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Sharron ran in the Paris marathon so Molly & I went to cheer her on.

Took the train and arrived late Friday night.

Saturday morning we went to a market and scoured the secondhand clothing stalls for vintage finds. Then we headed to the Notre Dame cathedral for a picnic lunch in the garden. Paris is beautiful in April while the cherry trees are in full blossom and there are not a lot of tourists clogging the streets. For such a big city it is very clean and fairly quiet (at least this time of year it is.) We walked around all afternoon trying to see the major sites: the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Royal Palace, Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde, a walk along the Seine…. That evening we had another picnic in the garden at the Eiffel Tower. Afterwards we sent Sharron to bed and Molly and I headed to the Latin Quarter for some people watching. We sat at one particularly well placed table and watched the glamorous Parisians walk by for hours. Our waiter gave us free wine because he thought we were Slovakian (huh?) Very very fun.

The next morning we took Sharron to the Marathon which started from the Arc de Triomphe. There were almost 30,000 people running so you can imagine the chaos. Saw Sharron off then headed to the Pantheon. Tried to go to the Musee d’Orsay but the line was ridiculously long. We were sitting in front of the museum and saw some of the marathon runners nearby and decided to have a look when who do we spot but our girl Sharron. At 3/4 the way through she was doing very well and we couldn’t get over our luck at spotting her right away. She carried on and we found our way to the Rodin museum. Went to meet her at the end of the race, she did very well for her 1st marathon. We headed to Montparnasse and found a café for her to relax in. Molly really wanted to go to the Catacombes, after searching for a while we realized they were closed for renovation (They’re dead, they don’t need renovating!) But we found the Montparnasse cemetery which cured our need for talking to the dead, including Charles Baudelaire, Constantin Brancusi, Man Ray, Simone de Beauvoir. Then took a leisurely stroll down a beautiful avenue to the train station.

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