Thoughts on Paris

As I sat in the plane awaiting take off I had a flash back to myself in high school, taking French classes, never thinking I'd actually every go and visit France. I didn't even have a passport. Then I thought, what if I had taken it more seriously and saved up the money to go on a school sponsored trip, I'd have been sitting in the plane awaiting take off with all the giddy excitement a teen can muster. Then I looked at myself now, 35 years old and exhausted at 5:35pm. Sad from leaving two small children with their first babysitter (non-family) and I had to smile at the difference 18 years will make.