Today we all slept in which was glorious and much needed after a few days of touring. We got up, packed up, and left our stuff with the hotel as we went out for our last day of seeing Paris.
Our first stop was Angelina's. I heard about this place from several people and was told I MUST try their macaroons. Say no more, we were there!
Look at all the pretty pastries. Seriously everything in Paris is just so dainty, and pretty.
I love it.
I loved this little shop with all it's pretty desserts and sweets. So so fun. They also have a tea room where you can get breakfast and lunch. Would be so fun for a couples trip, or a girls only trip. But since I am surrounded by burly boys, I didn't think they would go for a fancy tea time lunch.
Famous macaroons...
Pretty, pretty!
We had so much fun picking out a box of macaroons. They have all different flavors and the boys got to pick a few and Todd and I picked our faves. Fun memory.
Tada! Finished pretty product. I love pretty wrapped boxes!
After we went to Angelina's we stopped and grabbed some brunch. I ordered my favorite french food, monsieur croquette and onion soup. Delicious.
The serve "french mustard" with their salt and pepper...
you can also see Todd's sandwich in the background.
Thatcher ordered an omelet every single day we have been here...he is one funny kiddo.
After we ate, we took a walk through the tuileries gardens and then over to the war museum and Napoleon's Tomb.
Here is the outside of the war museum, we just wandered around for a minute...
This is a church connected to Napoleon's Tomb...
Outside the church that houses Napoleon, beautiful building.
Brotherly hugging.
Looking up at the cupola. I only know what that is called in Italian, what is it? Dome?
And here is is, Napoleon is inside that red thing, within like 6 more caskets.
Pretty crazy...
The boys thought this was pretty cool, Thatcher wanted to make sure and have his picture taken by Napoleon. Kinda freaky when you think about it.
After we saw the tomb, we took a taxi over to see the pantheon. When we got there the dome or cupola or whatever you call it was under construction which was a bummer because Todd and the boys really wanted to see the Foucault pendulum, but since the Pantheon is under construction, it is being stored away somewhere.
Such a cool church though, with lots of great history...
And here we are, me and the boys...love these pics so much, they always remind me how cool it is that we get to show our kids this stuff.
After taking a peek inside the pantheon we hurried across the street to the Luxembourg gardens. They were gorgeous.
Here is what we saw when we first came in...
The green and the flowers and the scenery is so amazing.
They have this cute little pond in the middle where you can rent boats to float across.
Here are the boys with their boats, they were so excited to do this.
You can see Luxembourg Palace in the background.
Tagg's is off!
You can direct the boats and push it with these sticks.
Thatcher's turn!
It was seriously a highlight of our trip, this little moment with the boats. The boys loved it.
While the boys played with the boats, Tate wanted out to see the fun for himself. After a bit he discovered the sand stuff on the ground and made a huge mess and I let him because I am that kind of Mom now...
While the boys played I snapped a few pics of the amazing, breathtaking scenery.
Loved it so much.
Selfie!
After playing at Luxembourg gardens for WAY too long we rushed back to our hotel to pick up our things so we could head to the train station.
We hurried grabbed a taxi to the train station and when we got there we were behind schedule a little bit. We rushed through customs and the passport control place, and thought we made it just in time, but we didn't! The train seriously left 10 minutes early!! It was CRAZY. A whole bunch of tourists that were supposed to be on that train had also missed it and so we waited around for the Eurostar people to fix this gigantic problem.
Luckily, we got bumped to the very next train and actually upgraded to first class, which was cool, so we were living the high life! But honestly, Todd and I were suuuuper stressed when we missed that train.
Here is Tate living it up Eurostar style!
Thatcher playing with Euro and eating his pizza. These boys are so funny about the different money. When we got on the train Thatcher asked us if he could have the rest of our Euro since we would just be "throwing it away now that we didn't need it".
We got a good laugh out of that one.
Tate enjoying a good snack on the train...
Playing the french card game the boys got from the Easter bunny/chicken on the way home.
We got home, and it was funny to us how homey London and our little flat felt. Doesn't take long to acclimate to new life. We had a BLAST in Paris, and we are so glad we took advantage of the long weekend and went over.
