Sunday, May 23, 2010

Is this Paris?

Mousie and Flippers found themselves in Paris on a very particular, peculiar day. It seems the Champs Elysees was turned from a boulevard roaring with cars and trucks into a colossal garden, full of things green and growing. There were forests and lawns, rows of peas and squash, and even a mouse-sized beach of sea salt. This being France, the first thing Flippers found was lavender - wonderful wonderful lavender. He had trouble staying awake after this photograph was taken:Mousie then found an olive tree. It was only a little olive tree but Mousie is only a little mousie so it was very big for him. He liked climbing it because he could finally see above the heads of the millions of people coming to see the new Paris park.And then he found some tomatoes. This was starting to make him a very hungry mouse - all of the perfect ingredients for a fabulous salad. Unfortunately nothing was quite ripe so Mousie had to be content with feeding his imagination...Then Flippers found something entirely unexpected - family! As is a well known fact, all spikey things are, of course, related. Since Flippers and pineapple are both also very sweet, they are, in fact, close cousins. It was a joyous reunion.Finally Mousie found his own private spa - a square meter of pure and natural French grey sea salt from Normandy. But the sun was very strong and Mouise quickly became thirsty so he and Flippers went off in search of water and instead found break-dancers. Now Mousie wants to learn how to break-dance.

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