Poisson d'Avril sketch letter

This morning when I got up I stepped on chocolate fish first thing.

It's total immersion around here. Yesterday was the annual French fete, Poisson d'Avril. You can buy an entire school of chocolate seafood if you like.

Gerard Mulot is Fish Central in my opinion at Easter. On the right praline-filled milk chocolate lobsters, crabs, oysters. Milk chocolate is nothing to sniff at by the way. Its harder to get the balance of milk and sugar right than straight old dark chocolate. Give it a try and forget the percentages.

Mulot has perhaps the biggest range of moulages or chocolate molds. Even Sturgeon for caviar-lovers.

Big fish are filled with little fish or fritures. Yum.

I thought at first it would be a snap to paint chocolate fish with a little help from the Aquarium. Ha

And what a mysterious and stunning place it is. Especially the 10m deep, three-million litre shark tank.

Hurry up and apply for a free overnight Airbnb is offering to sleep with the sharks (35 of them). Airfare included.

The children's 'petting pool' is a delight.

I brought Bear along but I was so enthralled I forgot to take him out of my bag until the gift shop.

Naturally he wants a stripped clown fish toy. We're giving it serious thought.

Clearly it wasn't going to be so easy to capture these exquisite fish in watercolor.

I wished I hadn't thrown away the wash doodle I'd done after visiting much smaller Aquarium de Porte Doree.

First go was a no-go :( Was I inhaling too many chocolate fish to see straight?

Enfin les fins d'Avril c'est fini!
By the way the Aquarium de Paris is near the Eiffel Tower in Trocadero parc, a 5-minute walk from Metro Station Ilena.
Bugs emailed me,
"Loving your French children fishing - they look like they popped out of a children's story book".
Umm...c'est moi