Paris #4 - An Interview with Megan

Our Paris Apartment

An Interview with Megan.

Janice: Well, Megan, how are you enjoying Paris?

Megan: I'm enjoying it a lot and it is wicked.

J: What's different about Paris?

M: Everything. The traffic is much busier than Toronto. The buildings are older. The food is tastier. My favourite would have to be goat cheese [big smile]. 

Megan and the Giant Flowerpot
at Chateau Malmaison

J: On Saturday, after making our last travelogue entry, we took the Metro and a bus outside Paris to visit the Chateau Malmaison, the country home of Josephine and Napoleon

. What did you think of it?

M: I thought it was very interesting with a huge garden with some inappropriate [naked] statues. It had tons of flowers that you [Janice] couldn't get away from! The rooms were big and there were tons of them, almost too much. I wouldn't want to live there because I could get lost.

J: Yesterday, we went to Parc Asterix. How did you enjoy that?

M: That was alot of fun. I went on all the roller coasters. One of them had 15 loops. One other was a HUGE version of the Great Canadian Mine Buster. It went 80 km an hour over a 1 kilometer track. The other one was actually like a tube and Aunt Janice was totally scared [the only one I went on! J], but I had fun. The others were small. I also went on a tube ride. I had cotton candy. HUGE - almost a meter tall. They call it Barbe à Papa -- Daddy's Beard.

J: And what about today?

Megan poses in front of one of the Louvre paintings

M: Today I was totally exhausted, my feet were aching, but anyways we went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. We got lost about 8 times in the museum. We also went to a smaller museum that was way easier to follow because there were directions and they had numbers on the rooms to show where to go next [Museum of Medieval History - Cluny]. The most interesting thing at this museum was the bottom part where it was all built and sort of looked like a dungeon. It was called the frigidarium and the Romans built it.

Tonight we going on the night bike tour with Mike's Bike Tours. It includes a dessert stop and a boat tour.

Tomorrow, we're expecting a city strike so we're going to have a picnic by the river and I'm going to sketch in the sketch book I bought today at the Louvre.

We're having a wonderful time. We'll report again soon.