Friday

Today, we are a little late because we were all a little tired after our visit with ton ton Alain (Uncle Alain).

The Moulin Rouge is a red windmill and it lights up at night.  This is near our apartment.

We went to the Bateaux Mouches today.  These are boats, and they sail the Seine river under bridges near landmarks and monuments in Paris.  A monument is where someone or something is being celebrated with a building or statue.  A great example of a monument is the Eiffel Tower, La Tour Eiffel.

Guess what?  Four times, tourists from China and Japan asked if they could take pictures of me with them on the boat.  It's funny because I'm really a stranger to them, but they wanted to take pictures of me with them like I'm part of their family. (Papa says it's because I'm so beautiful. I think Papa's trying to brag about his son.)

I filmed the water in the river.

I have not seen Uncle Alain for just about three years, and today I saw him! I was so excited I forgot to take a picture of him.
 Here are some more pictures of our night.  We were at ta ta Francoise's house again.

This is tête de veau (veal head) and andouillettes (pork sausages)

This is a piece of beauty AND a water pitcher

Mmm mm.  Would you look at those cherries.

I'm out on Francoise's patio. Can you spot the Eiffel Tower?

Julie and Julien

I'm with Biscotte, la chatte (the lady cat)

Julien and ta ta Francoise

Bonjour la chatte

French Word of the Day:

Le chat (luh shah) is a boy cat. La chatte (lah shot) is a girl cat.

French fact of the day:
In the metro (subway), there's a little clock timer that says 4 min, 3 min, 2 min, or 1 min. When it reaches 0, you can see the metro train coming to you!

Thank you, merci!  See you soon!

Thursday

Hi, friends, teachers, and adults!  Bonjour mes amis!  This morning was extraordinary!

Today, we went to the world's only elevated promenade, which means it's the only walkway garden that is upstairs, above the ground. It's 4.7 kilometers long (about 3 miles), and I walked the whole way.

Whew!  All the miles I walked today were over 6 miles. (I walked over 3 miles every day in France.  That means I've walked over 18 miles already.)

Here are some pictures of La Promenade plantée :

Oooh, Ahhh.  This smells good.  There are thousands of roses along this pathway.

 

A bridge on the Promenade...

 

After a few kilometers in the walkway, Mama took a break, but I still exercised at this park. This French slide is a little complicated, because there's a little wiggly platform you have to survive, and there's no bottom to sit on in the slide.  So apparently, what you have to do is swing your legs around the poles, hang on, and slide down.  At first, I was too scared, so I went back down the ladder.  But I kept on trying and trying until I actually got it.  It was pretty fast going down, I can tell you that!
 

This is the Tuilleries fountain.  Two toy sailboats were floating in the water.

That's the Obelisque behind me.

 Next, we went to Monet's art museum.  It's really called the Musée de l'Orangerie, because they used to keep the orange trees in the building in the winter so they wouldn't freeze.

Here are some paintings of Monet's.

 These are paintings of other famous artists.

 Renoir:

 Soutine is Papa's favorite artist:

 Another Soutine:

 Finally, our dinner tonight.  It's very French food. Mmm mmm.  A baguette, saucisson (meat), brie cheese, Champagne for Maman, wonderful apricot juice for me, Greek yogurt, and a boule Chocolatee (chocolate ball).  Bon appétit to everyone!

French Word of the Day:
Bon appétit! is something you say at every dinner in France.  It means "Have a good meal!"

Fun Fact of the Day:
Monet's famous painting of the bridge is at the Musée d'Orsay, across the street from the Musée de l'Orangerie.

Wednesday

We went to the Science Museum called La Cite des Science today.

We played Health Games.  Here are some of the games I played: pumping blood, picture and word series to test my memory, tested my heart rate (it was 100 beats a minute), scanned groceries to test if you eat enough healthy food or too much junk food. In one game, you have to match up on a balance scale how much exercise you need to do to wear off the food (calories). Did you know that to burn off ice cream, you have to do judo for 30 minutes?

After we finished all the games we could do, we printed out our results.  I think I did a little better than Mama, because in one test it said she had too much fat in her favorite foods and maybe drank too much wine.

Then we saw an IMAX movie, which was in a big silver ball.  I learned about when the Hubble space telescope broke and astronauts had to fix it.  It was a pretty long movie and the language was in French, but the letters on the screen were in English.

I went to the gift shop and I bought a Star Wars X-Wing. (I really wanted a Millenium Falcon, but it was too many euros.  A euro is a type of money, like a dollar--like a few dollars!)

Fun Fact of the Day:

French Word of the Day
Au revoir: This word means bye or bye-bye.

Tonight, I've been watching Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes in French. They're funny videos, even in French.

See ya!

Love,
Julien Remy

Tuesday

Today, it is now evening, and I just came back from Papa's friend's apartment.

This morning, we went to the menagerie, which is a zoo by a popular garden in Paris.

I'm at the Jardin des Plantes.  I spy a Stegasaurus.

This is a snow leopard. It was very close to us.

Isn't there so much beauty in this place?

Check it out.  It's a white peacock.

I hope you like this film.  I filmed it on my V-tech at Françoise’s apartment on her balcony.  

Thank you very much for looking at this blog. Remember, this isn’t the end of my blog. I have four more days until I’m in the plane.

My French Word of the Day

Fraise: This word means strawberry

Fun Fact of the Day:

I learned that the Eiffel Tower twinkles with sparkly lights for one minute every hour.

See ya!

Love,

Julien Remy

Monday

Today, I walked 1, 280 steps.  That's how much is in the Eiffel Tower, and that's how much we walked.  We've always taken the elevator before, but this time, we took the stairs.

Huff huff huff.  There are more steps to go!

There are 640 steps up and 640 steps down.

Afterward, we went to the park.

These are pictures from Sunday.

(This is a picture of me after climbing the Eiffel Tower.)

 

Ahhhhh! Ooh, that feels good.

(Can you believe I climbed that thing? One time I almost got my sneaker stuck in one of those holes.)

French Word of the Day:
Arrete: That means "Stop"

My Fun Fact for Today:

(Sorry it's sideways.)
The Eiffel Tower took two years, five months, and two days for the monument to be fully built.

Love, 

Julien Rémy