More France

When we were at Mont-St-Michel, Evan had found some French kids in one of the grassy gardens who were playing hide-and-seek. He joined in immediately, despite the language barrier, and was soon bouncing with a small girl close to his age. Unfortunately, soon after we had arrived, the family had to leave and much crying followed. So, Sunday we decided to split our day between kid friendly and non-kid friendly activities. In the morning we went to a very cool War memorial, Musee de la Batterie de Crisbecq, where you could run around in one of the German's largest coastal artillery batteries with 1km of trenches and 21 linked blockhouses, renovated to show what they contained during wartime (checkout the picture of the bunker that received a direct hit). Evan seemed to enjoy it running up and down stairs and in and out of tunnels and into every random crevice and staircase he could find, even exploring the boxes and cabinets they had on display (which was allowed).

For lunch we went to the beach and played in the sand. After lunch we stopped by the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie, but Evan only got through about 15 minutes of the 25 minute informational movie and we had to leave, he was asking so many questions. Then he ran around looking at the trucks, jeeps, and tanks while Sean looked at some of the displays and I chased Evan. It was soon evident that not much was to be gained from the museum visit and we needed to move on to Paris anyway.

Sunday night we stayed at the Novotel Convention and Wellness Center at Charles de Gaulle airport and it was one of the best hotel experiences we had. The restaurant was excellent and child-friendly, the breakfast was wonderful (and included), and there was even a kid place in the hotel with a playstation and other activities. It was also great because we were able to completely avoid the Paris traffic and were only 30 minutes away from Disneyland.