Sometimes each and every one of us experiences this time when we are simply overworked and underslept. I'm currently in this condition, which is why I write less than I would like to, although more than I probably should. I am enjoying this tremendously, just so you know.
After a week of 14-hours workdays, almost without seeing my family (I work from home, yeah?) and when I probably lost some of my ability to sleep due to the fact that spring is (sort of) here, which pops me right out of my winter hibernation, I decided that this is it, I have to take a day off. And so I did. And my husband and my daughter and I went out to explore the city of Paris, which we haven't truly explored in a while.
First of all, we started in one of our favorite places of late, the "Cite des Siences" - or, as we like to call it, the children's museum. This museum is not really only for children, we enjoy it just as much as our daughter, but there is a lovely kids' "city", where only children of ages 2-7 and 5-12 may enter (yes, there is overlap between the ages, since these are two different sections of that same children's place).
So this was our morning:
After lunch, we had quite a bit of free time before we had to arrive to a close suburb of Paris, Montreuil, where our talented friend Dana had a bilingual concert (in English and French) for both children and adults. So we decided to walk.
When you walk, especially in a part of the city where you've never been before, you find out some cool things. When you do that with a child, you also tend to find new parks and playgrounds. This is some of what we saw on the way.
It took us about 1.5 hours of walk + play, but we made it to Jardin d'Alice, where the show took place. This is a super-sweet and huge community center, with artists' ateliers, courses, activities for adults and children, and even a bar (with alcohol, because we're still in France but with other stuff too). The show was lovely, and I have no photos or videos due to respect and copyright issues, but I did take a photo of a very intriguing corner of this community center, which I found to be charming.
Finally, after the concert was over, it was time to head back home. Again, as we were in an unfamiliar place, but still relatively close to Paris and within walking distance from a metro station we wanted to catch (don't get me wrong, we passed about five of those on the way, but we still preferred walking a bit and get to the nicer line), we decided to just walk it out. And so we did. The suburb was less than interesting, and from there we continued to the highly-unappreciated 20th quarter of Paris (I don't appreciate it much, either, I'm sorry to say), and all the way to the metro. However, one thing caught my eye and seemed interesting enough to deserve its own photo:
Well, that was my day. I hope your weekend was lovely and recharging as mine was.
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