Euro14 Day 42: Champs-Élysées, Opéra Garnier, Trocadéro and Les Halles

Temperature: Min 15°C; Max 22°C.
Weather: Overcast with occasional showers.

We started the morning with Eskil having a play in the Jardin Anne-Frank while I found a local geocache.
Chauffeur
Then we took the Métro to the Champs-Élysées. I haven’t posted all the millions of Captain / Daddy Feathersword photos I took, but here’s Daddy Feathersword on the Champs-Élysées. We walked up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe.
Daddy Feathersword dancin' on the Champs-Élysées
Daddy Feathersword at the Arc de Triomphe
A shower of rain came while we were at the Arc de Triomphe, and that plus the gigantic queue convinced us to walk around but not bother going up it. Then we headed off to the Opéra Garnier.
Palais Garnier Opera
Under the stairs
Light and shadow
Captain Feathersword was at Opera Garnier!
Gluck
Peering down the Avenue de l'Opéra
Grand foyer
We had a quick look inside the Galeries Lafayette.
Balloon at Galeries Lafayette
I wanted to take the boys on some above ground sections of the Métro, however they were closed for repairs! We had to get off at Trocadéro. So we checked out the view of the Tour Eiffel from the Palais de Chaillot. Then we hunted down another playground for Eskil.
Daddy Feathersword at Palais de Chaillot
Eskil at a playground at Trocodero
Riding a bunny
We crossed the Seine, under the Tour Eiffel, and to the bus 69 again. We got off near le Pont Neuf. Eskil was getting cranky, so we got him some ice cream and relaxed in the Place Dauphine.
Captain Feathersword on le Pont Neuf
Eskil was having much fun making faces for me to photograph while he ate ice cream
On the Pont Neuf
We walked to the underground shopping mall at Les Halles. We had a dreadful coffee then did some excellent shopping.
Shopping at Les Halles
Afterwards we walked through a real drenching rain shower home.

More photos can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cragg-ohlsson/archives/date-taken/2014/07/29/.