I turned 21 yesterday! I just wanted to pop by and document the day real quick. No pretty or artsy photos. Just iPhone photos in janky lighting. But good good memories. I also vlogged the day as I’ve been challenging myself to vlog this whole week, and it’s been going strong since Monday. Hopefully I’ll make it until the end of the week so that you can you can look out for daily vlogs on my channel throughout next week!
I had hoped to get this post out earlier in the summer so that those of you in Philly would have time to pop by and see this event for yourself if you didn’t already, but the blog got pretty crazy from my trip to Europe! It’s now the last week of August, but nevertheless, here it is!
This entire month has been content from my Europe trip! I hope you’ve enjoyed following along. I know I enjoyed following along my dad on his business trip to Cambridge, which was the whole reason for this whirlwind trip through three cities in ten days. (You might be thinking, hold up Audrey, according to your blog posts, you spent two days in each city so how does that add up? Well, if you take into account travel days and the one lost day in London, it amounts to roughly ten days.)
I made a selective list of touristy things I wanted to do in Paris, and one of the top items on the list was getting a box of six macarons from Ladurée. After Mom had her fun on the Champs-Élysées at Louis Vuitton and Hermès, it was my turn to have fun at Ladurée. We entered through the bakery rather than the restaurant, got our desserts to-go, and enjoyed them by the French windows of our Airbnb, free of tourists (except for ourselves) and softly glowing in natural lighting (much friendlier for my photos than Ladurées dim lighting). To complete the ambience, I played Spotify’s coffee table jazz playlist.
Since I only had two days in Paris, Ariane and I made sure to meet up before I left, as she was there for her summer internship. We met on the swim team when I was a first-year at Bryn Mawr, and now she’s graduated and off to grad school in England in the fall! Anyways, she was trying to find a hip place she thought I would like, and she hit the nail right on the head. Cue Hubsy. I’m obsessed!
We celebrated Ken’s birthday on our last day in Paris with pastries from Angelina. His only request was a raspberry macaron and the rest of it was up to us. He is not a boy who wants much, except to be left alone to game to his content, and to have the occasional dessert.