La Rentree

It's my second to last day of a four day quickie trip to Paris. Today is Sunday and walking "home" this evening, I saw all the folks returning from the week long holiday. Cars double parked, children and bags being unloaded and hustled into apartment buildings. The police are out in force, in competition to ticket as many illegally parked cars as possible. I am sooooo relieved not to be returning from a 10 hour drive from Italy, with tired, hungry kids, having to look for an impossible to find parking space on a Sunday evening, try to find something to feed overwrought children (because everything is closed)and then hustle them onto a crowded metro tomorrow morning to shuttle them to school. And I know THEY are happier too!