Back to Luxemburg

After a good night of not sleeping, Beth cooked us some tasty breakfast (Omelet for me, eggs for Ben and her, French Toast and bacon for all!), and we half-halfheartedly headed out to the Jardin du Luxemburg.

We weren't quite sure we wanted to put in the effort of traveling that far, since we knew that the ride back could be gruesome.

Nevertheless, we chanced it, and good thing we did!

We found a pay-for-entry park in the back corner that I had heard about before and had a great time! It's really sad though that in order for your kid to play, you have to pay for 2 of the more interesting parks in Paris. I guess poor kids are encouraged to live a life of hustling tourists with coin tricks rather than mingle with the other ill mannered Parisian children. And people look at me like I'm crazy for not thinking Paris is the best place in the world.

There was a ton of cool play equipment, but of course Ben headed right for the sand box. Luckily I was able to persuade him to play on some of the equipment for a little bit; then he headed back to the sandbox.

He got bored after a bit though when another kid came along and ripped the toys he was playing with out of his hands. His mom was about 5 feet away watching, but on the phone.

So then we went over to the 7 year old play equipment, which was even cooler, and Ben had a fun time going through all the tunnels.

Beth brought a snack, so he had some applesauce and a chewy granola bar before we went into that park area, and then a glass of water after, so the ride home wasn't as bad as we thought it would be. In fact, it was just fine!

Ben took a nice three hour nap, and Beth got about 2 after our lunch. After about 2 hours of sleeping, Ben woke up a little, so I went and laid next to him and he went back to sleep for another hour. I almost fell asleep, which would have been good, but his nose was a little stuffy, so he was going back and forth between soft breathing and little toddler snores.