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You had to go all the way to France? Wouldn't the Parkway bridge over the Housatonic have worked just as well?
(I used to really like that one :-) )
I live about 3 miles from that bridge (the one over the Housatonic, not the one in Paris). I used to work at the big helicopter factory that you can see while driving over it.
By the way, they are actually replacing that monstrosity with a normal non-grid deck bridge (at a cost of $84 million). The grid deck was fine until they repaired itabout ten years ago. When they put the grates back they didn't line them up with each other, so your car wiggles from side to side as you travel from grate to grate. Always fun on an icy day.
Anyway we found a nice airfare / hotel deal to Paris for a vacation on the anniversary of our first date. She had pretty much guessed what I was going to do, but had no idea exactly where. I thought a bridge would be a romantic setting and found out about this bridge named Pont Marie which was designed by Christopher Marie. Perfect. The day I asked her also happened to be the one sunny day the entire trip. She still beams when she tells the story.
The moral of this story?
- Sometimes those movie moments actually happen.
- Never, ever, fly Air France.