Do you want to go to the seaside?

Saturday: Paris with Camille and Charlotte to see "La Dernière Séance," Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot, at the Musée Maillot. Except there was a three-hour line, so we went to a café in St. Michèl then took the train home.

Home: Laura and Christian are here! The two adorable cousins from Columbia. We played tag and blind-man's bluff until dinner (cheese fondue); I performed a touching cover of "Gaston y a le Téléphon qui Son" after losing my piece of bread, and Camille an uncannily Piaf-ish "La Vie en Rose."

Sunday: To the sea! Three hours to Deauville (it would have been two, but we took a shortcut). We had lunch at a moule-frites restaurant/crèperie.

Too many crèpes.

Then we walked to the beach where families in Speedos dared to go swimming in October. Everything is so much more photogenic in France: the kids in their rainboots looking for shells, the old women with their dogs and baguettes...

I'm not finished! But the photos won't load, so I'll add more later.

Tayler and Thomas- I love you both! I'll talk to you sometime, but my host father has been sitting at the computer for a week trying to fix the virus, so I might try the mail...