April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day Two)

Day 2 started off very well, jet lag considered. (Paris is 6 time zones ahead of EST.) Cal woke up oddly early —at 7:30am—and was reading in bed for a few hours, and we let the little kids sleep until 9:30am before finally waking them up. They probably would have slept for another few hours had we let them, but jet lag is one of those things that I kind of feel like you just want to kind of deal with imm ediately, particularly given that we’re only going to be here for less than a week. I don’t know if this helped, but I kept the little kids’ blinds open to let in a lot of sunshine in the morning, and so while they were a little slower to rouse than usual, they managed to perk up pretty well c onsidering that their bodies felt like it was 3:30 in the morning.We headed down to the bistro on the corner to get some breakfast, and though it was nothing special at all worth mentioning, the one true benefit of the place was that it was the bistro on the corner. We got the kids some chocolat chaud and croissants, which we had promised them, and also omelets to keep them full until lunchtime. (Joe and I also had some coffee, because coffee.) Again, I don ’t think this place was particularly good, but sometimes when traveling with kids the choice of eatery in any given moment is a bit more utilitarian—we need food RIGHT NOW—than checking your Michelin guide ratings, so for that purpose it was fine.Before our trip I ’d bought a two day pass for theBatobus, which is ba...
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