Drinks on Heather, in Paris . . .

I played a little guessing game yesterday on Twitter when @ParisHeather (Paris Stimmler-Hall of Secrets of Paris fame). It started with a Tweet that included this photo

 and a challenge:

Free drink for the first person who guesses where in Paris this photo was taken. instagr.am/p/UBjURpR-Xk/
— Stimmler-Hall (@ParisHeather) January 3, 2013

Well, you know I love a challenge, and a challenge that allowed me to daydream about Paris instead of finishing the outlines for the courses I start teaching next Monday?
Suffice it to say I spent some time Tweeting guesses during the day. . . .

@parisheather Comedie-Francaise? Richelieu?
— Materfamilias (@Materfam) January 3, 2013

@parisheather One more guess. Is it in the Jardin des Plantes at the Natural History Museum?
— Materfamilias (@Materfam) January 3, 2013 

@materfam No, but you're getting closer!
— Stimmler-Hall (@ParisHeather) January 3, 2013

Finally, last night, after having thanked @parisheather for the fun and claiming to throw in the towel, I couldn't resist hazarding one more guess, and
ta-da. . . .

It is the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, in the 13th. Congrats @materfam instagr.am/p/UDvFB-R-T4/
— Stimmler-Hall (@ParisHeather) January 4, 2013

I'm excited to look ahead to May in Paris, having drinks with Stimmler-Hall who by then should be able to tell me what it's like to run the Paris Marathon (Pater and I watched it run by, from the Coulée Verte, in 2011). Even better, Heather's run the Marathon du Médoc, the ultimate craziness for runners who love wine . . . .

We've booked our flights for this year's travels, which will include some new experiences and places that I'm excited to tell you about soon. And although my New Year's resolution once again is to Want what I Have, I do have one new goal that this runner is working up the nerve to go public with . . .

For now, though, those damn course outlines are not going to write themselves. Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work I go . . . .
And you? How's 2013 shaping up for you, this shiny new week?