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Sorry, I'm back! Hunter is napping and I already showered and did my laundry, so it's back to blogging about Paris! So we left our bags at the hostel and hit the market. There was a market for every type of food: pastries, meat, fish, bread, produce. There were also many antique anf thrift stands. It was a dream come true! And unlike America, where only old people and weirdos go to markets, all the Parisians come out to shop. Everyone buys all their food and pulls it around in little shopping bags with wheels. Almost everyone you see at any time has a long piece of bread under one arm. We decided to buy a boat ticket, which allowed a full day of cruising the Siene, hopping along all the tourist spots. I thought I'd seen a lot of Paris beauty, but I hadn't seen anything. Notre Dame is huge and so beautiful! We want to go back and see the roof and gargoyles. The Louvre is even bigger, and I never knew that Napoleon once lived there. It was late, so we decided to visit another time and headed to the Arc de Triumph. Along the way was an awesome obelisk. We'd bought a train ticket and decided to get ready to leave. We didn't want to but every place we tried was totally booked. We bought a couchette bed in a ten-hour train to the South Coast. We were dead by the time we boarded. We shared with an old French man and a young couple. I fell asleep quickly, but Hunter tossed an turned all night. We woke up eaely and met a nice family of 6 from Queen Creek, AZ who traveling Europe. So far, the South is beautiful. All the houses are pink with red roofs and swimming pools. The beaches are rocky and the water's clear blue, like Florida.