On our second-to-last day in Paris, I took the kids to the Jardin des Plantes. The whole complex actually encompasses a zoo, a minerology museum, a paleontology museum, and vast gardens as well, but we just walked through the gardens and hit the natural history museum.
This dragon is entirely made out of recycled materials such as cans and plastic bottles. We were all transfixed by it.
This view is so typical of parks in Paris. They have a special vehicle that trims the trees uniformly while it drives by. This is one of the views that I miss most.
The natural history museum is enormous and fabulous. We were there for at least two hours and still didn't have time to get to one of the four floors. (My indoor photos didn't turn out very well, as usual, and all the ones of the kids are terrible.) This is called the Grand Gallery of Evolution. This photo doesn't do it justice, as it is hard to capture the scale. We had to drag Eva away from this part of the museum.
I love these transparent displays!
I will miss the fact that museums in Paris are so beautiful structurally as well. And of course I will miss seeing beautiful ironwork everywhere we go!
It was a perfect day in every way. The weather was gorgeous (but not too hot!), we all had a great time, and then Eva had a nap in her stroller while we hit McDo's:
I find it interesting that, while most McDonald's in America are exactly the same, the ones in Paris vary widely. There are some with very interesting design, and the one on the Champs-Elysees is positively fancy! Right now they have a sandwich on the menu called le P'tit Moutarde, which is a hamburger on a French roll with grainy mustard. France!
but apparently SpongeBob is universal...
5 comments:
That dragon is awesome- how I wish there were things like that here.
The park views are so cool too- it's pretty neat that they have a special vehicle to trim the trees. Who would have thought?
I am going to miss your Paris posts- it has been so fun to see Paris from your point of view. You have a gift for finding the beauty in the everyday things and sharing it with us all.
What a cool place to go, Whitney would actually consent to it and embrace it with dinosaurs and dragons wow.
I love the aligned trees, the trellises and flowers, what a glorious place.
A fancy McDonald's, who knew?
oh michelle....i absolutely love the trees and the ile of trees and the canopy they make, that has been something i have loved since a little girl...and it is soooo very hard to find over here...oh paris...by the way all of your pictures are beautiful..i'm about half way with jill's....i went to my brother's studio he has these hugemongous i mac screens and i was looking at your pictures there...i did not want to come home....my screen is pathetic.
hilarious about sponge bob...
i have loved your posts and i will miss them, as well.
i love that you documented the stay. what a great memory keeper for you and your family and what a nice treat for all of us...
wonderful!
each photo more inspiring than the previous! What a great day for the memories.
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