Has a birthday!
July 2 was a landmark in the life of Miss
Betty: Paris with two of her children, celebrating her 91st
birthday. It was also a “down day” in the program of planned events and city
sightseeing, not that anyone was down, simply we had more flexibility and
although many places and stops to see and acomplish, no particular order nor time frame in which
they had to be made.
From the beginning – breakfast at the
hotel, but we found a wee sweet to stand in for a birthday cake (the bakery
where I had seen chocolate cupcakes the day before hadn’t made them that day so
we had to settle for a “cake financier”,
which is perhaps fitting as literally translated it means financial cake: does
this mean that a windfall is in store for her?
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| Skipping the 90, just put the 1- cake for breakfast is allowed! |
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| Miss Betty and her admirers - in the hotel lobby before leaving for the day. |
In any case the first stop at the Maison du Chocolat saw a windfall of
something: chocolate!
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| Maison du Chocolat and an accommodating salesperson |
On to Galeries
Lafayette and a woman’s favourite pastime: shopping. A few perfume bottles later and we headed for
Notre Dame and the free English guided tour. As said tour turned out to have as
guide a very soft-spoken, heavily accented French women whom, if one was not
directly in front of her, was basically not understandable. We decided that
lunch was more important.
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| Galeries Lafayettes |
Quasimodo’s with fresh lemonade (Miss Betty
kept saying that it was a bit tart so 5 sugars later…), and lemon sugar crepes
= happy tourists with enough energy to buy a few trinkets as souvenirs before
heading back to the hotel for a slight pause.
The big event of the day: a dinner-cruise
on the Seine river to celebrate Miss Betty’s 91st.
Delicious starters (asparagus soup, Caesar
salad, a terrine and several other choices), followed by a selection again of
mains as well as of desserts - all accompanied by a bottle of white and a
bottle of red wine (I do wonder what happens to the leftovers as we only drank
enough to toast her health and I a normal glass, leaving more than enough for
yet another meal).
Dessert and a surprise for Miss Betty - her own personalized birthday sherbet slice - again we stuck to the one candles in order to not melt the sherbert faster than it was already melting in the heat of celebration.
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| Suprised! |
The perfect end to a perfect day.
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