Papa's birthday

For this year's birthday the candles from Mia's 16'th birthday could be recycled 

The traditional birthday present from Mia is some chocolate

We tried a selfie with a new remote control

The birthday dinner was another tradition: The dish with rice, ground meet and peppers that was also the birthday dish when growing up

 

Nisha's birthday

 For Nishas's birthday Mia had worked for a long time on a booklet with pictures and other memories

She also got a lava cake as birthday cake

 

  

Shopping in Frankfurt

 To find a new jeans for Mia we went all the way to Frankfurt with Nisha as a fashion consultant

 But first it was lunch time at Chipotle - one of only two in Germany

Monday in Paris

Our last day in Paris started with a meeting close to Galeries Lafayette: Next door was an Asian markets were we found many nice goodies

Then it was time for some lunch at an Japanese pan cake restaurant. The pan cakes were really fluffy and the cream in the side very generous

 

While we were eating and talking it had started to snow outside and we stepped out into a different city

Since there is no snow on La Reunion everybody enjoyed the white surprise

The Louvre was only a short walk away

 

We had to get back to our hotel in the later afternoon to catch our train 

Because of the snow there was a huge delay and instead of 10:16 pm we arrived at 1:27 am in the middle of the night in Mannheim. Fortunately the number 5 tram was still running. Later we got some of the ticket price back

 

Sunday in Paris

After another nice breakfast at the hotel we headed to Montmartre where Mia wanted to see a house close to Sacré-Coeur that was in a movie she watched (The summer I turned pretty)

Around the corner it was very crowded and touristy

 Time for some bubble tea

After trying to find a toilette on Champs-Élysées we met our friends for some ice skating at the Grand Palais

Discussing some serious issues:

With the sun setting the light turned magically

Then the special light effects started

After the ice skating we headed to the Champs-Élysées at night

A stop the the Stranger Things sales event at Galeries Lafayette

 
Expensive cars in a  side street with fancy stores

Interesting people as well

Then we ended our walk at the Palais de Trocadéro with a view of the Eiffel tower

 Just in time for the sparkling at 22.00 h

Then we had time for some group pictures

Back at the hotel close to midnight were the metro station was covered with advertisement for a new Netflix show