Eiffel de Tower

August 1st--We moved pretty slow this morning around the apartment. We spent most of the morning packing our stuff up to leave out early tomorrow morning. After getting most of our stuff organized, we left the apartment a little before lunch time. We brought a picnic lunch with us and headed to the park at the Eiffel Tower (or as Austin has called it "Eiffel de Tower", we aren't sure where the "de" came from). After eating lunch, the kids played on the playground for several hours before we actually made the walk right up to the Eiffel Tower. But, before getting there, Abby and Austin pedaled their way around on small bikes for about 5 minutes. Once we arrived up to the Eiffel Tower, we all stood in awe and explained to the kids how big it actually is. Luckily (as there were REALLY long lines), the kids had no interest in going up the tower. They were actually more interested in getting back to the playground. So we then walked back to the park for them to play a little bit longer before getting ice cream and heading back to the apartment. We arrived back at the apartment around 4:30. Mike and I got ready for our anniversary night out. That meant the adults had to get dressed, the kids had to be bathed and fed. The babysitter showed up at 6:00. She was the daughter of the family we were renting the apartment from. It worked out great because she took them right next door to play with her younger bother and sister until it was bedtime. Mike and I headed out shortly thereafter and went down to the Champs-Elysees area. We were going to eat at a restaurant recommended to us, but when we arrived at the location, there was no restaurant. We are assuming it closed down or moved. Anyway, we walked up the Champs-Elysees and just picked a nice outdoor restaurant. About halfway through the meal, Mike went to get us tickets to The Lido cabaret show, since it was right across from our restaurant. We finished up dinner around 8:30 and walked into the Pugeot store nearby. We bought a couple of toy cars for Austin and looked at some of their concept cars. We then headed down to The Lido at 9pm for the 9:30pm show. The Lido is one of the most famous cabaret venues in the world. We were immediately escorted to our seats which were pretty up close and personal to the stage. It was a highly entertaining and energetic Cabaret Show (nothing says Paris or France like a Cabaret show). We really enjoyed our time out and arrived back at the apartment about midnight. The babysitter said that the kids were perfect, not sure who's kids she was talking about though. We headed to bed for we only had a couple hours before we had to be up for our early train out of Paris.