No dollar and Aqueboulevard

I ventured out by myself yesterday morning while the kids were still asleep. I had heard that some grocery stores close on Sundays, but didn't get around to checking the hours.  Sure enough most all of the stores were closed, even on the busy boulevards in our area. I thought I was lost because all the streets looked different with bars and no window dressings.  Then, I realized I had no map and my phone was not yet working.  What was I thinking?   Luckily, I had walked enough to recognize major boulevards. Someone even stopped to ask me for directions, so I thought I must be starting to get a little French attitude.  I happened upon a market, but remembered I had no euros.  (We usually charge everything.) I inquired at the busy market but they said "no dollar" and then a guy behind me said "dollar, no, no" like what a silly American.  By then the worker was helping someone else, I was bloody hot, and thinking am I going to ask to use visa to pay for a box of raspberries? I wanted to say to the guy behind me "look wise guy, I just arrived, I get my ATM card tomorrow, my husband has the euros, etc" but couldn't quite muster up my French in 5 seconds to explain myself.  Then I thought, yes I am being ridiculous walking around a new foreign city with no map and no euros. C'est la vie.

We spent the afternoon in our cool apt playing games and then headed to the huge water park in Paris.  It is like Great Wolf Lodge with many slides, indoor and outdoor pools, wave pools, and sprays when you least expect it.  They also sound a large siren periodically to signal time for a 1 min water fight where everyone splashes as obnoxiously as they can.  We enjoyed the slide that is like the one at the fair where you slide on a gunny sack.  Fun way to spend an extremely hot and humid day.  Looking forward to "cooling off" today as weather expected to be down from 99 to 85.

Paige made a huge discovery yesterday. She realized she has a lock on her door.  Poor little brother won't get to bug her.  Ah well, he is enjoying the TV in his room.