grace's day off

no pictures today, a short blog (your welcome mom...)

a pretty relaxing day, grace and i got out of the apt around 11:30 and headed to rue de buci for lunch at a restaurant that... of course... had potatoes. apparently when we were with diana and brian for lunch, grace spied the menu at this place and noted that they had salads... with POTATOES! and therefore made it to the top 2 places she needed to check out immediately. i of course, being the wise man in my years, nodded vigorously at her suggestions.

we ate at 'sage' where she had her salad and i had my steak with foie gras sauce.

let's dissect these meals.
her 'salad' did have potatoes, but also had a good amount of duck filets and gizzards, and a big hunk of foie gras.
my steak was covered in what looked to be a foie gras and butter sauce. plus it came with fried potatoes.

all in all, that meal set us back about... a year. or 7.

we headed over to the gorgeous park called the Luxembourg Gardens, home to the senate (they have it GOOD). it's absolutely beautiful, with newly laid tulips, and flowers everywhere. on a sunny day, i will take my dSLR and have fantastic pictures for you to all see. hang tight.

to top it all off, we headed to a famous parisian gastronomy house (i called it... by cardinal mistake... a chocolatier), called Dalloyau (i've never heard of it, of which grace was astonished. this is a common theme when it comes to all things chocolate related). she had hot chocolate and i had an espresso (that almost ate the cup it was in), and we hung out there, chatting, working on stuff (i brought my trusty mac), and enjoying paris as it should be enjoyed. relaxing.

so apparently dalloyau invented a cake called the opera cake. which is the justification that grace verbalized as to why we need to go back there again to try it out. somehow i see through all of this and i understand that there is no real reason that a woman needs to justify going back to any type of chocolatier aside from one cold hard fact...

it exists.

ahhh how i have become wise with my years...