We hustled out of the house in the morning and made it to Jardin D'Acclimatation again. We chose a perfect day for our second attempt at this kid-centered playland. We first rode a couple of rides in the midway section. Then toodled over to Cafe Angelina for lunch and their famous Mont Blanc pastry which is a Chestnut paste 'spaghetti' draped over a creamy dome with a crisp meringue disk on the bottom. Yummy. After that we wandered through the petting zoo and caught a couple of horses in flagrante! Jacqui laughed and said - 'that horse was trying to ride that other horse - don't they know that they can't do that!' Phew, dodged that conversion for another day!

We also rode a boat on the Riverie Enchantee, burned off some sugar energy in the climbing area and cooled off in the water feature. It's really true that, regardless of language or culture, all little kids go crazy for spraying water!

By then everyone was pooped out so we took the metro home and enjoyed a little siesta. In the evening, Jack and I wandered into the 7th to visit Bon Marche - Paris' answer to Herrods. It was enourmous and the food section was spectacular. We stopped by the US/Canada aisle of the food section and found not one Canadian product except, inexplicably, a brand of Granola from Vancouver that I've never seen before. Where is the Habitant soup? Where are the President's Choice Deluxe White Mac and Cheese? Where is the back bacon?!? I'm very disappointed! The rest of the items were American and these exports were flat out embarrassing! X-treme Nacho Pringles? Cheese in a can? Fruity Pebbles? We are in the food mecca of the western world and this is what North America has to contribute - granola and Franken-foods! Whoever curated this section has it out for us ... either that or we really don't have anything to contribute!

Bon Marche's 'Le Gateaux' is also featured in our patisseries of Paris book so we picked up a slice for later and walked over to Stephanie Chez Dumonet for dinner. This small neighborhood restaurant leaves very little buffer between tables and before long, we were enjoying lively conversation with the couple to our right from the Netherlands and the couple to our left from New Jersey - shorty thereafter, the solo business traveler from Chicago joined in! Luckily, there is a tacit rule in France that no diner is to be rushed so we were all left to our wines and dessert until almost midnight. Shortly after we got home, the power went out but it was an easy fix in the morning - once we were a little more clear-headed!