We started off the day by visiting the farmers market on Rue de Renne, which my parents compared to "an open air Walmart" so they enjoyed it. Then we took the metro to see Sainte-chapelle. I'd already been, but it's really that impressive to visit more than once. My parents loved it!
Then we went to mass at Notre Dame, which was pretty neat. It was the "international" mass, and while the website says that means part of it would be in English, none of it actually was. However there were parts in Spanish and Italian, so it was International in that regard.
We had lunch at a cafe near Notre Dame, and then headed off to the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately I had bought ticket ahead of time to ensure we got a good elevator time to get there while it was still daylight, but late enough where it would turn to dusk to see all the lights. And while the weather forecast kept saying all week it would be only "partly cloudy" on Sunday, and rainy every single other day, it turned out that it was the only day of the entire week they were here that it was completely fogged in. So you could only go up to the second level, as the very top was closed since it was completely fogged in. And the views from that second level were really disappointing. Needless to say the standby line was by far the shortest I'd ever seen it. I had gambled, and I had lost. But at least they got to go up the tower, and we got some souvenirs from both the tower and from the street vendors that circle it down below. There were way less people than normal, and even the three card monte scammers I'd seen during the Christmas time were gone.
We finished the night with some crepes, which my parents loved.
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