Paris Day 2

Weather report: it did not rain today. Which was good, cos it was cold enough without the rain.

We did all the touristy things today, courtesy of the open top city bus which we paid €29 each for. It is like a dummies guide to cities -- a relatively shallow but immensly convenient way to understand a new thing.

Paris is indeed a great old city that still manages to keep current in today's fast-changing world. It is very cool to see the trendiest fashion sold within the grand buildings of yesteryear. And Parisans themselves, with their great dress-sense and sharp delicate features are eye-candy too.

If there is anything Ping doesn't like about Paris, it is that Paris is a very complex city. There is far too much to do, see and understand here... the Lourve (a key museum here) alone will take days to complete! Not the best place for a relaxed holiday.

Still, we managed to fit in Ping's favourite activity of eating (snails for lunch and a "home-cooked" dinner bought in a Paris supermarket and cooked at our serviced apartment) and Wen's favourite past-time of shopping. You should have seen how Wen's eyes lit up when we reached Champs Elysee, the shopping belt of Paris!

Fortunately for us, Paris shops generally close early (8pm or thereabouts). With nothing else to buy, we happily stumbled upon Dad's favourite place -- the supermarket -- and proceeded to guess the cooking instructions on the food packs we bought.

So far so good, no stomachache yet.

But we are still unable to figure out what we should be doing with the cream brulee (dessert) except that we need to do something with it for 2 minutes.