No school + Restless kids = Hell on Earth
Considering my expectations for the week, it actually went very well.
Tuesday = 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower
By the end of the day 9:30-2:00pm the kids happily, ha, took a nap…so I got a nice 2.5 hour break…
Wednesday = stealthily avoided the day’s adventure
Not intentionally…I never got an official time of departure, and as we all know if I don’t have something specific to wake up for, greed sets in and I hoard my hours of doze. So I missed the boat for visiting Montparnasse Tower – a large building that you can go to the top of for a view much like the Eiffel Tower…My absence allowed me to go get some much needed black boots so I can’t complain…
Thursday = BATOBUS + Jardin des Plantes
The Batobus is a tourist boat ride on the Seine that makes stops at ‘famous’ places so all the tourists can gape and gawk…
We got off at Jardin des Plantes which is a fairly large park with a small zoo, small museums, and botanical gardens. I think as much time as we spent seeing things we spent an equal amount of time standing in line – which is not fun with 2 and 4 yr old energy magnets.
First we had a ‘picnic’ which was more sitting on a bench eating a few slices of chicken slapped on the French version of white bread and a Go-gurt…it was a disgrace to the word picnic and I gravely apologize.
So then we go stand in line for the Paleontology Museum because they have a HUGE dinosaur skeleton inside – SO something the mom would take the kids to see – but to me it wasn’t worth the wait AT ALL! It was just one large banquet room lined with thousands of prehistoric animals and their collectives which was cool to see but apparently the dino room was closed and the tykes can’t appreciate a bunch of bones so it was a short-lived tour and we moved onto the zoo.
By this time the kids were hitting the struggle to fight off their low batteries so we had a few ornery episodes while waiting in line for the zoo.
The zoo is the oldest in the world I think – it first contained all the animals at the menagerie in Versailles – it’s a pretty cool concept though – having a quieter, more intimate zoo located in the midst of Paris so one can escape the big city life for a few hours. However, I had a bit of an internal qualm with this…I’m usually not affected by the animal rights scene but this zoo did make me wonder if this was the right thing. Since it was small there wasn’t alot of roaming room for the animals which bothered me and it seemed slightly claustrophobic for them and also their living conditions didn’t seem ideal. It wasn’t dirty per se, but their man-made habitats were slack-a-lacking…
They had a mini animal farm and kids were feeding the goats dried leaves off the ground…..I’m pr-etty sure goats don’t eat dead leaves…
After the zoo we made a stop at McDonald’s for a snack and then headed back on the boat to go home. Thank God this day was over! It was way too long for me lol - 9:30-5:30pm. All I wanted to do when I got home was crawl up in a ball in my room and disappear from the world.
Haha the funniest thing though was a bird shit on Amos’ head lol…he didn’t seem too bothered by it so I can laugh
Friday everyone laid low. Recuperation day (in more than one way right mom?) :)
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