Bonjour tristesse. We leave Paris on Saturday. Off to Berlin! It will be nice to sit down for 6 weeks and really get to know a city but I am already missing the monument to individualism that is Paris. I adore walking around and looking inside all the shops and admiring what each shopkeeper chooses to put center stage in their window. No matter what it is - a chair, a wedding dress, a chocolate, a shoe - it is unique and perfectly crafted. It seems that all here appreciate the unique, the unusual, the slightly different. Maybe that's why they become so frustrated with us Americans who are always trying to find the common thread.
We spent today fighting the crowds at Versailles. A monument to vanity and excess. Marie Antointte's house was charming however and we took a lovely rowboat ride on the grand canals. But for the most part the boys were NOT interested. They have no context for it and it is a bit much to make lunch, get them out there, provide a detailed history lesson that is age appropriate, eat lunch, stroll around the gardens, get the exercise, keep them away from the tourist junk and then get them home in one piece. It was a warm day and it was great to be outside and the rowboat helped. They powered through though. Tom'w = no art museums, no fancy houses, no churches. Boys get to choose.
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| Nutella crepes by Jardin du Luxenbourg. Yummy! |
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| Next to the Seine. Like cats sitting in the sun. |
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| The 21 Euro chocolate fish! Yummy! |
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| Visiting the Lizard King in Pere Lachaise! |
Au Revoir Bonheur! Nice literary reference by the way - and on to Guten Morgen Pragmatists....wonder what their shop windows will look like? That is one fine looking fish! It's the kind of fish that even Sydney would love....weather looks decidedly springish.
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