This morning I had some of the most epic oats ever.
Cookie dough mocha oats to be more exact!

On the stove, I combined:
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Oats + soymilk + 2 egg whites
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Spoonful of cocoa powder at end
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Spoonful of instant coffee at end
Topped off with a nice blob of PB, chocolate almond butter…

And a great big blob of chocolate chip cookie dough (I have in the fridge to make for a friend’s birthday).

Wowowowowowowow!!!!!! I was once on a huge cocoa oats kick (especially cocoa peppermint oats), but the coffee powder kicked it up a notch. And cookie dough combined made it food-orgasmic!
(Yes I do eat raw cookie dough occasionally whenever I can get my hands on it
I know the whole raw egg thing is a huge scare to people, but I can’t help I like dough better than the actual baked good!)
It’s now time for London Flashback Part 2 – Paris Edition! (Missed part 1? Check out last Friday).
After the first week, my sister and I took a 3-day trip to Paris. I’d always dreamt of visiting Paris, so knew I need to take advantage of being so close to it.
We traveled on the Chunnel – an extremely fast train that goes from London to Paris.

And walked to our hotel -

Which had a lovely view of the River Siene.

Right away, we got dressed and ready to begin our 2 1/2 day Power-Paris trip!
First, we made our way to the Notre Dame.


Unfortunately, it was closed that day and we couldn’t go inside
I don’t remember the reason. But we made a pit stop a few days later to check out the inside

Hunchback Quasimodo’s friends

We just wandered around, not exactly knowing where we were going! I think we were looking for a Metro stop so we could hop on it.
We found the Holocaust memorial.

This picture screams Paris to me – I think it might be the shirt? haha. All I need is a beret!

Came across a very denim family.

Finally made our way to Sacre Coeur.
Can you spot me?

I ran up into the crowd to pose for a picture like “Where’s Waldo?”

I think it was the shirt
Beautiful view of the city from the top of the hill.

We walked around up there for a bit.

There was quite little village…town?

Lost?

When in Rome When in Paris – must have gelato!

Remember my mug that my sister painted me?

Well this is where we saw the painting that she copied!

Afterwards, we took the Metro back to see the Arc de Triomphe.
Enjoyed the weird intersections.

We hung around on that street for HOURS waiting for it to get dark! By 10:00, we gave up – this is as dark as it got! Crazy how light it stays there so late due to the prime meridian!

The next day, we decided to travel to the palace of Versailles.


The gardens were insane!!!!

I can’t even put into words how big their “backyard” was!

They got all the way back to the teeny tiniest end of this photo…

We walked all the way there – where I got my first crepe at a food stand!

And then continued even more onward to Marie Antoinette’s summer house! Yes, she had her own “summer house” on the same property as her palace. Recognize it from the movie Marie Antoinette?

After this loooonnngggg day of walking (hours and hours and hours straight), we hit up the Eiffel Tower!


My sister was beyond exhausted, so she ended up heading back to the hotel. But I knew I couldn’t travel to Paris and not climb to the top of the tower!

It was windy at the tippy top!!

Hello America!!

It was dark by the time I got down, and the tower was ablaze! I had to walk far enough away to get a picture.

It’s hard to see in the picture, but it had white lights all over that twinkled – beautiful!

It was absolutely breathtaking and I stood there forever just not wanting to leave. I was underneith the Eiffel Tower!!! Holy cow!! The Eiffel Tower!
One thing is for certain, I came back that night and crashed. Never had I ever walked that far in one day from 8 am – 11 pm straight!
We were leaving in the afternoon of the next day, but wanted to fit in a quick visit to The Louvre of course!

Everyone was taking pictures inside, including of the Mona Lisa. I felt bad thought (since technically you shouldn’t be taking pictures!), so refrained.
I also found Diet Coke with Orange! Knew I needed to buy such a thing and test it out.

Gulp gulp!

Hmmm….tasty! Similar to the lemon flavor.

Tiny European car!

And my first crepe was soooooo good, I knew I needed another to finish off the trip

Paris was honestly so rush rush rush – it’s almost a blur! We tried to cram everything in, but I really want to travel back one day! It was also such a great experience since it was really my first trip alone in another city – a foreign city! Quite the experience
London trip part 3 coming next time