Scooters, Pride parades, louvre and snails

Today we started things off the only way you can in Paris - pastries. 

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Cute place off Rivoli. There was coffee and pastries. And second coffee and pastries. We lived like hobbits.

Isabelle and I rode an e-scooter to the louvre - and lucky for us t was pride march day. So the road was car free all the way to the museum. 

Josephine and Caitlin met us there. Since we’re old hands at this now, Caitlin got her and I 6 day museum passes which lets us skip lines. Winning. 

First things first, show the girls the Mona Lisa in all it’s disappointment. 



The. Move on to the other 1.0-1.5 millions works of priceless art.   Winged victory case and point. Venus do milo. Some old pheros. A sphinx or two, I forget. Too much to remember. 






Izzy and rode home to cool off and have some grocery store microwave Tortolini. Josee and Caitlin joined later in time for us to have a nap. 

Then we finished watching Inception on th House tv (Netflix + iPhone + WiFi + lighting-2-hdmi = winning)

Then we walked 27.65 steps to Au Bouginonne du Marais. https://www.lafourchette.com/restaurant/au-bourguignon-du-marais/77650 it was amazing. The deserts were punishingly decadant. Caitlin had th creame brûlée - which was by far the most delicate of
The desserts we had. Entree were salmon tartar and escargot. 


Kids menu was basically burger and fries without the bun. 


Isabelle ate one escargot and some salmon Tartar - reward for which was a Pez dispenser each. 


Parenting is knowing when to bribe and when to stand firm. 

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