Gardens and a Coliseum

I am WAY behind on posts. School has been crazy, so I'm going back two weekends ago. On that Saturday Jessie and I took time to relax and have lunch in the Luxembourg Gardens, which are like 10 walking minutes away. It was nice until it started to rain on us, which limited my picture taking time. Just as we left the Gardens the rain let up so we went down to the Seine and chilled on benches and read. But the real highlight of the day was when we checked out the Arenes de Lutece. It was something neither of us had heard of until Aunt Ruthie mentioned it. It is way interesting because it is this old, very well preserved, little coliseum, with a history plaque on its entrance and everything. The best part is that the Parisians have decided to use it as a park and people play around in it all the time. There were old men playing some weird rock game and kids playing hide-and-seek. This one little girl crawled up the wall that Jessie and I were standing at the top of and slide right past us to hide in a hole in a tree. These kids were way intense in their game, i mean this little 8 year old scaled a wall! If only the next day had been as nice. But no we were forced to partake in a scavenger hunt around Paris that lasted like 5 hours. Jessie and I won of course. We were a little late to the meeting point, but the only team to actually go to every point. Apparently some of the other girls came back early because they thought we would win anyways because we looked super competitive at the first location. I guess running around Notre Dame and the Jewish cemetery behind it might makes us competitive, but it worked because we won movie tickets and crepes!