My 23rd Birthday and a Trip to London.

Friends and Family,

I appreciate the well wishes and am fortunate to have had a great weekend and a few things coming up to be excited about.

In celebration of my birthday, the Eiffel Tower people created and displayed a new light show Friday night. The typical light show lasts for a few minutes at the top of the hour, and the Tower sparkles. It's definitely a pretty neat sight, but for the next month, following the premiere Friday night, they are showcasing a fairly psychadelic light show. There were patterns and all colors of the ROYGBIV, sometimes reminiscent of Las Vegas, others of a Lisa Frank era bygone. Add some tripped-out flame-throwers into the mix, and voila - a pretty spectacular beginning to a birthday weekend.

[Disclaimer: the light show is actually being conducted to celebrate the anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, and not my birth.]

Saturday presented a fun-filled afternoon of shopping and exploring, mostly at Chatelet, which is a huge mall connected to the metro station, and a cool spread of shops and cafes and such above ground in the surrounding vicinity as well. Carey was sweet enough to buy me some birthday lunch at a neat pizzeria. Oh, and I got a great couple of things at H&M that I shan't mention considering there may have been some Christmas gift finds for some certain friends and/or sister. :) I had a fun day Sunday at church, working through the impossibilities of Jesus in Mark 10, and the disconnect that we face between being unflinchingly compassionate and being utterly obedient. It's another of those impossibilities that we must not 'balance' these aspects of our faith, but that we must be 100% of each. Obviously, it's impossible for us; and why it is so stinking incredible that we have a Lord of impossibilities.

And now I am in London.

All of French schools have Toussaint [All Saints] Holiday break for the next week and a half, so I have taken off [with the family] to London for the week! We are staying in a pretty rad flat in South Ken [so posh using the abbrevs.] which is close to the coolest museums and only a couple of tube stops from the other major to-do's in London. Plus a few of things that aren't on my personal list, but that are still fun, I will get to do here and there with Jennifer [the boss] and the kids during the mornings. We're here for a whole week, so that gives me six afternoons to get a chunk of this town under my belt.

I'll keep you posted.

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