We got the cutest table! Upstairs, right next to the fireplace, in the most beautiful room! It was all so parfait! Laduree is like a giant, Parisan mansion. A series of fancy little rooms, connected by hallways lined with portraits. It's very adorable.
Just as we were sitting there, enjoying the prissy-ness and fancy-ness surroundingus, we saw a grey thing dash across the floor...
Grey dashes were ALL too familiar to me to not know what it was! A MOUSE! In Laduree! Oh mon Dieu!
I could not believe it! Only us and another table saw it at first, running from one side of the room to the other. As we were starring at each other, exchanging looks of disbelief - the guy said to me "its under your chair, right now. Right by your feet - don't move!
You can imagine..... I FREAKED OUT! I jumped out of my chair nearly screaming "there's a mouse!" to everyone in our little room. What is even odder than seeing a mouse IN Laduree, is that no one cared! All the Parisians were just as unemotional and nonchalant as ever!
One woman said "Ohh, itz juzt Ratoutille! He iz cooking downztairz!"
Another said "Don't whurry - all zee reztaurantz in Pariz have zee mice"
Ohhhh, Merci Madame! HOW REASURING!
Despite my pounding heartbeat, and memory flashbacks our own Rataouille problems this past September - I decided to pull it together, because eating at Laduree has been a dream of mine, and I wasn't going to let Ratatouille ruin it. So I kept my feet raised off the ground for the duration of our tea, which resulted in a killer ab workout, that came in handy as we were eating our 8 macarons.
I read the tea menu to find a tea called "Marie Antoinette." Bonjour, parfait! So I got the "Marie Antoinette" tea of course! I LOVE that they have that! And - it was actually delicious! I usually don't like the actual tea drinking part of having tea - but when Marie Antoinette is involved - of course I amgoing to love it!
We had some macarons, of course! Pistache, Framboise, Fruits Rouge, and Chocolat Noir. They were all aaaamazing! For main course, we ordered a grand macaron pommes caramel and a religeuse a la violette!
The macaron was magnifique! Filled with roasted apples, and caramel creme. The religeuse was the first I've had in Paris! And it was incroyable! I LOVED violet-flavored things! The taste is so unique! When Josh was here we had the most amazing violet ice cream with a chocolate mi-cuit. It was out of control delicious. And so was this!
It was like a little violet tower of yumminess! We sat sipping our tea and savoring every bite of our cakes as the lights of the Champs Elysees went on and were visible through all the windows, sparkling away and lining the street.
Our waitor was veryyyy magnifique because he brought us 4 more free macarons, "becauze of zee mouze." It was tres nice of him! I must admit, the sight of the mouse was well worth the 4 free macarons! Maybe our mouse relocated to Laduree once we installed the electro-cat - he was pretty smart! It would make sense to me, really. If I was a mouse, I would want to live in Laduree.
After our very prissy and very Parisian tea time, we walked over to Trocerado to see the marche du noel by the Eiffel Tower! There was an ice rink set up there too! I nearly flipped out! Skating in front of the sparkling tour! Can you think of anything more wonderful? I am so doing it my last night here, post camp-out.
The market was very adorable, and full of delicious looking things - just like the other one! But, they get bonus points for playing the Carpenter's Christmas album. And being right in front of the Eiffel Tower! I LOVE Christmas in Paris! It just keeps getting better and more beautiful, everyday!
So, next our list is afternoon tea at Marriage Freres, which is almost equally famous and right on our street! But this time, I am going to inform Rataouille that he is NOT invited to join us!
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