Despite going halfway around the globe, there are some things you just cant get away from. Apparently, one of those things is nosy strangers telling you how to parent your child. Chris and I were checking out at Carrefour today and a woman in her mid fifties who is in line behind us starts berating me because Lilah isn't wearing a jacket. I give her a look of disbelief. She thinks that the problem is that I dont understand, so she starts pulling on my jacket and Lilahs shirtsleeves to make her point. For the record, I understood perfectly the first time (much to my surprise), I was just rendered speechless because I thought that kind of thing only happened in Berkeley. I tried to explain to her that I had taken Lilahs jacket off just a few minutes prior and left it in the car because Lilah had been screaming on account of being too hot. Unfortunately, the word for "Car" was the only one in all of that which I could remember so I think Chris ended up getting between her and the baby so that we could make our exit.
Not much else to report today. We visited this very strange building created by, as far as I can tell, the very first postman to go "Postal" or something like that. My own pics dont really do it justice so here is a link to the official site.
We also went to that swimming pool which was exactly like an American swimming pool except the water was deeper and there were these cool hair dryers which unfortunately I dont have a pic of because, for obvious reasons, they dont allow cameras in the dressing room. Oh, the other strange thing was that the dressing room was co~ed. There were private stalls for changing and potty, however the common space with the lockers were mixed gender. I almost wandered into the Mens WC area by mistake, but remembered what Hommes meant at the last minute.
I think we are all getting a little sick and tired of sitting in the car, Lilah esspecially so we are planning to take it easy tomorrow.
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