Military Museums

This morning we went to a few military museums that were housed in the same “Invalides” complex.  The monkeys brought their notebooks and made illustrations and “notes” of things that they wanted to remember.  This was Napoleon's tomb.

We went through the WWI and WWII museums and one that had a great deal of knights’ armor.  There were weapons galore and it was the first time in a museum that I was begging the boys to leave! 

If I took a photo of every canon they wanted to remember, my  16gb card would be full!  Here are a few…

And Owen insisted on taking this photo for Lisa (who loves fleur de lei things)  The cannon was one as big as those pictured above.

Afterwards we had a snackish dinner in the grass overlooking the Eiffel tower.  Owen:”Mom, why are you so into cheese now?”

The boys played at a park here, and met all kinds of French children.  At one point they had about 7 kids playing hide-and-seek with them.  One little boy was so enamored with Owen and Jack that he took them over to show his parents.  I am not sure what that was all about – probably that they were American?

We walked over to the other side of the Seine to see the tower from there.  It was fun to look at the tower from this side but it seemed like mostly tourists. 

The boys showed off their bags that I bought a few weeks ago.  They wanted them, and now carry their own water, snack, hand-wipes Band-Aids, and whatever random flyers/sticks/brochures that they feel like they cannot part with.  It is perfect even if it screams that we are not locals…