When do you go home, OP?

Did you get to see any celebrities? Like Tom Cruise or Snoop Dog?

I want to hear too, OP! I’m the person who asked what people are wearing, so thank you for reporting back!
Please keep the updates coming!

Anonymous wrote:No one cares OP. If you want to write stuff like this, start a blog.

I care. OP tell us as much as you want.

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Anonymous wrote:We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Agreed. Why start a brand new thread?

Op is one of those people that thinks everyone is fascinated by her life and is jealous of her.

Just go away. I want to hear about her trip.

+1

No one cares OP. If you want to write stuff like this, start a blog.

My goodness, the subject line is quite clear. Don’t click on her post if you don’t want to read it.

I’m appreciative of her reports. I thin it’s nice to hear her perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Agreed. Why start a brand new thread?

Op is one of those people that thinks everyone is fascinated by her life and is jealous of her.

Dear Diary, Today was SOOOO EXCITING!!! Everyone must hear about every minute!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Agreed. Why start a brand new thread?

Op is one of those people that thinks everyone is fascinated by her life and is jealous of her.

Just go away. I want to hear about her trip.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Agreed. Why start a brand new thread?

Op is one of those people that thinks everyone is fascinated by her life and is jealous of her.

Anonymous wrote:We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Agreed. Why start a brand new thread?

We do not need new daily threads. You can post this in the existing Day 1 thread you started.

Out of curiosity, how much did your airbnb cost (ballpark) and when did you book it?

Likely a shorter version, because I just wrote about our day and then accidently hit reload on the phone, losing everything.

We headed out early, to the Urban Project (new to the Olympic events - 3 on 3 basketball, skateboarding, I don't know what else), but never made it. The line to enter was crazy long, so we went to go see the nearby Olympic Torch.

We hadn't seen it opening night except on the screens, and it's really cool, even on the ground. We want to try and go back to see the flames at night, but I don't know if we will actually get to that. From there, the Louvre was in our sight lines, so even though we didn't have tickets, we headed over to explore the out door area and architecture.

Then back to the Urban Project, where the lines were still crazy. We decided to bail, and walk to the Arc de Triomphe. We stopped on a bridge across the Seine, where there were violin players, accordian players and more, and enjoyed the gorgeous weather and the lunch we brought from our neighborhood (cheese, bread, meats, fruit and of course some pastries). A bit later, along the Champs-Élysées, we stopped for espressos (us) and hot chocolates (kids).

Eventually, we headed to the metro to our next ticketed event. I know someone said the Paris metro is filthy, but they must have cleaned it up for the Olympics, because it is clean. There are public toilets and water bottle filling stations, and it's just easy.

When we bought all of our tickets through the lottery, we had no idea who we would be seeing (what athletes/countries), we just picked sporting events. Today it was soccer, and ended up Brazil v Japan. Marta played most of the game (and was yellow carded early), and it was a fun and exciting game. The Brazil crowd was louder, but from our vantage point, it seemed the crowd was pretty much split (Japan ended up winning, 2-1, even though with just a few minutes left in regulation it was 1-0 Brazil).

They claim this is the most sustainable Olympics. They encourage you to bring refillable water bottles, and to refill them. They recycle all beverage bottles (partly by forcing you to use a reusable cup), and we've been reusing and refilling.

Dinner was at a brasserie near our AirBnB and simple and delicious.

Someone asked what everyone here is wearing, and the answer is anything goes. I've seen lots of Parisians (always nicely dressed, women with makeup and good shoes, and always good posture). And tourists, in shorts and t-shirts, in summer dresses, in long cotton skirts and short, short skirts, in patterned tops and bottoms (shorts/skirts/pants), lots of crop tops on all different size bodies, and almost all tourists are in sneakers (which makes sense because we spend ao much time in line and walking).