No More Lindsay

Friday night Lindsay took me out to dinner and a movie since it was her last week day in Paris. We were going to go to a sushi restaurant, bu they were closed. So we went to a place that I think was called "Lyons". There we shared a really good meal. It had a bunch of mussels covered in tomato sauce, melted cheese, fries and something else that I dont know about, but it was really good anyway.

Then Lindsay took me to a candy shop and we both took a bag of candy. One thing that I got there was a huuuuuuuuuge gummy snake that was over 60 centimeters, and might have been 80. That's over two feet long!!

Then we went to the movie "National Treasure: Book of Secrets". But like most movie theaters you weren't allowed to bring food that you had not bought there, so I had to smuggle the candy in by putting it in a big pocket I had in my sweatshirt. The movie was pretty good but I still think that the first one was better.

Saturday we did not do much. But Sunday we went to the Luxembourg garden. There we found out they had tennis courts and ping pong tables, but the only problem was that we did not bring any ping pong or tennis gear with us. Then we walked around for a while, and when my brother woke up we went back to a pedal kart stand where I went rode 15 laps around a bunch of cones going as fast as I could. Then we went a a hamburger place for lunch. It was pretty bad, but it still paid off since it was the first time I had a hamburger since leaving California.

When we asked Lindsay what she wanted for her last day she asked fro fondue, so that's what we made. Except that, for some reason we don't know, the cheeese never melted quite enough. It was still good though. Tee next day Lindsay left for California, and we found out that her boyfriend proposed the day after she arrived!

Double Party

Yesterday a person who may become my babysitter came over from Roumania, or, more exactly, from Transylvania, land of the vampires!

Today, we walked around the Louvre, but not inside, and we went in the glass pyramid, but we weren't able to go around the underground castle that is underneath the Louvre, because we needed tickets and we were in a hurry. Instead we went to the Louvre gift shop and bought Lindsay a pretty necklace as a gift since she is leaving next week. Then we got her a gift card so she could got to a place called the Moulin Rouge that she has been wanting to go to for a while. We also got her a shirt of the Moulin Rouge. The Moulin Rouge is a place where there is a lot of dancing like the French cancan and stuff like that.

Then we walked alongside the Louvre for a long time, while looking for things to buy. We almost bought me a pair of boxers that had the whole metro lines on them. But the smallest size was too big for me so I could not get them. My dad said that if I bought them, from now on he would use them as a real metro map, and he would look down my pants at them when he needed to know where to go in the metro. We walked next to the Seine river for a while.

Then we came back and drove straight to my cousin Samy's for his birthday. We were half an hour late, but we were still the second group of people there! There we also had a surprise party for Lindsay. The whole thing was a lot of fun.

The Longest Line Ever

Yesterday, my grandma and her friend were there for the whole morning because they had slept over. We had breakfast with them, then the rest of the time we were in the house I played legos, that I had just received from California with all our things from there. My mom went for a haircut while I was playing. Then we went to the Jardin des Plantes, where we met my mom, my aunt, my grandma, her friend, and my aunt's friend. The Jardin des Plantes is a really big garden, and it has two museums.

We went to one of them called La Grande Gallerie de l'Evolution, which means the Great Gallery of Evolution. One of the really cool things that we saw was three different kinds of whole whale skeletons. They also showed a lot of animals that had been killed and stuffed, so you could see them as if they were real. And they had small videos about some of the animals that were there and some that weren't there.

After the museum we had crepes, then we went on to a cafe to get some drinks, then on the way back my dad went to a Chinese restaurant to get some Chinese food to eat at the house, which was really far away from the restaurant. That's when we noticed my brother's sippy cup was missing, so I had to run all the way back to the cafe to get it then run all the way back. We had not had Chinese food since being in California, except once in Barcelona.

Today we met a babysitter that might take care of me after Lindsay goes back. Then around noon we went straight to an amusement park called Jardin d'Acclimatation that my other aunt had invited us to, where we met her, her husband, my grandma, her friends, and two of my cousins that are way younger than me.

When we arrived we were really hungry as we had not had lunch, so we went to the restaurant to eat, and it took 1/2 hour just to get our food because the line was so long, Then we all went in separate directions to go to different places. My dad and I went in one direction together.

First we went to a climbing strucutre that was made entirely of ropes except for a central pole that was about 30 feet tall, with ropes all aorund it like a spiderweb going all the way up to the top of the pole. I climbed it once, then I had my dad time me twice going up it.

After that we went to a ride where there is either one chair or two chairs connected to each other that have chains on them attached to something else really high up, then, when you are in the chair, the whole thing turns and you fly really high and fast. I got a headache in it, so I did not want to go in any ride that moved fast. So we went to a place where you could remote control boats on the water, and my dad and I tried to crash each other. It was really fun!

Jardin des Tuileries

Guess what? Yesterday we found out that, during the night, the whole building night next to us caught fire and burned to smithereens, and the outside is still there, but if you look inside the windows, all it is is coal and you can't even see anything that was in there. It is all pitch black. What is even more amazing is that we did not hear any of it. Come to think of it, I did wake up and heard some weird noises but I thought I was imagining it and I went back to sleep - that could have been it.

Also, the other big news is that my babysitter who has been with us for more than two years, Lindsay, is leaving: she is going back to the US in a month. She is going to live with her boyfriend. I think she is going to get married (to him), but she does not like me saying that... We are all really going to miss her!

Today we went to the jardin des Tuileries, which is what I wrote was 5 minutes walk from home. Right when we got there, we went to play hide and seek in a bunch of hedges that we saw that weren't supposed to be a maze but that were kind of like one. Then we walked around and my brother went on a pony ride. While he was doing that, my dad was timing me climbing up a lamp post, and I think my record was 6 seconds. Then I went on trampolines practising flips. Then we went to a really big Ferris wheel to see what the whole garden looks like from above.