Les Parisiens

Well, what 8 year old wouldn't want to celebrate her birthday in Paris??

Although, given how the midterm school holiday worked out, we ended up in Paris a week earlier - celebrating Mamuks' birthday instead of Mudzuks', exactly...! (How did I finangle that?)

It all started with a visit to the Brussels Sprouts - here are our kids in the park while the Outlaws were in school/at work...
Then we all evenutally converged in Gay Paris (mamuks from London, the rest from Brussels, in two separate batches). We stayed in a fantastic neigbourhood-ish flat - with a convenient little parkette just outside:


But we were in Paris, afterall,


which meant...

The Louvre:

(Vecais & Annika, proud to have made it through the line for their

5 seconds with the Mona Lisa)

(Dzudzie is less impressed by Liberty Leading the People)

Les Catacombes


Lots of riding the Metro

Seeing friends of the Outlaws' (from London, of course) up by the Parc de la Villette:


And a climb up the stairs of the inimitable Tour Eiffel - "What i've wanted to do all my life!!", as Mudzuks could be heard saying, repeatedly....

(Hot chocolate with a view, mid-way up)

(Yes, that is Vecais attempting to climb the Eiffel Tour on the *outside* of the structure... before getting chased away by a security guard!)

But of course, it was Mamuks birthday, so that called for some celebration in its own right:

(I was entertained by the Three Bones')

And indulged in real Parisien cakes! Yum! (With lots of help to eat them, luckily)