Short trip back to Paris

Special occasion: my old friend, Laure, is getting married.
Who would have thought this? It's always weird thinking someone you grew up with is building his/her future as an adult.

So I took a ticket and came back for that particular occasion. On the day, I went a bit earlier at Laure's place to see if all was ok. She already went to the hairdresser and Daphné was ready to do her make up.
There was a little tension in the air that showed me that day wasn't a common day. Sylvie, her mum and my Godmother, was running everywhere to have everything sorted and Laure was moaning as usual. :)

I came back home to get prepared and met my mum and brother who were all dressed up too. 15-30 min before the meeting time, Daffy called me to help her with the bride and groom flowers. We rushed to the flower shop and saw, before all guests, the flowers taht Laure would have on all pictures. It was a very nice little bunch of various flowers.

I finally came back to pick my mum and brother up and all together, we left for the other side of the road to the city hall, as the wedding was taking place in Levallois.

After having waited for a while due to some delay, we finaly took place in the wedding room of our beautiful city hall and the deputy mayor started the speech. He talked about both parties, talked about the link each and everyone had with the city of Levallois and all summed up it was a nice ceremony.

Straight after, we left to Laure's parents' place and had the little "party". I had the occasion to talk to Antoine, which I hadn't seen in 2 years, since our separation, and it all went very well.
The party finished late at night (or should I better say, early morning) and everyone seemed satisfied with the day.

I really wish this wedding will go well in time. I may haven't seen Laure in ages and we may not agree all the time on everything but she will remain forever someone I do care about. Let's wish them the best of happiness.

Unknown and great!

Lyon. Everyone told me it's a nice city so I decided to go and have a look... and, as often, Cécilia followed me in my adventure.

We had decided to go there on the week-end after Cécilia's birthday. It was Easter, so we'd have a 3 days week-end and that would be a nice way to celebrate Cécilia's 24 years of age.

Cécilia's mother absolutely wanted us to have a guide there so she gave her number to some fellow she sort of know.

DAY 1: On the day, we were sitting in our 1st class chair (yes, it was as expensive as 2nd class so...) when we received a call from Ludovic, our "guide". He said he would come to pick us up at our hotel in the evening.

With Cécilia we arrived and went straight to the hotel to visit it (our visit was half professional, that was the only way to get the accomodation for free) then decided to have lunch in a typical restaurant as Francis told us Lyon is the capital of gastronomy. What he didn't tell us was that Lyon's gastronomy is based on tripes and offals. So we had some "tablier de sapeur" and an "andouillette aux tripes" and after two bites we just wanted to have desert! Tripes are just awful!

After this culinary experience, we went for a walk to have a first view of the city. Pretty disappointing as we were expecting something more modern. the city actually looks like an Italian one!

Coming back to the hotel, we decided to go to the Spa as no one was there and we still had time before Ludovic called. The problem was: we didn't think of taking of bathsuits with! Nevermind! We went in underwears!! Great time in the jacuzzi taking pictures and relaxing.
In the evening Ludovic came and introduced us to his brother Max and all together we went for a drink and a chat, then for a bite and finaly we ended up in a great dancing bar, drinking, dancing, laughing... We got on very well straight away all together and we really had a great time!
Back at the hotel at 4 am!

DAY 2: Up at 9 am to enjoy the wonderful buffet breakfast and change hotel. Once settle up in the other, we used the velo'v (public bycicle!) to cross the city and arrive in the Parc de la Tête d'Or. This is such a nice place. I don't know how many hectars of parc there is there but the place is huge enough to have a lake in the middle! As we ran out of batery in our camera, we agreed to come back there the next morning to do a shooting session.

Max an Ludo came to pick us up in the evening and again we went to take the aperitif and finaly spent the evening chatting in a tropical pub. There again, just great!
Came back at the hotel at 5 am.

DAY 3: After the traditional awesome breakfast, we headed with the velo'v to the Parc de la Tête d'Or for our shooting session and did some very nice pictures!
Guys joined us and together we rented a pedalo. It was a 30 min ride laughing and enjoying.
Then after one last bite, we left for the train station.

What I really liked about this week-end was that we met these two guys and we got on so well together that it just seemed to everyone that we've been knowing each other for 10 years!
We had a really great time and now we look forward welcoming them here, in Nice.