T-minus 9 weeks

We're about due for a celebration around here. This week we marked an important milestone in our lives as responsible functioning adults by having booked a holiday more than two months in advance. Contrary to our typical average of two days, the Pemulis family -- miles ahead of schedule -- both purchased train tickets and accommodation for a one week stay in the fashion capital of the world (excluding Milan, I think). Exactly 9 weeks from today, we will somehow wake the kids up around 5 in the morning and make our way to München central for a direct (thank goodness) 6:50 AM first class train trip to gay Paree.

What will we do there you might ask. Well if it's up to les enfants we will spend what looks to be something like 1000 EUR per person on a trip outside of Paris to go to Disneyland. Because it turns out that maybe there is a god, of course it's not up to them so we will instead try to recreate the trip that Pemulis and his brother took last November. That begins with a long breakfast of viennoiseries and several coffees followed by a long mid-day nap followed by a French dinner heavy on the Calvados. Just kidding. We'll only give the kids 1 or maybe 2 if they're being really good bad. Actually, we will probably just wait in a very long line to go up the Tour Eiffel and see the kids be disappointed at how in the end it's just a tower where you're surrounded by a lot of Americans.

Joelle and I had a plan to run the Paris Marathon which takes place on April 1st. If you can handle extremely basic math you'll realize that 9 weeks from today is actually April 5th so there's no way that we'll be able to accomplish that plan. The thing was that even if you were really fast, let's say even Kipchoge fast with Nike spring shoes, leaving les petits unattended for any more than what seems like 19 seconds has a high probability of resulting in at least one injury and definitely something getting broken. Also getting there by April 1st was cutting it a bit close with the holidays only starting that day so in the end we will definitely not run the Paris Marathon (at least this year).

So I guess our main plan is to go up la Tour Eiffel and then hang out for the other six days. Suggestions are welcome...