View From The Porch: Belated Happy Bastille Day.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Belated Happy Bastille Day.

Yesterday was the day they put on a big parade-and-fireworks extravaganza in Paris to celebrate my mom's birthday.

Hope it was a good one!

11 comments:

Fred said...: Your mom has the same birthday as Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis.

I guess I get kinda geeky towards the end of a night shift...; 7:49 AM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: Mom left Paris on Monday, therefore the Bastille Day (Fete De La Nationale) was held in a pouring rain. (The city cried)Also, the President's garden party was canceled. They say it was done as a symbolic austerity measure, but I know they canceled the garden party because mom would not be there. Carla was relieved; she hates having someone receiving more attention than she receives.; 8:41 AM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: Mom and I are glad to know that your terrible headache is in the past.; 8:44 AM, July 15, 2010
Don M said...: Bastille day always gives me the headache too.; 8:48 AM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: Your mother stormed the bastille?

Explains SO much.; 8:51 AM, July 15, 2010
BobG said...: It was my wife's birthday also; of course she is old enough to be your mom.; 9:18 AM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: Bon anniversaire Mere!

Best,
McVee; 9:33 AM, July 15, 2010
Jay G said...: Thanks. Now I have Rush's "Bastille Day" stuck in my head...

Then again, there are worse songs...; 10:11 AM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: 'Twas said that there is no sin in Paris on Bastille Day. Most anything goes. That was indeed a wondrous concept for a 22-year-old GI to contemplate.

So, "Don't just sit there and contemplate! Act!"

And so I did. One of those "When in Rome..." deals, I guess.

Art; 2:00 PM, July 15, 2010
Pathfinder said...: My Mom's birthday too. Small world . . . .; 10:03 PM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...: No, it is celebration of MY birthday!; 10:01 AM, July 16, 2010