Sacred Hearts and hills...

..so, our days can tend to be action packed and then sometimes they're not. We like to sleep in...that means getting up at 8am or so. I usually play with my cards or "tickets" as I like to call them - they're folded pieces of paper or envelopes, some have braille on them and I sort them and count them, etc. No one really seems to understand this game but me and that's ok. Creed likes to play Legos in the morning and sometimes watches French cartoons. Mama thinks it's ok to watch TV as long as it's in French. She even lets Creed watch game shows before dinner.

We have breakfast and then do a bit of cleaning. My friend, Evaluna, just lent me her keyboard so now I can play the piano as soon as I get up. Usually by mid-morning, we get a bit antsy to go outside so Mama plans a little excursion. Creed likes to go to Jouet Club and look at toys - I just like to take the métro so I really don't care where we go. If it has to do with steps, escalators or trains - I'm there!
The other morning we just walked around our neighborhood of Beaubourg, there a lot of little shops and galleries and then, just a block away is the Centre Pompidou. Creed and I have races there before the crowds arrive. There are a lot of tourists because it's summertime but we get there early. We start at the top of the hill near those big white things and run down the cobblestones until we touch the glass windows of the Pompidou. No one yells at us about fingerprints and I am sure that Renzo Piano would be happy that his building is getting good use when no one is inside looking at the art. I love to run with my cane in hand over the bumpy stones and I refuse to let Mama help me. AND, I can go just about anywhere and not bump into anything although I must say that I am pretty good at staying in straight line.

The other morning, before Gillian left to go home on an airplane, Mama showed us the back way up to Sacre Coeur. The quartier Montmartre is one of my favorites just because of the steps. They have steep ones and wide ones, short ones and tall ones. Of course, I like to do everything myself, but Mama like me to practice counting the steps in French as I go up and down.



xoxo,
Zelda

p.s. Have you seen the latest Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris? I love that the first person that Owen Wilson's character meets at a party is Zelda...Fitzgerald!