September, wow!

September 2008 has surely been one of the busiest months of my life! I have zillions of photos to post on here and just as many stories to share with you about all my adventures over the past few weeks. In the meantime, let me whet your appetite with a few choice photos from the "September of Em"!

As you can see, I was here, there & everywhere...

Paris...

Nice...

Italy...

and somewhere in-between...

!!!

Birthday brunch and beyond!

Spending my birthday in Paris was one of the better ideas I've had. Needless to say, it was fantastic!

My day started out with brunch at "Breakfast in America", a good old American-style diner. As we sat down at our red vinyl booth and opened our big plastic-coated menus, Laure said, "I feel like I'm in an episode of "Happy Days!" I couldn't blame her...




Please note the grille-pain at our table so we could toast our toast exactly the way we like it! That was way too fun. Equally awesome? The old-school Michael Jackson tunes on the stereo, the deliciousness of perfectly-cooked bacon and (most exciting of all...)

Dr. Pepper. In a can. With a bendy straw.

(I am no longer a teenager. Far from it. But yes, I drank pop through a bendy straw at breakfast and enjoyed every moment of it!)

So after the gluttony that was brunch, we burned a fraction of the calories with lots of window-shopping and a little bit of buying and then a walk through the Palais Royal gardens near the Louvre.


Next up was a matinee of "Mama Mia" at the movie theatre and then an evening of champagne, take-out sushi (yum!) and dancing to ABBA in Sophie's living room. So fun!

More photos of my birthday celebrations and my week in Paris soon...

And now off to bed, as I'm going to meet my Mom and Dad at Charles de Gaulle airport bright and early tomorrow morning. Then we're off to Pommiers for a few days, to a dance festival in Lyon, to Gap and surroundings... followed by a week or so in Italy. All this before the month of September is up!

La semaine des "birthdays" à Paris

So here I am in Paris again (swoon!), visiting les filles, wandering around all my favourite haunts, and celebrating not one but two birthdays!

My lovely friend Laure's lovely daughter Lilas turned one on Saturday! The birthday girl was in top shape and ready for a party in her honour:

Laure & I were also feeling quite festive in our party clothes:

There was cake, bien sûr:

And, after Lilas was snug in bed, there was apéritif, followed by Laure's famous lasagne and festive beverages. Cheers to birthdays!

To see more photos of Lilas' party, click here.