Friday, February 16, 2007

Post-Valentine's Day Treat

I just remembered this morning that I forgot to show you the fun thing the city of Paris did on Valentine’s Day. The town hall allowed all 170 electronic billboards to display love messages—like in the US when you go to a football game. People have proposals, birthday, and anniversary wishes, for example, posted on the reader board for all to view at half time. In this case, anyone could post a message on a web site and every 20 seconds throughout the day, the messages scrolled across the billboards.

My question was---what if I posted a message…would I have to stand there in the rain all day to see it displayed? Or tell my Valentine to spend all day standing in the rain…? The first one says, “Jean-Pierre, for me you are the sun and the moon. – Geraldine” And the other, “Each day, you are my oxygen, my ray of sun. I love you, Jeremie, your little heart."