Dreaming of France -- Children in Luxembourg

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Since I've been reminiscing about my children's early years, I thought I'd include pictures from Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.
If you have children, Luxembourg Gardens are a brilliant place to be visit. There are little sailboats the children float. Pony rides. Carousels with sticks to catch rings on. Puppet shows.
We spent a lot of time in the playground when the kids were little.

Here's Grace on a climbing apparatus that was kind of spongy ropes. 

Tucker shared his truck with a cute little French girl. 

And here are all three of them under an umbrella in Luxembourg Gardens.

I hope everyone else has lovely memories of France or dreams of visiting there someday. 

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Dreaming of France -- The Ubiquitous Carousel

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A French town just isn't complete without a carousel. I think the French must have a lot more carousels per capita than we do in the United States. What does that say about the French? About us?
This one was in Aix en Provence, aptly named the Carrousel Paul Cezanne since Cezanne had a studio in Aix and painted many scenes of the nearby mountain Mont Ste. Victoire.

Note the gorgeous blue sky behind the carousel and the intense red and gold on the carousel. There's even a second story that kids can go up to.

We saw another carousel in Marseille when we spent the day there. 

I wonder how big a town has to be to have a carousel. Maybe I should be asking how small it has to be so that it doesn't have a carousel. 

Hope everyone is having a splendid spring.

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