Goodbye Paris!

We have had the most awesome summer ever. IT has been so fun and full amazing adventures. We bought 2 weeks of eurail train passes and we're leaving tomorrow to take on europe by train. after that it will be on to Hungary. Crazy. Last weekend we had our final guests over to see Paris with us. I have to say, they were awesome. with them here there were 4 adults and 2 babies thatall slept in our tiny apartment. It was packed but it still worked out like a charm. It was so fun to have my brother and his fam here to celebrate our last days in paris. I'll post pics l8r (maybe today, maybe not) Peace

for the last week we had Cade's mom and aunt here to visit us. It was awesome. WE had so much fun touring around Paris and driving around France. We picked them up from the train station on Wednesday night. ON Thursday we did stuff around paris and on Friday we woke up early and rented a car to drive across the country. IT was so fun. We drove through the loire valley and then to Mont Saint Michel and then to Normandy to see the D day beaches. It was an awesome weekend. We stayed Friday night in the cutest bed and breakfast in the middle of french farmland. It was so darling. On our drive home we stopped in a city that Cade served in on his mission. I guess the church isn't a church any more. The rest of the week we spent around Paris doing all the Paris stuff. It was sad to see them go, but I'm sure they're excited to get out of a tiny one bedroom apartment. We can't wait to see them again at Christmas. We are leaving Paris for our 2 week trip next week. CRAZY! Also, I am now 22 years old. I'm a woman.

view from the top of the eiffel tower

Cade and his Ladies

some of the Loire Valley chateaux

the B&B we stayed in

Mont Saint Michel

view from Mont Saint MIchel

some old barracks at Omaha beach

Omaha Beach

The American Cemetery

The old church in one of Cade's areas on the mish (not a church any more)

up Notre Dame

a cafe with a great view

Walking the streets of Paris

Garden of Versailles

we got attacked by a swan while we were eating lunch.

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my birthday cake

to finish off the trip, we got a crepe.

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what a great model i have

How come every time you come around my London London Bridge wanna go down

its true, we went to london. It was really great. We had so much fun wandering around the city. We only paid and went into Parliament and the rest of the time we found free stuff to do. The cheapest place we found to stay was in a dorm room, so that was funny. For 3 days we lived off bagels and granola bars and croissants. On Monday we decided to treat ourselves so we went to Pizza hut. IT was awesome to eat normal pizza. A few highlights of London were: Big ben tower, Parliament, platform 9 3/4, the british library (we saw tons of original notebooks from composers and authors and the magna carta), double decker buses, London Bridge, buckingham place,sherlock holmes, and just about every building was cool looking. It was really nice to be back in English speaking territory so I could read signs and understand (for the most part) what everyone was saying.
Pictures in no order...

Wild

I can't believe we only have 4 weeks left in Paris. It has flown right by. soon we'll be packing up and heading to Hungary. Wild. Now, what i've been up to. Since Jeannette left I had another visitor (my niece Annie), and I went to Germany. It has been so nice this month to have so many people here and things to do. With Annie we went and saw all the things in Paris, but we also took her to see the chateau Chantilly. It was really cool. The gardens were really cool. They weren't all flowery and well kept they were like woods and patches of wild flowers and lakes and things. I thought it was awesome. I think I could live in a castle. While we were there there was a horse jumping competition going on so we went and watched a few jumps. I thought they would be running real fast and stuff, but it was kinda slow. But, they did jump so it was pretty cool. Pretty sure Annie Loved it. In Germany I stayed with my aunt and uncle. They were awesome. I ate sooo much delicious german food. I think I now weigh double what I used to. It was so fun to be with family and be cooked for constantly.

GERMANY


Donkey fountain


Boat Ride in Louisan Park


Evening Bike Ride


my parents old apartment in germany





FRANCE



We showed Annie the best part of France, baguettes




The gardens and Castle of Chantilly


The horse jumping.