Paris in May 08 - a roadtrip

What to do for an extra long weekend in Zug, why not pack up the younglings and drive to Paris? After a 700 km roadtrip with twins and a nine year old you really know you're alive, and don't mention the family bonding.

It was a bout one year ago when Sunny and I headed for Paris and spent a night at Frederic and Eugenie's (parents of my god daughter Caroline) house. Something must have been stirring from within because I had an urge to do it again, even with Mingyu and the twins. 

It took a lot longer to get there than coming back, I guess that had something to do with keeping on the highways instead of driving through all the villages on the way there.

We stayed outside Paris at the Marriott near Disneyland, they had cute two storey town houses in period design and nicely decorated style. The boys were at home immediately. 

Friday we skipped Disney thinking it would be more relevant a few years later to go to the shopping village. This is no ordinary shopping centre in the middle of nowhere its a megalopolous centre with 100 outlet shops and a huge shopping mall. If the drive wasn't enough for the kids then 5 hours of shopping was  certain to push them to the edge of their endurance. Sure enough Samuel and Andrew had meltdowns. one time together in the supermarket and drew the attention of all the shoppers in a 3 aisle radius. They cried in all the cool shops too like Miss Sixty, Energie, D&G and did not say or do anything in the boring shops like Dupont. Ralph Lauren and  and the shoe shop.

That night we were all but spent when Sunny noticed a swan and her babies heading up to the house. We laughed as the baby swans (there is a word for that ) tried to get out of the water most of them tripping and falling as they did so. 

Saturday we moved out of the hotel and headed to Morrain Villers to meet the Family and my little god daugher caroline. We had a very nice day featuring lunch, girls shopping outing, boys computer games and dinner.