Happy Easter from Paris! We had a great day on Easter Sunday - we went to the English speaking church, St Joseph's, for Mass in the morning. It's close to the Arc de Triomphe so we took a stroll down the Champs Elysees afterwards and headed for lunch in the left bank. We then visited the Pantheon, a beautiful building which was originally built as a church in 1790 but has since passed hands between the Church and state several times. It's now desecularized, but you still kind of get the feeling that you're inside a church, so it's weird to see a big pendulum swinging from the roof (see picture below).
Max's first time in a sandpit - "so this is sand, eh? Can I eat it?"
Who needs chocolate eggs? Max celebrates the arrival of another batch of Farley's rusks from Scotland!
Foucault's Pendulum inside the Pantheon
Foucault, a French physicist, suspended a weight from the dome of the Pantheon in 1851. The weight swung back and forth, and as its position moved in relation to the floor below, Foucault was able to prove the earth's rotation.
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Pantheon
The city's great achievers are buried in the impressive crypt below the Pantheon - they include Marie Curie, Victor Hugo and Louis Braille. Isn't this blog educational?!
On Monday, Max and I headed up to Montmartre with Jen and Theodore. The weather was great and we had a lovely time taking in the views from the Sacre-Coeur.
Heading up to Montmartre with Jen and Theo - note Max's scrunched nose - his new face when he's a bit confused. He must be trying to figure out if that's Theo in the baby carrier. Yes, Martina, it is a baby carrier.
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