We just came home from dinner with my Aunt Olive and cousin John who live in England. It was lovely to meet Olive and wonderful to reconnect with John. We had a bit of trouble finding somewhere to eat because the place that we had chosen didn't begin serving dinner until 7:45 and we were hoping to eat earlier. We ended up at a cafe where we had eaten lunch the other day, Camille's. It was tasty and more importantly, serving dinner.

o.k. back to yesterday. It was "Griffin's day". We started off by going to Jardin Enfants in Les Halles. It's a garden/playground where you drop off your child for an hour and they explore it on their own. We arrived about 10 minutes before the hour and didn't see anybody running it, but there was a class waiting outside. Griffin spoke to the teacher to try to get information, but she didn't know much either. However, at 11:00, a worker unlocked the gate and welcomed the children inside. Griffin connected with some girls in the class and played with them. It gave her an opportunity to speak french with her peers. She enjoyed observing the differences between that class and her experience in the states.

After we ate lunch and Griffin and I decided to trek out to Arrondisement 15, Ballard, to experience Aquaboulevard. It is a water park. It was very crowded with young Parisiens; it was a pretty steamy day outside. It was a large facility that had pools both inside and outside. The water temperature was perfect, refreshing but not too cold. We could swim our way anywhere. They had tide pools and fountains. We played putt-putt golf and then went down the slides. It was dinner time by then and the crowds had tapered off. We were able to go down quite a few of them before heading home.

Todd had prepared a lovely little meal for us, so we stayed home and noshed together.

This morning we had massages. Griffin and I did the Petit Duos, which was a 30 minute massage for a tired mother and her child. Griff and I had Thai massages and then we rested in the quiet room, reading and drinking tea. Todd had the 60 minute hot oil Thai massage. His hips have really been bothering him this trip, so an hour of deep tissue work was definitely in order.

We went to an Italian deli and picked up lunch to eat in the Jardin des Les Halles. Afterwards we wandered around and shopped. They have some great kitchen shops that we poked around in. Our day ends where I began; having dinner with John and Olive. We're not sure what tomorrow holds for us; we'll wait and see what the weather is like before we make a decision. As our time here ends, there are still a few places we would like to eat and things we would like to do.