Well, it's our last day in France. Tomorrow we head off to Egypt. I'm kinda sad today...knowing that its our last day in the "normal" world (yes, we're going to Egypt next, but that doesn't even come close to normal anymore than Saudi does...wait for the next post...)
I've loved sitting around people watching, eating all the yummy foods, drinking wine...but again, we wouldn't be here in France if we weren't living in Saudi right now. huge double edged sword.
So, anyway, today was to just a flat out fun day for the kids. We decided to take them to the zoo..they love animals and so do we. Coolest part is that the zoo we went to has the only two Panda's in the whole of France. It was a cloudy, cold, day, but we had fun anyway. Saw the giraffes, rhinos, tigers, bears (oh my!)... the girls loved watching the monkeys and could have sat there for hours. My favorite were the gorillas...I could have sat there all day. They had a brand new baby gorilla...who was hanging out right next to big daddy silver back. At one point, the silver back scooped up the little baby and...kissed him, right on the head. Had to be one of the sweetest things I'd ever seen...big scary ass gorilla planting a kiss on a head that he could crush with his hands.
The panda's were awesome and had their own really cool Chinatown section of the zoo. After half the day at the zoo it was time to head out. We stopped in Amboise on the way back to have our last dinner. Found a great little restaurant and I made sure to order in style...baby back ribs...oh yeah. Back home we packed up and made sure we were ready for the morning...
And so begins the crazy day...
We woke with plenty of time to spare...the train didn't leave until 9am. No worries...right? wrong. We were tearing out of the house at ten after 8...it would take at least 30 min to get to the station...Matt drove quickly....I barked out directions from the iPad...we got to the station at ten till 9....tried to find where to leave the car...and then it happened. We got stuck. We went into a parking area...(took a ticket and all)...then realized we were in the wrong spot...tried to exit...and...nothing. The damn boom wouldn't go up. No matter what we did, the stupid thing wouldn't budge...then we heard the worst sound...the train leaving the station. (here's the part where my usually mild mannered hubby lost it....with a slew of swear words and fist pounding) Once calm resumed, we managed to get out of the stupid parking lot. Found where to drop off the rental and headed into the station. Matt got us tickets on the next train (leaving in 2 hours) for a fee of course. We parked ourselves in the little coffee shop and ordered beer. Yep, beer at 9 am...and it was well deserved. The rest of the morning passed easily enough...we got on the next train and made it to the airport. After standing in a monster line at EgyptAir, we were checked in and went in search for food. The Paris airport isn't like what I'm used to in the States...with restaurants all over...instead it was little deli counters...got a couple of sandwiches and some wine. Good enough.
And of course, good ol' EgyptAir was delayed...again. But, the next thing I knew, we were in the air and on our way to Cairo...
(trust me, you don't want to miss the next post about Egypt...what an experience that was!!)
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