Busy Weekend

Some pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night and walking around Paris.

Pictures from the children's garden.

Carson and Mommy riding the train.

Riding in the boats.

Riding rides in the Carnival area.

Swinging with Daddy.

Walking through the garden areas.

This weekend was filled with running around, looking for places, getting lost on the trains, date night and a day at the park for Carson. We woke up on Saturday with the intentions to find the Lennen School. It's a bilingual preschool school we are looking to put Carson in a few hours a day 4 days a week. Then we wanted to walk around and check out another shopping area close to our house and hit up the Casino (not to gamble....the Casino is a grocery store close to our apartment). We headed out that morning, maps in hand to find the Lennen School first. We rode metro line 1 and then hopped on metro line 13. We found the school pretty easily and walked around the area to check it out. I then decided that I wanted to take another train line home to see if it would be faster. The line it called the RER and Ryan and I are not familiar with how that line works. Long story short we got on the train going in the wrong direction and to fix our mistake it look us another couple of hours to get home, so that was pretty much our day. More sight seeing and the Casino would have to wait.

That night Ryan and I had a date night. Our new babysitter, Anna, came over to watch Carson. Ryan and I headed to the Eiffel Tower first. At night they have it lit up bright blue and it sparkles silver every hour on the hour. We went up to the middle section to see the lights of Paris at night. It was pretty spectacular. After the tower Ryan and I had dinner out before heading home. It was nice to get out and enjoy Paris on our own for a little bit. Anna said Carson was "as good as gold" and even requested a kiss from her before he went off to bed! He's a lover!
Sunday was all about Carson. We took him to Le Jardin d'Acclimatation. It is a children's park close to our house. It was much bigger than I expected and was so much fun for Carson. The park has a carnival area with tons of ride, a small zoo/petting zoo, pony rides, 6 different play areas with playgrounds and sand pits, gardens, zip line/tunnel area, boat rides and a train. We did it all! Carson had a wonderful time and the day tired him out for a long nap! Another great weekend in Paris!