birthday in Paris

There may not be a better place and time in the world to turn 20 than a Friday night in Paris.

I spent the morning in class at our hotel, but we had a very eventful afternoon. Gabriel led us on a walking tour of Paris, basically spending three hours bashing the French at ever chance. It boils down to him calling them a bunch of "cheese eating surrender monkeys". We walked to the Arch de Triumph and climbed to the top. We had a spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower and of Paris. After our long walking tour, I went out to dinner with a bunch of people, then continued to a pub and spent a few hours there. All in all, a fantastic birthday!