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Paris, je t'aime! Part 4: You've Gotta Buttress the Wall!

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In Part 3 of the Paris blogs, we ended our first full day back at our hotel in the Marais, after a lovely bistro dinner in the drizzling rain. Strolling through the Place des Vosges Even though we were tuckered out from the day before, my body still wasn't adjusted to our new time zone (9 hours ahead of LA), so I wasn't entirely surprised when I woke up around 2am and tossed and turned for awhile.  Chris noticed I was awake, so he offered that he'd be fine if I used the handy reading light nailed into the headboard by our hotel and got into a book until I was sleepy again.  We built a pillow fort wall around him with extra cushions just in case, but it worked well - I got a few chapters in and eventually dozed back off, and he wasn't impacted at all!  We both woke up again at the much more reasonable time of 7am, got showered and dressed, and headed downstairs to eat breakfast.  As part of our booking, we upgraded to the "bed and breakfast" option at