Lets recap

The past few weeks have been full of sightings, outings, comings, goings, eatings, sleeping, partying and finally resting! Ethan has been awarded the super-de-dooper traveller award and mom and dad get honorable mentions. I really do think we should have trophies for the challenges we had to do and overcome. For example, trying to navigate the metro system in Paris and asking the police men if this stop has "rein du stairs" only to find out that once helped inside we have about 3 more flights randomly throughout the station! GOLD STAR!
Fun things we've discovered that aren't in any tour guides:

Ethan and I found out that you get front of the line access to the Louvre and the bathrooms there are free so if you are ever in Paris and need to pee, take a kid and a stroller and go!
You may get early access to your hotel room cause who wants a mom and baby sitting in the lobby crawling around trying to kill time!
You may avoid extra fees or penalty fees if you miss your trains or have too much baggage.

This past weekend was finally our couples weekend at Jen and Mike's place in Elie which is about 20 min outside of St. Andrews. Orlaith, Nicky, Maeghan, Reg, Peter, Ethan, Sarah (Maeghans' friend) and I made our way into town on the Saturday morning to go "celebrity spotting". Rumoured to be at this event was Hugh Grant (my Hugh-bo!), Samuel L. Jackson, Huey Lewis, Michael Flatley and other stars. Unfortunately for us, we were sold a lemon and anyone that we might know were playing at the subsequent golf course located a 40 min drive from St. Andrews. The cheek! I really think it was Jen's way of luring us to Elie so Mike could go watch the tournament and she'd have some company. No, really, we were just going for some good old fashioned board game fun and time to hang with good friends.

Funny story though...

We were at Tesco's on the Saturday trying to restock the wine cabinet for our games night in. Jen and I found a great deal so we stood in the endless queue and when we finally got to the checkout it turns out she didn't have her ID. Their policy is that whomever is at the till must present valid ID. So we scoffed with the guy for a bit as I was sure I could present mine and they finally let us slide so Jen went to the car to get my ID and came back with an empty wallet as I remembered there and then that I've sent mine off with my passport application. Now he was sure not to let us through and the line seemed to glare at us even more as we had been bargaining with the clerk for about 5 minutes now. As I was explaining the reason I didn't have valid ID on me, I said, "look, I have my son's ID" and he said "fine, let me see it" and he let us go on that! Can you believe it? Not like an underage kid could have a kid? Anyway, we had a nice glass of wine with dinner and that was that!

So Ethan and I are just counting down the days till my passport is back from processing and then we can book our USA getaway!
We finally have our ZOO membership so we're hoping to go there at least twice a week and eventually make it to the viewpoint.

I'll add a picture when we do!