I stayed up late last night reading all about the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bardo museum, which is a chill thing to do the day before a planned visit to the Bardo museum.

We woke up and had another great breakfast. Millie once again got her bowl of chocolate though this morning we put some light limits on it: you can’t eat it straight but you can put it on whatever you want. So she had a chocolate sandwich and chocolate yogurt. We are choosing our battles.

We got ready slowly and tried to use inDrive again to get a taxi to the museum. We had less success this morning with a couple of canceled rides and difficulty finding each other. We all got frustrated: Millie at waiting and walking, me at Millie’s whining, and Nick at attempting to navigate google’s representation of the 1500-year-old Medina alleys. Eventually we got a taxi and were dropped off at the museum.

The museum was extensive. My favorite part were the huge, detailed Roman Mosaics. Nick has been reading about the Carthaginians, who populated this region before the Romans, so he liked seeing all their things. Millie liked the intricate ceilings and pink chandeliers.

For the most part though, she is over museums. Or at least the ones where she can’t touch stuff. She played with my scarf most of the time, turning it into different outfits or props and making up stories. She pretended to be a baby on the bench. She wore it as a super hero cape. She made it into an apron and took our order. At one point she tied the scarf around me and said I was a dog that she was taking on a walk. I’d rather be taken on a walk than listen to whining about being bored. She didn’t pay an iota of attention to the museum but she was happy and not disrupting any guests, so we left her to it.

There was a section that had photographs that I’m 99% sure were AI.

From here our original plan was to go to Belvedere park, which is a large park in the center of Tunis. Its main attraction is a zoo but after a reading some reviews it sounded sort of sad so we decided against it. We attempted to find a playground for Millie to get some energy out but there doesn’t seem to be a single playground in the whole city. The closest thing is a sort of indoor fairground at a mall outside of town. I wonder what kids do here. We haven’t seen many kids in general in the last couple of days.

Millie voted to go back to our hotel, so that’s what we did. She played with Nick for a while and I took an accidental nap. The center of the place has a beautiful courtyard which makes for a great environment to draw unicorns.

We were too tired and too hungry to wait until 7:30 again for dinner and luckily found somewhere that was open for us early birds at 5:30. Millie once again mostly ate bread and some lamb, but tried some things. She spent most of the meal chewing on the cinnamon stick that was in nick’s stew.

We walked back a different way and saw the rougher side of the Medina. At one point an old man came up to us and told us to turn around and not walk through this way, which we did. Tunis seems to have equal parts beauty and grime, often intermeshed. The people seem similar. We have been treated with great kindness but also Millie noticed tonight “why are all these men fighting?”. There is a lot of shouting.

It started raining as we got back, and we played cards until it was time for bed.