La Petite Zelda goes to Paris...: Zelda et les gardiens...

....whoa! I keep getting yelled at by the gardiens in the parc. We go there often because it's at the end of the street. In fact, the other day, Julie & Laurent - parents of Tito - we're in Paris visiting family. We like Tito because he's little and cute and goes to Ecole with us. Anyway, we all went to the parc for a picinic. Despite the sprinkles, we had fun. I love running around the grass looking for my friends. Mom usually follows me but sometimes she watches from a distance if there's not a lot of people. The other day, there was a group of day campers with their animatrice eating lunch in a circle. I tell Mama often that I like to walk around the grass and see "my friends!" Well, that day I walked right into the group and stepped splat on one boy's bag of chips - oops! Il était gentil and his name was Evan. Mama told him that is Daddy's name.

So, on to the "gardienne"...I went over to the pump, gave it a few spins, and jumped up and down listening to the water. People would come up and get a drink or wash their hands while I listened. Then, I heard her voice, "La Gardienne" of the parc - Mama said she was all dressed in green and obviously worked for the city of Paris. She proceeded to tell Mama (all directed at me),
That I was wasting water, it was precious and if I didn't stop, she would turn it off. Ok, Madame... Enough said.

Next, I was alone in the sandbox - sometimes I toss sand or gravel to hear the sound it makes landing on things ( in the case, the leaves of the bushes). I was all by myself, Mama watched from a distance and this time it as "Le Gardien" - the male counterpart of the "La Gardienne". He didn't like that I was tossing sand and said I needed to stop or leave. Wow, I am only almost 6, really cute, and blind - give me a break!

So Mama explained all of this to Marilou, our nounou, because she knew that we would all go back to the parc later. And lo and behold, this time I wasn't doing ANYTHING and " La Gardienne" came over to lecture Marilou about the preciousness of water and how I shouldn't waste it. Damn, lady...I was only listening.

So ended the day where I, la petite Zelda, managed to terrorize the Gardiens of the Parcs de Paris.