Paris - Day 5 (Saturday)

HB woke up with a really bad gastro illness this morning, so our day's options were very limited. We had planned to go to Versailles, but we decided it wouldn't be a good place if HB needed to quickly make it to a bathroom. We settled on just going over to the Luxembourg gardens to sit and watch the people and day go by. Some how she was able to make it over there, but then wasn't feeling well so we just grabbed a few chairs. Chuck and Coryn were able to walk to the park from their apartment. As soon as we all got there, Chuck and I went shopping for a little lunch. We found a little market and bought some ham, cheese, Perrier and soda, a few raspberries, and a few baguettes. We got a special baguette with olives in it that was really good.

There were a lot of kids running around the main fountain with their wooden sail boats, giving them a push into the strong wind and then running around to tend to them. I cannot wait to bring Sophia and Brady back to do the same one day. After a few hours the wind started to kick up a bit more and the clouds were doing their daily swirl above us, so we decided to head back to Jussieu and let Heather lay down on Chuck and Coryn's sofa for a bit more rest.
The three of us went over to anohter part that is right next to Chuck and Coryn's called Jardin Des Plantes. Its a great park with a zoo and a lot of trees from all over the world that were planted from the 1700-1800's. Very impressive trees and park. They had an exhibit on potatoes which I learned came from Peru, and now there are over 4000 different types of potatoes. :) There was also a nice rose garden, but most of the roses were a few weeks past their peak. I found one that was still hanging on.

We ended the day watching a few episodes of the British version of the show "The Office". I was surprised at how closely the US version has followed their plots. It was still a lot of fun to watch because the British version is a lot more mature in the humor, and has things that would never fly in the US. I got HB home after some chicken noodle soup and get her in bed with hopes that the worse was behind us.