Millennium Plans

Getting an 'eye-ful'
of 2000
Four days after I graduated from college in December 1999, I boarded a plane with my sister to Paris in search of my own "joie de vivre!" After we touched down in Paris on Christmas Eve, we hit the town before the millennium bug hit us.

My sixth-floor walk-up apartment in the 8th arrondissement had a view of the Eiffel Tower, although I had to get up on a footstool to see the very top of it. I remember each night staring at it before going to bed. After the fireworks New Year's Eve, it would sparkle for fifteen minutes every half hour. Being in Paris at this time was a dream come true.

My apartment with a view of the...Eiffel Tower!