Tuesday, April 14 – Love Wall and Amelie Pilgrimage

So…last day in Paris for me and Jen…aaah! We made plans to go to the catacombs, but were separated by my need to post things, but found each other in the unthinkably long line. After waiting for an hour, we gave up (I think I’ll visit Paris in the middle of winter, and visit the catacombs then).

Anyways, we had gotten Starbucks coupon thingies…so we went to Starbucks and borrowed their wifi at the same time.

We borrowed Wifi so as to find this thing we had heard of called the “I Love You Wall”, which we then visited. It’s awesome! Basically, its “I love you” written in millions and millions and millions of languages.

I took lots and lots and lots and lots of pictures and wrote down a good number of the ones that were in roman/greek ish alphabets – language obsessive’s heaven.

Jen and Heather then went off to the Museum of Erotic Art, which sounded interesting, but not interesting enough to pay 10 euro for, so, I went back to Sacre Coeur and took the same route that Nino takes in the movie Amelie to get to the top (when she leads him with arrows and then puts his photobook in his bike…) tiring, but fun. I even looked through the telescope thing (have to reenact everything) and was disappointed to find that didn’t actually ever point low enough to see the square, like in the movie. Oh well.

We met up at the Moulin Rouge and went off to the Café de Deux Moulins (the one from Amelie) to continue the day’s theme. It didn’t look exactly like the movie, but close enough that is was kind of magical. I got to sit next to a giant Amelie poster, near the place where Nino sits the first time he visits the café.

I got my first crème brulee ever (and got to crack it with a spoon, just like Amelie). According to Heather, the crème brulee expert, it was the best even she had ever tasted…I think I can’t ever eat crème brulee anywhere else because my expectations are so high now. It was amazing. Period. The coffee was also really good. (really really really good). Basically, a worthwhile adventure.

Then we had to say good-bye to Jen, which was really sad, because our four days of togetherness were ending. Meh.

Afterwards, I went back to Saint Michel (noticing themes in my Paris trip?) to go to the theater.

It was a Ionesco, called “La Lecon”, which was so wonderful and absurd and was a great play on language and education and creepiness (three things that are very dear to me)

My day out ended at Notre Dame, watching a group of fire spinners. This one person did poi, it was probably the best poi I have ever seen – just so graceful and artistic, on top of just making fire do awesomely cool things. The thing was also designed so that the audience wanted to watch the fire spinner as well the fire, which was cool. (Said person also did poi with fireworks, which is just awesome).

Anyways, got back late to the hostel and am now hanging out in the kitchen. I need to print my boarding pass, but the guy at reception was super rude to me earlier, so I kind of want to wait for the next person to come on duty, but its also becoming kind of last minute and whoever ends up helping me will be rude because I should have done it before…oh well, such is life.