Orsay and Sleep running.

Austin standing on a hanging walkway was a bit nervous.

 Woke up yesterday and decided to go out.  I decided I was either going to take the boys or the girls and asked who wanted to go and because Austin and Jackson said they wanted to stay here(presumably because they wanted to stay here and watch movies and play games) Todd informed them they they were going.  One day they will learn how this works.   I am not very good at making plans, I am more of a plan as you go person so I was undecided about where I was taking the boys but was planning on either going to the Invalids which is where Napoleon is buried and they have a military museum, or the Orsay Museum.  We started to walk and we were blessed with Austin's persistent complaining about having to go out.  He informed me that if he got cancer from all the second hand smoke he was having to inhale while walking it would be my fault, and that I was not as good at comforting him when he was upset as Nana is.  Again, one day he will learn how this works.

Ya, it's still raining.

 So we walked and walked and I started to talk about Van Gough and how he cut his ear off and that got their attention.  I tried to pull up some art history from the depths of my memory but apparently I have dumped a lot of that data.  All they really wanted to hear about was why he cut his ear off so I decided we would go check out the Orsay.  It is a very cool museum.  It is in an old train station, that has been converted.  It is no where the size of the Louvre but has great impressionistic paintings which are some of my favorite.  The boys liked the big clocks, oh did I mention that in an effort to get them interested I also told them this was the train station in the movie Hugo...so the clocks were a big hit.  You cannot take pictures in the museum of the art  so that was a bummer. We hustled through taking in some of the more known pieces.  At the top floor there is a huge glass faced clock that you can look out and see the river and Paris.  We then left having left the priceless works of art still unharmed and went outside to grab a bite.  The boys like hot dogs.  Which are a hot dog in a baguette, how Parisian.  So we sat on the steps and had lunch.  We then waked back home.  Todd and the girls had gone to McDonalds, he's now their hero.  He also took them to a park.

Crepes on the Rue Cler

 

Playing catch in the dark can be a bit hard

 So I laid down with the girls to get them to go to sleep and knowing I too would fall asleep set my alarm so I would wake in time to go for a run.  I got up and went out to run but I was still so sleepy that I think I slept through the first half of it.  I got back made dinner and then realized even though it was 9pm we were hours from getting anyone to sleep.  So Todd had the idea to go to the Eiffel tower and watch the light show.  Austin again, complained the whole way there. He suggested that going to the park was "death" and  complained again, about the dust and it's effect on his asthma...5 minutes after we got there he was laughing and enjoying himself in the place of "death." Poor kid.

I posted this picture on Facebook of the Paris parking job.  As funny as this is it is not at all unusual.  In fact I would say about 10-20% of all parked cars are in no position to be moved.  Just makes me glad we didn't get a car.

 

 I kept running by this guy thinking he looked familiar, and after I woke up on my run yesterday I stopped to see who it was...It's Thomas Jefferson.  I swear they have more statues of Americans here than anyone else.  Benjamin Franklin is on the other side of the river.

We have these mini magnets that Jackson is making jewelry out of his collection of bottle caps with.

I knew full well when I took this that Todd's comment would be "I thought you were out on a run?" He did not disappoint.