The day after we got home from our Chamonix adventures, we were supposed to have another play date with the twins and their grandparents. Grandparents met us at the planned location and gave us a tour of the a quaint village near where they live which is centered around an Abbye undergoing restoration. Unfortunately, we have no pictures (see comment in previous post re forgetting things). The funniest part was the ornate nativity scene that was missing Baby Jesus. Rene's sister did not seem to have any thought on where it might be.
We went back to her house and she laid out a pastry spread that could feed an entire French village and we started to nibble while we waited for the twins and their parents. And waited. And waited. Rene's sister started to make the kind of comment that only a mother can make about how they are always so busy at this time of year. Around 6pm (play date supposed to start at 4) Lilah has a category 5 meltdown. She is exhausted and there is no place to put her down there as Lilah can only sleep in a crib or pack n play (the only way she can fall asleep is to crawl to the corner press her head into the side and fall alseep with her butt in the air) so even if I lay with her, she just tries to crawl away. I took her to the car and tried to get her down there but she screamed even louder so I gave the "Its time to go NOW" honk on the car horn and we had to go. Frank and Cristelle did email to apologize and the time with Rene's sister was fun (and good practice for me as 0 English was spoken) so its all good.
The last day in France was mostly packing however I promised Lilah that if she was good we would take her to this amazingly cool indoor playgym at a competitor to McDonald's. She was very good so we headed over there mid day (45 minutes drive each way).
She had the most fun she had ever had in her entire life.
I think she played in it for two hours. These things are a parents paradise. This one was at least 6 stories of padded baby proof obstacle course. The biggest concern with the gym was the big kids who play much like they ski. They were playing this very intense game that seemed to be a combination of tag and hide n seek where everyone was "It" (played in teams) and no home base.. They were actually pretty respectful of Lilah though, taking alternate routes through the course when they saw here playing in a certain section.
More packing and cleaning on last night. Of course Lilah had a nightmare and woke up screaming just as we got into bed around midnight. Poor thing. Its times like that when I wish she could co sleep cause I would have brought her in bed with me but no go. She has to go through her process. Happily, her fuzzy butt was in the air within 20 minutes.
Ride to airport coming soon. Wish us luck for the way home...
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