The Jardin d'Acclimatation

Saturday morning at the Jardin d'Acclimatation. We took the train into the park on one of the first warm spring Saturdays in Paris. It is a great old school amusement park in the Bois de Boulogne. You can take a train into the park where there are rides, and carousels, games, spider webs, slides, trampolines, horse riding lessons, mini-golf, a mini-driving range and a mini-zoo complete with Bears, Bulls, Pigs and Bunnies. A child's heaven. It also has the first kiddy pool that I have seen in Paris. Good to know for the hot, hot summers that we have.

On the flying elephant...

On the pony ride...

On the teacup ride...

Sophia on the small trampoline - she enjoyed it so much we decided to try out the trampoline ride later in the day...

Finally - a swing in Paris. This playground is the only one we have found with swings. Our theory is that there just isn't enough space in the parks.

Sophia & her scraped up nose. She had a little bit of an accident on the astro-turf bottom of the (empty) wading pool - she missed a step on the edge - and fell on her nose & tongue. It was a bit of a mess, solved only by the arrival at the trampoline ride. 2 tokens for 7 minutes of jumping on your own trampoline (surrounded by pads on all 4 sides). Sophia was a little intimidated until she saw the little girl next to her jumping like crazy. She still can't jump on both feet, but can hop from foot to foot pretty well.

Learning how to jump on the trampoline

Sophia on the train.