Champs-Élysées

After the Arc de Triomphe, we walked down Champs-Élysées, which is actually one of the streets that go to the Arc de Triomphe. It was a pretty cool street...but would definitely be more fun if you were a big spender!



Definitely a lot of people walking down this street!

Here's the Swarovski crystal store...complete with it's crystal staircase. I was walking around Mannheim today, and Mannheim also has a Swarovski store...with it's own crystal staircase. Take that Paris!

This here is actually inside the McDonalds. We didn't buy anything, but we did use the restrooms, lol. Those machines at the back of the picture are machines that you can order from--you can change the language to whatever language you prefer. That's one way to make sure you order what you want!

There were actually a couple of car stores/dealerships down this street as well. This is Mercedes, but there was a Toyota store as well as a BMW one I believe.

 Complete with a car showroom...wonder if all the cars were high end?

The Abercrombie and Fitch store was definitely cool...overstated, but cool. But the prices here are even worse than the ones back home. 89e for a regular pair of pants? I'm not buying...

The gates were definitely pretty impressive. And they had a lot of employees leading the way...all wearing A&F jackets of course. (I wonder if they made them buy them themselves?...)

 The garden on the way to the store...a regular entrance would be too plebeian you know.

 Inside the store. Sorry it's blurry...I didn't have my flash on, and they don't like you taking pictures inside...bleh. But as you can see, it's multiple stores (but still has that overpowering smell...and considering I thought it was overpowering and I had had a stuffy nose...it was waay too much)

After that, we went back to the train station, and back to Mannheim! I was definitely glad to go back. :)

 Paris Train Station

And of course, since we were first class, we got food. Score! Chicken (that actually looks like chicken!) with couscous, veggies, a roll, and some orange juice. Yummy.