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One of the reasons I love Paris so much is because I feel like you're so disconnected from the world almost because you're so far away from home and no one knows who you are. Like, no. A couple people were so nice and said hi. But like, you're so disconnected from your normal day to day that it just feels like you're living on a different planet. And I love it. And it's so beautiful. Everyone always says, like, Paris is dirty and smelly. I'm like, have you been a New York City? Paris is not dirty or smelly if you're in the right areas. But like, I'll walk down the streets of New York City and I'll see literally a pile of human on the ground and they're like, oh, yeah, you shouldn't be walking around New York City in sandals because the floor is so dirty. So I'm telling you, if you can handle New York City, you would love Paris. Every corner is beautiful. Every building is from like the 1800s, has so much character, is so stunning, and I just love it. It's truly, truly one of my favorite places in the world. If it wasn't so far, I would love to have a flat there. But realistically, I'm like, I can't get that much use out of it. And I'm not ready to take my children that far yet. They're not ready to handle the time change. Stevie can barely handle a full day at Disney without a meltdown. I can't even imagine her on a 12 hour flight. It would be a nightmare. But I'm thinking when they're like 7 and 9, I'll probably take them because Stevie's favorite food's a chocolate croissant and Ziggy's obsessed with the Eiffel Tower. So we'll go at some point. Just not yet. One of my favorite meals that we had in Paris was actually at a sushi restaurant, which I know it's cliche, but it was Just a different vibe. You guys. Like, the fish was so fresh. It had the best drinks. And actually, Macaulay Culkin's brother was sitting at the bar, and I was trying to tell David, and he's like, I don't know who that is. And I was like, he won an Oscar last year, and I think he was there for. He was probably there for Paris Fashion Week. There was a lot of people there for Paris Fashion Week because we would walk by and there would be, like, a Mimi show. Then there was a Givenchy show. So you'll see, like, a lot of celebrities walking around. But he was sitting at the bar by himself. And I literally googled him to show David a photo. And he was wearing the identical sweater and bracelets in the photo from the red carpet. I showed him on Google at the bar, and he's like, oh, my God, that is him. But yeah, this. This sushi restaurant we were at, I had, like, a crispy rice cake with a little bit of cream cheese and caviar on top with green onion. Oh, my God, it was amazing. It was so good. I'll have to see if I can find photos of this meal because it was literally life changing. I will say, though, I don't know what came over us. We were animals in Paris. We, since we met, we are, like, in bed at 10pm sometimes earlier. Like on Saturday night this weekend, I was asleep at 8:30pm okay. That's just the life I live. I'm very boring in Paris. We were out till one day, five in the morning. Who are we? I. I didn't even live that life in college. I didn't really live, like, a normal college life. But we were animals because, first of all, Parisians eat very late. So a lot of the times we'd be at dinner at, like, 10:30pm and then we finish at, like, 1am and they'd be like, all right, it's time to go out for a drink. And I was like, what do you mean? That was a drink? Oh, no. They want to go out to the speakeasies, to the cute little bars. Like, we went to a Four Seasons bar. It was beautiful. Best martini I've ever had. With blue cheese olives. Oh, my God. Yeah. Then we'd. We'd sleep, wake up at, like, 10am and do it all over again. But the amount of martinis I had ho. I. I'm taking a little break from drinking because I made up for it in Paris. David was drinking a lot of vodka on the rocks, and he kind of like, Newly discovered that there usually he'll do like tequila, but he was drinking vodka on the rocks and I was drinking martinis. I used to drink dirty martinis. Now I just drink martinis because I'm a big girl and if it's too dirty, it's too salty for me. So I'm growing up now that I'm in my 30s, you know, I can handle a real martini. And it was just really fun. We also went to a another restaurant called. Let me find the name. Oh, Cafe de Loam. Cafe de Loam was incredible, actually. Again, thanks to Deb and David and their friends. The female, her name's Vanille. She's actually an incredible French singer. You guys should look her up. Her music's amazing. Stevie loves listening to her because she's learning French at school and she loves the language. Actually, I think I want to start to learn French. Not like I am not busy enough, but I think the French language is so beautiful. And with Stevie learning it, I'm like, okay, I, I should probably learn it to help her and talk to her. But Vanille's aunt owns the restaurant and so they gave us literally the most beautiful view from the balcony of the restaurant. It's literally right in front of the Eiffel Tower. I can't even describe it to you. I'll put something the screen where you guys can see our view. The food was incredible. The wine was amazing. The atmosphere was amazing. The food was just blew my mind. That was another one of my favorite restaurants. One of the other things we did that I was so happy I finally got to do because the last three times we went to Paris, I was like, I really want to go. And we didn't have the opportunity was we went to see Crazy Horse. We went to a Crazy Horse show. And listen, if you know me, you know my love for Beyonce. Fun fact. Beyonce and Jay Z. It's her favorite place in the world is Paris. And Beyonce took Jay Z there on his birthday and he proposed to her. And her music video partition is based off the Crazy Horse performance. And all of the girls in that music video are from the Crazy Horse Club in Paris because she was so obsessed with them. And the way that they dance, like they're just so fly. They're so sickening. And Paris isn't weird. Like when you're in Europe, bodies are just bodies. It's not like this crazy sexual thing. There were so many couples in there. It was literally a jam packed show. And I was watching these girls and all like, I didn't go there for David. I went there for me because these girls were so, so amazing. So, yeah, the night we went to Crazy Horse is one of my favorite nights because I just wanted to see the show for years. And it was so cool to watch the performance and how it tied into the partition music video where she, like, took some notes and. Because if you watch the music video, Jay Z's, like, sitting there watching Beyonce smoking a cigar, and she's, like, on the horseback with the purple background. Like, they do that dance at Crazy Horse, and they're just amazing. So that was one of my favorite things that we did as well. It's so important for us to take trips away from the kids because we don't do it very often unless I'm traveling for work. But that's not, like a vacation. That's work obligations to make sure, you know, my family's taken care of. But it's so nice to just connect him and I uninterrupted and, like, being able to focus on that time. We've been. We've been together for 12 years, which is crazy. And we still have so much enjoyment being around each other and having that quality time. It was really, really special. One of my other favorite things about Paris is you just walk everywhere. Like, the only time we didn't walk was when we were taking the metro, and we finally got a hang of the metro system. It's very complicated there because you have to train, hop a lot, and obviously, everything's in a different language. So we really got a hang of that. Walked everywhere. The food is so much cleaner there. And, like, I was working out. I went to an amazing Pilates class that Salton Stone hosted. They messaged me because they saw I was in Paris, and they're like, hey, do you want to come to a class? It was the most beautiful Pilates studio. And then I did go to the gym because my trainer wrote me a workout plan because she's like, we have not worked this hard for you to lose all of your muscle tone and get out of shape this. These eight days that you're gone. So I brought some equipment, and I did some workouts. But you walk everywhere. You're always on your feet. So if you ever go to Paris, bring lots of comfortable shoes. But the food is so much cleaner that when you're. I literally ate a chocolate croissant every morning. But it's just different. I don't know what it is. There's not a lot of pesticides. There's not a lot of parabens. In the wines. Like you're not going to get that like crazy wine hangover the next day, even if you drink a whole bottle. My dad always says that too. Like, my dad can't handle drinking wine in the US but he'll drink it overseas because it's just, it's just different. But like, even just a baguette with some cheese and turkey, one of my favorite things to eat in Paris, it's so good. Or the gelato. Oh my God, don't even get me started. It was really cool too, as a parent seeing other parents that live in Paris. And I actually had a really cool conversation with a mom that we met at dinner. I asked her, I was like, you know, you all live in flats, like, which are essentially apartments that are beautiful by the way, but like, they don't have a yard. It's basically all sidewalks and concrete everywhere. And there's not a lot of like playgrounds. There's like parks, like with grass and stuff. There's not a lot of playgrounds. And so I asked her, like, how is that raising a child? And she was like, my kids are so independent. She was saying that her 7 year old takes the metro every day to school by himself. I was like, what? We'd be on the metro and I swear on my life there was like a first grader sitting there with his scooter. He got off the metro and he goes and rides it off to school. It was so cool to see. So I saw a lot of parents on bikes with like two bike seats behind them. They'd be biking with their kids or their kids would be on their scooters on the sidewalk. So it is such a different life. It almost reminds me of like what it would be like to raise children in New York City. Because I'll see that a lot when I go to New York is I'll see moms walking around either just like with a baby carrier or their kids on a scooter or they're riding a bike. It's just such a unique experience. And it's so different from living here in sunny California where it's like you have a backyard, your kids play outside all day, or you can go to the beach or there's a park on every corner. So but it is cool because I was talking to the mom and she was like, you just adapt to your environment. Like you just make it work and your kids adapt and adjust. And that's just what kids do. They kind of just go with the flow. This show is sponsored by Better help. Better Help is incredible, you guys. Therapy changed my life. Last year was so hard for me and Better help was the first, first move I ever took to invest in
