21

Yesterday I turned 21 years old. I still can’t believe that I was 20…haha the years seem to be flying by faster and faster! That probably sounds cliche, but it’s so true. I usually spend my birthday in Vancouver with a few friends and my immediate family, but this birthday was different.

Photo by Abbye Dahl (more photos from this day to come soon!)

I am in Austria with my parents and my brother. My brother and I decided that we should get some traditional Austrian clothing – lederhosen and dirndl. Where is there a better place to get them, right?! So, we picked out our favourites and got the whole outfit – shoes included! This is what we looked like:

I spent the night looking like this and it was awesome haha. We celebrated with chocolate cake (Danke Heidi!) the day before my birthday because I wanted to go out for dinner on the actual day.

On my birthday I got a lovely skype call from my blurry boyfriend! Thanks Chris! 🙂

The rest of the day I spent with amazing people and coincidentally a lot of daisy-related things haha. “Daisy” perfume, a daisy-chain bracelet, daisy-chain head-dress, and actual daisies in the garden!

My mom got me roses 🙂 
Yes, that is an archway full of bread haha

After walking a bit around town and taking photos, we went out for dinner to a cute little restaurant with a killer view of Graz (Hauserl im Wald) and ate a special Salzburg dessert made mostly of egg-whites (it was good!).

My brother, me, and Carina (basically my older sister except that we aren’t actually related haha)

That was my birthday! Thank you SO much to everyone who made it so special! I still got to spend my birthday with family and friends, just in another country haha I am looking forward to this next year of my life and this next year of my photography business!

Lots of love, Marie

PS Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes and love on facebook!!