Sewer tour, crepes, macaroons

I'm not quite sure how Quinn convinced me to go to the Sewer Tour with him... I was okay up until the point that the self guided tour led us to an area where the floors were grates and below us was the sewer... the actual, real, stinky sewer. I did, however, learn a couple of things. I found out that the Seine River doesn't just look polluted with sewer water but it actually is. Waste used to be dumped into the Seine, and even now, when there is a risk for flooding, the sewers are pumped into the Seine.

Crepes for lunch!

It turned from spring into summer overnight. It was 85+ degrees today (although it felt like 100 degrees with all the humidity!), and I could hardly stand the heat! On our walk home, we stopped by the park next to the Louvre for a nap in the shade.

I finally decided to try making macaroons. I went shopping for ingredients, aged the egg whites, and thought I was all set. When I opened the package for the "sucre en poudre," I discovered that it wasn't powdered sugar but regular granulated sugar. Oops! Since it was Sunday and all the markets were closed, I was out of luck... and so I made what I'll call "almond meringue cookies," which were pretty much macaroons with one subsituted ingredient. I made a chocolate ganache filling, and they tasted pretty darn good even if they didn't look like the macaroons in all the window fronts.