Birthday Dinner

I reckon this deserves it's own post all to itself.

After many months in the planning, finally the big moment arrived. We got all dressed up in our glad rags and called a taxi. This journey was only meant to take 20 minutes or so but unfortunately, Paris rush hour traffic had other ideas.

 
We took an hour to get to the Eiffel Tower, but once we got there, we went straight up to the booth to get our ticket for the lift and headed up to the tower. It was lit up with lights and looked quite golden. As we stood underneath and looked up it really is massive. Another gasp moment. It didn't take long for the lift to arrive and soon we were making our way up the Tower. We were a little early for our sitting so we took some time to take in the view. You can see for miles and it looks so pretty with all the night time lights. So at 9 pm we went into the restaurant, 58 Tour Eiffel, and were seated in our window table with a perfect view out to the Trocadero. Simply beautiful.

 

 

 

Our menu was on our table ready for us to see what delights we were about to have and the moment we sat down our glass of champagne arrived and we had a toast for my birthday.

 At this point, I would have to say, I was so thrilled and happy I could have cried. Everything was just superb. We had a wee taste of something that wasn't on the menu, but seemed to be some sort of white dressing, tomato and avocado.

Following this we had a prawn dish.......



.......and then a scallop dish.

Main course was roast duck.



All the while this was being served we had the glass of champagne, some white wine and some red wine. So it was no surprise that by this time we were both beginning to feel the influence of the alcohol. But who is worrying about that. Every dish was beautifully presented, a delight to the eyes and also of course to taste as well.
 

Dessert was a taste sensation. Yummy chocolate slabs, with raspberries and cream in between. Yum!.....

......and topped with real gold leaf......which is edible!

The waiters were so nice and the service very slick, but having said that this whole dinner took about 2 1/2 hours to complete. The Tower closes at 11.45pm so we made our way down in the lift and got a taxi back to the hotel; this time only taking 20 minutes or so. This has been the most incredible time of my life and I am truly grateful for this trip and Colin who has helped to make this whole holiday a reality. I will never forget turning 50 that's for sure.