn’t have the artistic sight to appreciate it. I felt the carvings and statues on ceiling were much more beautiful. Took a few snaps with The Lady as a proof of my visit. Then was roaming about the place staring at the paintings. Kazhudhaiku theriyuma Karpoora vaasana kadhayathaan irrundhudhu. Finally we decided enuff is enuff and four of us: Me, Mukul, Dheeraj and Sunetra came out and did some sun bath.
Then we decided to go for some Perfume shopping which Sunetra was so determined to do since day 1. Finally we got a chance and we went to Champs-Elysees (We had for a long time thot it was some building and finally we realized it’s the name one section of one of the broad roads leading towards the Arc De Triumphe) searching for Perfume shops. We found a few and most of them were wayyyy beyond her budget. So she returned empty handed. We then went back to the hostel (Even though we had checked it out in the morning, they let us keep the luggages in a room), collected the baggages and came back to near Eiffel tower to again try our luck with the Seine river cruise. Someone must have cursed us. We again missed the cruise by 15 min. But it was late for us to wait for the next cruise that was about 45 minutes later. We had to start to the coach station by then. We spent some time on the banks of the river and started our journey back to the Gallieni station. We reached there half an hour b4 the scheduled time, stood in yet another queue to get our boarding pass and came to our bus hoping to get a good sleep. Disappointments were the order of our tour probably. First the bus was already full and we had to sit separately, then this bus also didn’t have the Xtra leg space that was promised at the time of booking and even worse than the onward travel, the WC was also not working. It didn’t end there. There was another chatter box sitting in front and she was talking when I slept and was still talking when I woke up at the port for the ferry.
This time the wait for even longer. But we settled down and slept quickly in one the sofas even before the Ferry started and continued the sleep back in the bus. We were welcomed in London with a COLD morning….. We didn’t have much time to relax as we had to go to office. So that was my Paris trip. We did have a lot of disappointments. But still the Trip as a whole was very good. Thanks to everyone who had made it very memorable trip.