This lucky girl got to celebrate her birthday in Paris this year!
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| A peek at Notre Dame in the background |
When I saw the Semester at Sea schedule, I realized that we could make a Parisian birthday happen. So we went from Antwerp to Gent, Belgium for two nights, then Paris for two nights. More on Belgium later, birthday recap now.
Before we left for Belgium and France, Jason got almost all the faculty and staff from the ship to sign a card for me, a project accomplished with some very slick maneuvering on his part. I'm not easy to surprise but I had no idea he had been running around getting people to sign. When everyone kept mentioning my birthday and how cool it was we were going to be in Paris I just thought that I really needed to stop talking about myself so much!
It was a grey, rainy day in Paris, but we still had a great time wandering around. And I learned an important birthday lesson: when there's rain in the forecast, pack TWO pairs of shoes for your trip.
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| Notre Dame |
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| Us, blocking Notre Dame. The helpful tourist who took it clearly didn't get my vision. |
For dinner we went to a wonderful couscous place where the waiters surprised me with a pastry topped with the most insane birthday candle I've ever seen and the whole restaurant singing happy birthday in French. Next year's birthday has a lot to live up to!
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| The French don't worry about fire hazards |
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