[HPFGU-OTChatter] greetings on a most unusual day

[bettedavisgreen at aol.com]

Dans un e-mail daté du 14/07/2003 05:52:25 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), 
Erthena at aol.com a écrit :

> As a friend of mine commented to me, it's a very wierd day (if you 
> count a day as a 24 hour period of time,which most insomniacs like 
> us do).  It contains both the full moon (as werebears retain 
> sentience I am writing this with oversized bear claws and wondering 
> why it could wait till morning)  and bastille day the french 
> independence day.  This is at least an interesting occourence and I 
> thought it deserved mentioning.  Now I'm going to have a kodiak 
> moment and roar at anyone who wakes me up for the next 8 hours.
> --loony
> "awwww look it's a kodiak moment"  --The genie in Aladin and the 
> King of Thieves
> 
> 

And I must say the Arc du Triomphe with a huge full moon just above, 
yesterday night, was simply awesome... Great pic. But as there were so many policemen 
and soldiers in the Etoile preparing for the big 14th July parade, we couldn't 
stop to take it...

I did manage to take a couple near the Eiffel tower, if you want I can give 
you a link in a couple of days, after I've developped the film.

We were at 4 in the morning driving down the Champs Elysées, looking at all 
the preparations, a couple of hours before they closed the whole area, and all 
the soldiers, tanks, and horses marched... I'm not french, and actually I've 
never liked them very much. But things like this make me have to agree they do 
also have a great history, and they can certainly show it... (I'm portuguese, 
huge history, but no skills in celebrating it...)

Cristina


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