Day 10 - Paris ( Sun. 19 Jul)
We went to Eileen's and Benoit's again on Sunday morning. We went to Versailles Sunday Market bought some food for lunch and french goodies to bring home to Hong Kong as gifts for friends and families. The boys like going to their home. They had Wii and so we spend 1/2 the day enjoying a typical long and leisurely Sunday lunch with our friends while the boys played.
We went to Eileen's and Benoit's again on Sunday morning. We went to Versailles Sunday Market bought some food for lunch and french goodies to bring home to Hong Kong as gifts for friends and families. The boys like going to their home. They had Wii and so we spend 1/2 the day enjoying a typical long and leisurely Sunday lunch with our friends while the boys played.
I was beginning to get very restless by 2pm just after lunch ended so we bid our friends a heartfelt goodbye as they drop us at the Invalides (army museum). Our boys who were into guns were quite excited to visit this museum and were attentive at most of its displays of past and current weapons of war. I had hope as I brief them the devastation of war that they realise that people die, someone daddy, son, brother died on these weapons that they are so in awe of. I know boys will be boys but I guess its my job to pepper their enthusiasm with a little bit of reality......
Still after hours of me taking pictures of them with the many many guns that was displayed in this museum my patience was at its tethers. It was appropriate at that time we were at the second world war wing were there was a big picture of the atomic bomb explosion and my husband said so this is how world war 2 ended ......yes I said after many many people died, many people lost their daddy, their mummy, their child......
I must say this war museum is much better than the one in London. Bigger and with much more items displayed it covered centuries and the 2 major wars. It manage to capture my normally restless boys attention.
I must say this war museum is much better than the one in London. Bigger and with much more items displayed it covered centuries and the 2 major wars. It manage to capture my normally restless boys attention.
Napoleon's Tomb
Peter and I took the boys back to the Tuileries fair. Since its late in the afternoon the crowds were much bigger so it was harder to keep an eye on them. The boys won more guns to bring home and I was getting worried how I would get this very realistic looking firearms through customs.
After a quick dinner at a cafe somewhere near the fair we head back home. I had a long night ahead of me as I needed to do some packing and prepare for our last day in Paris.
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