Castles, horses, and sweetbreads

Sun i woke up at 9! for some wild reason i get up around 9 or 9:30 here. cc and rosena got up around 12. rosena is the queen of sleep. by the time we got out of the house it was probably 2. cc had told her boss about the fun she had at chantilly and her boss gave her tickets to a race at vincennes on sunday call the prix presidente. i was all for it of course- the bug has hit me again ever since that first race at chantilly. its like crack but i'm playing with very tiny rocks. so vincennes is a cool place anyway- there is a huge castle and a parc and a zoo all around this area and the metro takes us there. we go to the castle which was cool and then we go to this park where there is a jazz fest and lots of cool landscaping. then we decide to go to the track to catch this one race. well the track is actually over a mile away and cc has some serious issues with her sandals and the lil dirt path we have to take. i told her to relax at least its not raining, while actually worrying a little myself because if it did then the path would turn to mud and then cc would really have some issues. finally we made it to the track. not a hat race. at chantilly you get all dressed up and the girls wear all the crazy hats. not here. not that i cared, not in the least, but i did want cc to have fun. i know she did anyway, and she was probably ecstatic that she didnt have to walk on that path anymore. anyway i managed to get in on the action for the main race and won. i took a favorite to win and took cc's recommendation to place and they came in 1-2! sweet. then i got a little action on the harness race next and then we off to some veggie restaurant in the 6th that rosena wanted to go to. it was good, beanie loved it, i was happy, and cc seemed to like her chevre on bread. then we walked to the pantheon, looked for the breakers that take up the sidewalk by st. michel and went home.