La Fete Nationale-Bastille Day

Today, is the French National Holiday. Bastille Day celebrating the capture of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789. My host mother woke me up at approximately 9:50am to come into the living room for breakfast and to watch the Parade on T.V. Now, in the U.S. on July 4th  I'm usually seated on the curb in the proper location to pick up free candy. But, in the French capital in order to grab front seats you need to get there at 5am or earlier and wait for the parade to start at 10am.

The rest of the day was spent relaxing and enjoying the day off from school. The thing to do in Paris on the 14th of July is to watch the concert in front of the Eiffel Tower on the Champs de Marse and then to watch the fire works display (feu d'artifice: en francais). The fireworks display was possibly not the most amazing I've ever seen, but it was played in perfect timing to Broadway songs.

In between singing and capturing a few photos of the Eiffel Tower and all the fireworks, I couldn't help but think to myself "God, what an amazing summer."