Day 6 - Geneva to Paris

We made it out of the hotel safely and the kids weren't found out. Hehe. We also managed to catch the 5.10am shuttle to the airport. It was still dark when we arrived at the airport. 

Bye, bye Geneva.

We lingered in the airport for a while before heading to the train station for the train to Paris. The train ride takes about 3 hours. Ah yee was seated separately from us given that her train ticket was purchased separately.  

It appeared to be a full train and so Lil Isaac had to sit on my lap. He doesnt need a ticket but also meant that he didnt have a seat in a full train. We were seated in a cabin with this big family of adults and teenagers, who were very noisy. They talked and laughed loudly and were changing seats. We also had this other screaming infant in the cabin and I started wondering if the French were as quiet on public transport as ah yee claimed they are to be. 

The ride was pretty smooth given that Lil Isaac fell asleep shortly and only woke up towards the end of the journey. Lil Shauna took a short nap and then we went to explore the train in search of the snack station and also to look for ah yee. It was then that we realised that all the other passengers were super quiet. Maybe that big family in our cabin were not French. Lol. Lil Shauna ended up posing for pictures at the staircase to burn time.

We arrived at this super big station. Hello Paris! The station was super crowded and every other person seems to be smoking. Unlike Singapore, people smokes all the time and everywhere. Even the parents smoked with their little kids in tow. It takes some time getting used to and it was a little of a culture shock for the kids. 

We then had to take a tube to ah yee's home. The interior of the tube actually feels like our bus and eating and drinking are allowed.

Then it was a long walk from the station to ah yee's home. Uncle C met us midway and helped us lugged the luggage home. We past by ah yee's favourite bakery and bought super nice french toasts back for bfast. The buildings along the way are all super nice.

We had to lug our luagge up to the 4th floor where their home is. My poor back!

We then headed to a supermarket for grocery shopping and ah yee cooked us fried rice and soup for lunch. We were thrilled given that we hadn't had Chinese food for many days. Of course the food was superb. Ah yee's skills have improved tremendously and she reminded us to tell Popo about it. Lol.

After lunch, we headed to the famous Eiffel Tower. It was super crowded and we figured out that it was not worth paying big money to travel to the top of the tower. We did take our tourists pictures though. 

We also tried some not very successful jumping shots. Lol.

Then we went to a nearby park and the kids took a 100 years old merry go round that is operated manually. The kids were given a stick to try to collect rings while on the ride and they had so much fun.

After that, we headed to another tourist attraction - Notre Dam, which is a huge cathedral. It was funny that the tourists were touring part of the cathedral while a mass was ongoing. The cathedral was very magnificent. 

We of course took the all important pictures. 

We had dinner at this French restaurant be for heading back to ah yee's place. Ah yee and Uncle C had snails!!??

Along the way, we came across and used one of the public toilets.

Not all of them are free. The one that we visited isn't the most pleasant but reasonable for a public toilet in the middle of the road. It is interesting that after each usage, the entire  toilet self washed via water sprinkled system. Lil Isaac was almost caught in the toilet when it attempted to close the door for self washing bcos we didn't follow the instructions. That would have been super traumatizing for him. Haha. Oh, the toilet will open up automatically after 20 mins. That wouldn't be very nice for somebody with a bad constipation. Hehe.

Back home, Ah yee kindly gave up her room and bed for us. The 4 of us squeezed into her queen size bed while she and Uncle C slept on an inflated mattress in the living room. I was so grateful for that, just that it was difficult not to wake them up if we need the toilet. There was no way to not step on their mattress to get to the toilet. Oops.

Mummy Lim