From Fat Feet to Fat Tires

As I finish this trip up I am going to try to blog more and bring you all the fun details of my last week.

A week ago if someone asked me, "Nicole, how fabulous was Paris?" I probably would of anwsered, "Eh, it wasn't my favorite."

But, after one day, it is rising on the charts. Maybe it was because my first impression of Paris was after 36 hours of travel, exhausted, and cold and rainy, that I wasn't really all that excited to come back. Plus, I thought what am I going to do there for 6 whole days..... Well, I've been proved long.

I arrived yesterday and checked into my hostel, cleaned up and out I went. My plan, was to take the Fat Tire City Night Bike Tour. Now, as some of you may know, this was the company for which I orgionally had planned to work for, and how I planned to spend my summer in Paris. I was a little iffy to take the tour because it meant seeing what my summer could of been like, and I wasn't sure I wanted to go there, especially in my last week. But I did. And the tour was absolutely fabulous! I would recommend it to anyone who ever comes to Paris. Riding a bike through Paris, at sunset, is something out of a movie. And you finish the tour with a boat ride on the Seine, taking off as the Eiffel Tower "sparkles" for the first time of the night. And as I was sitting there on the boat, drinking wine and talking to our tour guide, Andrew, who just so happens to be from St. Louis (weird!), I realized something....

Things definetly happen for a reason, and life has a plan to it. Yes, working for Fat Tire probably would of been a blast, but had that worked out I probably wouldn't have seen all the places that I have, nor would I have met all the people that I have met. But more importantly, I would of probably left town before Eric and I were able to hash things out and I probably wouldn't be engaged right now. It's weird to think how close I was to having a completely different life rolled out before me.

Fat Tire Bike Company will probably never know what a significant role they have played in my life. Their rejection of my application lead me to the best 10 weeks of my life, and set me up for a future I am so excited to begin.

Alright, alright, none of you signed up to read about my theories on life paths, etc...

I will leave you this morning with the image of the Eiffel Tower shining at night.

And, if you can, try to picture 4 really horrible street dancers lip syncing to Michael Jackson's Billy Jean underneath the Tower. I watched in amazement for a good 15 minutes yesterday.