Oooh, my aching feet!

So it was my idea to take the kids to the Eiffel tower and go up the stairs to the second stage. I figured it would burn some energy, and they had a lot of it this morning, despite a long day of walking yesterday. The trip to the tower was fine, and we only had to stand in line for about half an hour to go up the stairs. The trip up went well with the kids running much of the way. We got up to the second stage and had some lunch as well as enjoying the nice view. It was a nice cool day in the upper 60s low 70s (eat your heart out Austinites!). I had arranged to meet a friend at her house around 3:00, so we had to leave the tower around 2:30. We did the long walk to her house, and after that my feet felt about ready to fall off. We spent a little bit of time at her house and did a bit of re-fueling, then headed to the Musee Rodin. We just went into the garden where they have some sculpture and the boys could play around a bit. They liked some of the sculptures like the thinker, but they mainly liked the grassy area where they could roll around. Despite my aching feet we managed to make it over to Invalides to look at the cannon, which were pretty impressive. They even had one for Brandon! He was very pleased with that -- but then he kept asking me why I gave him a French name...

The boys loved seeing the cannon and tanks at Invalides so we'll have to go back there to check out the military museums sometime. I'm heading to the bathtub after the current soccer game is over (Germany vs. Australia).