Paris - Day 3

A slow start this morning getting our stuff organized and of course having a croissant. We made our way to the Marche d'aligre which is a fruit and veggie market surrounded by a couple butchers and cheese shops. We picked up strawberries, mangos, bananas, an avocado, I accidentally purchased what I thought were big snap peas but weren't, a huge orange and a tiny apricot (that one was free). We then picked up cheese, a baguette, rose wine and prosciutto. We brought our goods to Parc de Bercy.

It was all so good! We crossed over a really cool bridge called Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvior that lead straight from the park to the bibliotheque nationale de France, which holds some 10 million works and 260 miles of shelves divided between four huge tours and connected by a big deck that has a forest in the middle. Fancy right?

It's literally tall trees and unkept tall grasses in the middle of a library!

I'd also like to say that Parisians really like sleeping, like passed out sleeping, in public areas. Anyways, we had an exciting reason to rush back to our hotel.. TO GET READY FOR OUR RIHANNA CONCERT! I inhaled a super yummy quiche on the way to Brea's hotel, but we were literally dancing/running because we were so excited to get there! 

Arin and Paige's roommate, Brea, hooked us up with AMAZING backstage, VIP, ground floor tickets and passes for Rihanna in the stade de France.

This stadium was HUGE and originally made for the World Cup. The ground floor alone and 27,000 people!

We got to go to the VIP party and get free drinks while we watched the opening act David Guetta, who could have be a headliner alone!

After that we went to our amazing spots on the floor!

It was so close and surround by super enthusiastic fans! It was the perfect combination!

She was absolutely awesome!! I felt so so so so lucky!! After the show we went to the Budweiser after party until Bri's dad was done with his work and our car arrived. 

We just BARELY missed Rihanna! She had just walked out of the hall into her dressing room as we walked by! We did however see Ms J from America's Next Top Model!!

Such a fun night... The only problem was our airport shuttle was picking us 4:30am. Refer to the next post for the details.