My birthday. I had some cake. Great day: We took the metro for the first time. The metro rocks! Cheap, easy, convienient, fast. Everything public transit should be. So our first metro destination was the Tour Eiffel, but we didn't tell Emma where we were headed. We got off the metro at the bir hakeim stop and went upstairs and walked toward it and let Emma discover it. She was thrilled (Mommy, Daddy, I found the Eiffel Tour!! It's right there!!! I found it!!!) Very cool for that to happen. We didn't go up, but walked around underneath and enjoyed the atmosphere. We took some pictures (Emma against the tower to be posted soon, really). and then went home. Holly went shopping and cooked a great birthday dinner capped off by a fabulous cake from a local patisserie.