Victor Hugo Market

Today we walked to the Victor Hugo Market. It was about a 10 minute walk away. We needed food and we were all soooo tired and if we didnt move we were going to fall asleep. We all slept last night from about 5 or 6am (except for myer who has been awake since 11:30 last night) and then I woke us up around 9am to try to get us on French time. The kids are napping now.
Victor Hugo market is one of the larger markets around. I would compare it to Pike Place in Seattle for those whove been there or maybe even the big market in Kansas city on Saturdays. I found a vendor there who is French but went to high school in Michigan and he was very helpful and he said to come by Tuesday and he will tell me the best way to shop there and help me with translation.  He gave the kids some unpasteurized cheese that everyone hated except for Curtis. The market trip was a bit of a mess as it was a rainy, cold wet day and everyone was sleepy. It was much like taking 3 tired kids to a grocery store in the US and then walking home a mile with them and your groceries. I look forward to going back when we are all rested! The kids ate so many samples and we bought them hot cocoas (my second time with chocolate in France- both times it was dark chocolate) on the way from a street vendor (he spoke English) I was in charge of produce and bread and curtis was in charge of meat. We got chicken filets (he didnt think Id like cooking the poultry with the head and feet still on and most of it did. He was correct in that assumption) and some duck sausage (its a Toulouse specialty), milk, butter, strawberry marmalade, eggs, produce and some bread (a hard loaf, not the soft sliced loaf like at home). I will do a more thorough post on shopping next time, including prices etc, when it is less jet laggy over here. I couldnt convert kilograms to pounds and euros to $ in my head although Curtis of course could and told me the meat prices varied widely from booth to booth. The bread lady couldn't speak English but we got along just fine without language. The produce guy heard us talking and so he told me the price in English. And everything else I bought from the Kalamazoo guy. There is no microwave in the apartment nor anything plastic that I have found for the kids to eat off of or drink with. They alao had an open wine bar. They are open from dawn til 1pm daily. Most of the other markets are open once or twice a week.