A great place to celebrate your 30th

I was in Paris once before. New Years 2008 just only a short while ago. Being my first time I of course had a vision of beauty and unfriendliness all rolled into one. The first was most certainly true, the second most certainly not. I was visiting my girlfriend who is French so of course I was getting a better introduction than most. But over and over again people were friendly open and when I met people with even the tiniest few words in English (way more than my French) they made an effort. All went against what I'd heard about Parisians. So when I went back two weeks ago to celebrate my 30th it was with great enthusiasm! Meeting my girlfriend and a few other friends, one from Australia, she had just arrived that weekend, we ambled around Paris eating cheese and drinking wine and making a balls of trying to communicate in our limited French. Maybe its my advancing years but I've never been happier to wander around and not end up drinking out my shoes and arguing with some one about something I probably don't know to much about. Saying that I did end up suffering the mild slings and arrows of a hangover on the Sunday, I turned 30 not 75, but it was all worth it when that we ended up having dinner, drinking Champagne while looking out a the Arc Du Triumph. Vive La France!!!!!!!! Il be heading back in March to spend ten days writing my thesis. I assume of course cheese, bread and wine help with the old lyrical and analytical writing.