Arc de triumph

Right before Charlie gets yelled at for climbing he arc like Spider-Man!

Luckily Kelly learned in French class that you get to the arc de triumph under ground so we knew how to cross the busy rotary!  We climb to the top, a long hike for Charlie, wears him out again, lucky mom gets to carry him sleeping back to the hotel!

Amazing night!

We take a night boat ride down the siene, Kelly is thrilled, she sees he boats she did a project on for French class, we see every amazing place, the lights are beautiful, we finish it off with a cool carousel ride on a double decker carousel, as we walk away the lights begin to twinkle on the tower, we make it back to the hotel right before midnight!

Top of the tower!

We walk a few blocks to the Eiffel Tower amazing it is right here!  Lines are long bit we go up while everyone is awake, kids are all thrown off on sleep.  Charlie falls asleep in the line for the elevator at the top.  I hold him forever and when we make it to the top I sit and hold him for a long time-on the ground-my back can't take it any longer! Good people watching though!  Girls love it and they make me get up, we finally get Charlie to wake up and Kelly uses her euros from her Easter basket to buy him a brownie-best $3.50 ever spent and that gives him energy so we can walk down the last two levels to the bottom-amazing way to see it!

Hope this statue didn't drink a big beverage recently or the girls are in trouble!

Catching raindrops on level 2 of the tower before he falls asleep!

Not how most people enjoy the top of the tower!! Wish I had a stroller!!!

Our Paris hotel!!

About to go exploring!  Charlie slept on the flight, girls were exhausted and napped in our beautiful room for a bit.

Atlanta! On our way!!!

We have a fabulous time at Julie's wedding, no photos to share as I was running the video camera.  We also had a great visit and campus tour of Vanderbilt from our old babysitter Katie. We arrive at Atlanta, manage to turn in the rental van and get all of our luggage on the plane-no small feat!  Charlie entertains everyone  in the airport as he rides his trunkie suitcase-best birthday present ever- thanks Jennifer!!!

Double Junior Ranger Badge Day!

We visit a Lincoln's Birthplace and Mammoth Cave in the same day and add two more badges!  Mom thinks the Lincoln site was a nice stop but that the Kentucky people have nothing on the true "land of lincoln".  Charlie loved running up the big steps.  

Katie did not like the spiders at Mammoth Cave, so notice her face while she gives the review!

Our lunch stop was a hit, a real A & W, this was the first time the kids had draft root beer and they were big fans!

Louisville!

We get to watch Dustin Pedroia's bats being made at the factory, Katie talks trash to our tour guide who is a Yankees fan, and we get to hold Big Papi's bat! We finish off the night with a minor league Bats game the field is walking distance from our fun hotel, perfect night for baseball and it was bring your dog to the stadium night!

We had seats but went to the lawn so the kids could wrestle off their sugar rush from cotton candy!!

Luckily the kid in yellow in the background was unsuccessful in his attempt to launch himself onto the field!