I'm sorry this has taken so long. My parents were here for the week and just left. I'm now in the weird period between my parents leaving and Lee's flight getting in.
Just in case there was any confusion other than my parents, there are now 4 posts about Paris (The Strike, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3)
We started out the day by walking through this street market thing. There were trucks parked along the street and were decorated and looked really cool! There was also this homeless guy that started talking to us. Well, he was talking to Megan because Colleen and I were across the street. When she pointed at us, he asked if we were her children. This caught us very off guard because as young as Colleen and I look, Megan does not look like she could be our mother. So that was interesting...
When we got inside the market area we just walked around and took pictures the whole time. It was fun to be able to focus only on that, not needing to buy anything and stuff. It was fun and we got some artsy shots throughout. Here is one of them!
After that Megan went off and explored on her own a bit while Colleen and I went over to Notre Dame to try to get inside. I included these pictures with one of my earlier entries I think, so I'm not going to put up more pictures of it. Because of the service going on, there was practically no line to get in. We couldn't walk through the middle area of the church, but we got to wander around the sides and check out the service as well as the cool building. Of course, none of it was in English, but whatever.
Then, Colleen and I headed over to Sacre Coeur to meet up with Megan. We successfully avoided getting those braided bracelet things and made our way up the hill. It's really steep!
About half of the way up we stopped for a "traditional" (is it really traditional? I could never figure this out...) lunch of bread and cheese! Authentic or not, it was really good. 
After going inside and around the church, we continued to the blocks behind it and wandered around the shops and the artist areas. There are some really cool paintings of Paris as a whole, or just certain parts of it that I loved, but I had already spent so much money, and don't have a house to put anything in yet, that I decided to wait until my next trip to Paris to stock up on art. I did however do plenty of souvenir shopping and blew a good chunk of my money. Totally worth it though.Colleen is a big Moulin Rouge fan, so we went over to that area to kill some time before catching our transportation back. I, however, have not seen this movie, so while it was cool and all, I had no idea what we were looking at. Maybe I'll watch it over January while I'm home. Christy? You in?
Despite not knowing anything about where we were, the three of us got really lucky because while we were standing around, we noticed some music coming from down the road. After going over to check it out, we realized that a large group of people were dressed in white masks and reflective vests and playing various instruments. They also started chanting at one point, but it was in French, so that was lost on us.
After they passed, we notice more music coming from the same starting point, so we went back down the street and saw this big float thing with people playing instruments on it. The float was being pulled by this guy, and there was a fire blower circling it down the street. Again, we had no idea why any of this was happening, but it didn't stop us from taking pictures!
All in all, I'm so glad that I went to Paris. I got to see a lot of famous places and things that I've only ever read about or seen in pictures or on TV and I got to explore a new city and language!
Megan and I took the train back to Glasgow and while we were getting on we heard this one lady ask a man nearby to hold her baby while she put her suitcase on the shelf. Everyone who was around and heard this thought it was funny, so, I titled this post in honor of her.
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