Having a birthday on a Tuesday is never that exciting, but it was still pretty cool
celebrating it here, in Paris. The 10th was a school day and I had a basketball game after school in Paris (and we won :), so at 8pm we just went out for dinner at a really nice restaurant in Vaucresson called Caravaggio. Even though it is winter, most restaurants still offer outdoor seating because the weather is pretty mild and they have outdoor fires or heaters. Many places put fur skins over the chairs too. So, anyway, there are some photos of the birthday night below. This coming weekend I’m going to Holland (The Hague) with the Varsity basketball team I play for and I can celebrate when we all go out. We will take a coach bus to Holland and then after our game, we go out as a team and then get ‘housed’ at the opponents houses in groups of 2 or 3. It’s actually very civil and not a bad idea because these people are all very wealthy and their houses are unbelievable and then the other team usually takes us out. Anyway, here are a couple of birthday pics for the family back home (bad quality, but we only had our phones on us).       Greg

opening gifts (a watch, TV series on DVD, jeans, clothes, ear buds, cologne)

birthday cake (making wish)

patio at Caravaggio, Vaucresson

Greg turns 17 !!

Greg and Bri (17, 13)

Inside Caravaggio for dinner

Also, the image at the very top is of my birthday dinner at our neighbour’s house the weekend before and I was completely surprised. It was also the day to celebrate 3 Kings Day so we had a Galette cake as well as my birthday cake. That was a great night too! Thank you to Lidwine and Laurent!!