Not too long ago I had several thousand old family photos digitized. It’s been fun looking through them, including finding a number of photos from our trip to France in the year 2000. That summer, Melinda’s grandfather treated his entire family to two weeks in France to celebrate his 90th birthday. We spent a week in Paris and a week in a villa in southern France. I mentioned all of this not too long ago, back on September 2nd this year.

This is one of my favorite photos from that incredible trip. Yes, that’s Ella, age 3. She’s on a carousel under the Eiffel Tower. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Speaking of Ella, it’s hard to believe that she’ll be 15 in December. Soon after that comes her driver’s permit and then soon after that her driver’s license.

I don’t recall her needing a license to ride this horse on the carousel.