Highlights of Paris

Alright Peterson family, you’ll be able to see/feel where I’m coming from with this. This is a picture of Dad sitting right behind me (the driver) on our way into Paris. What do you naturally think when you see this? I for one would say, “What a nice man – he’s probably entertaining his grandchild or something.” Let me elaborate. We’d been driving (I was driving the whole time) for about 4.5 hours and were in bumper to bumper traffic leading into Paris. I think Dad was getting a bit stir-crazy as he was sitting next to Brynn and all she wanted to do was play “hide”; that’s where you get under her blanket and whisper “hide! hide!” over and over and over again. She likes it. So, after an hour or two with that, Dad opened his radius of entertainment. In the lane next to us, there was a car with another toddler. Using the closest stuffed animal as a prop, he rolled down the window a bit and made the elephant start dancing. Nice, nice. We pulled forward and we’re next to another car. Again, one would think that the elephant would reclude back into the safety of the car. Quite contraire!! Mr Elephant started dancing for whoever we were next to. Truck drivers, business men, teenagers, the works. Luckily our car has German plates on it, so the French won’t think that the Americans are a bunch of wierdos. German/French relations are already in the crapper. Brynn had no clue what was going on – but Mom was laughing so hard that she was crying. Linds and I on the other hand were embarrassed – especially me being on the same side of traffic has him. This proves the point – no matter how old you are, parents are there to always make you blush and get embarrassed, but in a loving way of course. It’s true, I’ve already started my destiny of Head Embarrasser in this household with Brynn. Dad & Mom – we love you and thanks for the laughter!!

Here’s some more pics of the lovely Parisian art. After the Louvre, we were out in a park eating lunch and Brynn had a blast chasing pidgeons. Common activity all across Paris. Brynn saw this nice statue and wanted to pose the same as her (with a little parental coaxing).

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