Was rather excited about my birthday yesterday, especially as I knew I'd be spending it with Cea who missed my 18th given that we live in two different countries as a rule, so this would be the first and last birthday in a while that we could celebrate together. We all stayed up late to welcome it in and once it got to midnight UK time (even though I'd counted it from midnight French time, ah well...technically I had a 26 hour birthday, can't complain! :P) Nans saw fit to abandon the computer game her had been playing for the best part of the afternoon wish me happy birthday and then consequently challenge me to a light-saber fight...why I'll never know, although knowing Nans I know full well that this is something normal, strange as it may seem...and granted I won! :) After all that excitement we all retired to bed given that we had to be up early for my 'surprise' on Wednesday morning.
Woke up on Wednesday to Cea and Nans rather amusingly jumping on me singing Happy Birthday...who needs an alarm clock when you have a best mate and her boyfriend to jump on you when you least expect it? haha :) Once they actually let me get up I saw there was a sign on the kitchen door saying 'Birthday Girls: Keep Out!' so I knew they were planning something else, again I had no idea what. She also admitted to me on leaving that she had conspired with my Mum with regards to my surprises...
We left the apartment for my first surprise and obviously I had no idea where we were going, not only because it was a surprise but also because it was my first proper venture out into Grenoble city centre. We initially headed over to the train/coach station where we met Cea's mum and youngest sister who had travelled over especially from the Ardeche and I was very pleased to see them as again I hadn't seen them in two and a half years- Alanna, Cea's sister has grown up so much, i can't believe it, time seriously flies!! After meeting up with them we headed off, again with me having no idea as to where we were going and it was only when we were about 2 minutes away from the cable car (télépherique) that Cea said 'Can you guess where we are going yet?', then it all became perfectly obvious. We took the cable car up to the Bastille where we realised that we were early for the reservation at the restaurant there, so we admired the view for a while and took lots of photos, Cea taking my Mum's request to heart, haha :)
After we had our meal we had another explore and took more photos before heading back to Cea and Nans' apartment where me and Nans in turn proceeded to have balloon fights with Alanna, who said turning 21 meant you had to act your age? :) While we were back Cea suprised me too with a cake and everyone sang happy birthday to me...I later found out she had made it at 8am that morning, which then made me realise why there was the sign on the kitchen door. I blew all the candles out with help from Alanna and then we all sat down to a slice of cake which, all credit to Cea was great! :)
Over lunch Cea and I had decided rather spontaneously to travel back to the Ardeche with Jackie and Alanna that night for an overnight stay so that I could see the rest of her family whilst I was on the East side of France, so we had to get all our things together ready to go to the train stations to get the two trains back. We rather pratically decided to pass the time on the train by quizzing Alanna in English (given that her English has improved a lot since the time I visited!!) and soon enough we arrived back in Tournon and then had to drive back to their house in Vion, where we ate and decided to go to bed given that we were tired after our rather epic day! Alanna also had the chance to give me her present which she had been looking forward to all day given that they originally left it at home by accident. Jackie, who is an artist made me a mirror using my two favourite colours (seems this conspiracy is bigger than first thought...) and Alanna had done me a card using both my favourite animal and my favourite colours. Good effort Ceall, I have to say, lol.
My mirror and card
Have to say I had a great birthday and I can't wait for the other celebrations that are going to follow, both back in Pau with my friends there and also back in England with my friends and family during the Easter holidays! Thankyou also to everyone who left me messages/sent me texts too, they mean a lot! :)
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