After taking my family in the EXACT OPPOSITE direction as we were supposed to go, we still managed to get to the Lourve for our 9:30am entrance time... Of course it did not end well for several reasons. I would say the most anxiety inducing was that Jensen and his buddy Rhys went off and disappeared on the way to see "The Moaning Lisa". When I had finished hyperventilating and cursing myself for not scrawling my phone number on his chest with my Sharpie, they wandered back to us and we proceeded to view the painting. There were not too many people this early but I could hear Jensen audibly sigh in disappointment. I said, "Is the painting smaller than you thought it would be? That is what I thought too the first time I was here." His response, "The painting? Oh. no that's okay. You just told me there were guards around it and even though there are four of them, they are just sitting and talking to each other and none of them have big guns!" Perhaps a military museum would have been a better choice because when A LOT of machine gun clad soldiers came marching down the stairs at the Lourve entrance, I have never seen a child so excited in a museum! Fortunately the only thing it cost us was time because the kids were free. For my 15 euros I was treated to an entire hour of racing though one amazing room to another with the lovely background music in a tone of B "whiner" of "Is this the last room?"
After the children LITERALLY collapsing on the floor of the entrance cafe, we loaded them with a bit of sustenance and went in search of lunch. From there we headed back to our "luxury closet" and tried to regroup and rest with our second showers of the day. (Thank goodness there is no drought here as it is a "three shower a day" city because of the heat and walking around.
Refusing to give up on the metro we managed to get to the Seine boat tour just fine! We had booked a tour with Green River Tours (HIGHLY recommend them!) We had two boats and of course the adult boat came with a barstool bar and two bottles of wine! Woo! Hoo! Best part of the day! It was the perfect way to enjoy an afternoon. Thank goodness for Jessica Founds, as she had the foresight to bring extra wine, french bread, and cheese. I think the teenagers liked it as well but all 6 of them were on the other boat so there was not a single opportunity to complain! Well planned!
After the boat tour we strolled along the river and had an outstanding dinner, again with two tables.... one with the seven adults and another across the restaurant with the 8 kids! I suspect they also prefer it that way.
Tomorrow we head to the Eiffel Tower and our last day in Paris.
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