It was lunchtime when we got done with the Louvre, so we followed Rick Steve’s suggestion on where to eat and found Café Le Nemour. Our lunch was mostly Croque Monsieur (a fancy French ham and cheese sandwich) except Alex got Croque Madame (ham and cheese sandwich with an egg on top that is).
From the restaurant, we walked towards Tuileries Gardens for a breath of fresh air. They are the gardens that are really close to the Louvre.
That’s what it looks like when you are visiting the gardens on November 29th.
But the kids were not looking for green leaves and beautiful flowers—they were hoping to find a playground. That did not happen, actually (as we were meeting Olia and her kids by the Arc de Triumph shortly after). Instead, as the boys walked up to the fountain, they saw that you could rent a wooden boat and a stick and push it around the “pond”. They begged us to let them do it and were in shock when we said “yes” (I had been planning on it all along though since I knew that the boats would be there on a Saturday).
They loved the boats!
Two euros for twenty minutes..these guys could be making some serious money during summer months.
Let me tell you, this is what posh life looks like-haha. Sitting (or lying down like Katya is) in Luxemburg gardens in Paris as your kids play near the fountain.
I imagine this place is just gorgeous when trees and flowers are in full bloom. Hmmm, maybe we’ll have to go back to Paris when it’s warmer.
To be continued …. (one last time).
Lyana.
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