Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Switzerland!


When we arrived in Crans-Montana..we got to meet these amazing ladies who performed for us. The one standing is 82 years old and her sisters are in their 70's. They were funny and AMAZING!

Jefferson (my apparent illegitimate stepson) was our own personal Freddy Mercury. Just don't ask him to do the Helen Keller....he will!

Swiss towns are so CUTE!

Yeah for the cloudy day at the Matterhorn! This is us all saying "Brown Bus!" Why he made us say that I will Never know!
Pit stop in Dijon....that's right the Mustard Captiol!

Am I the most amazing photographer of ducks or what?!

So we toured this Castle Chillon and then spent the day in Montreaux (Smoke on the water)!

Zermatt had the most interesting Alps people ever! Doesn't he just look Swiss?

This is some of the kids on the ski lift in the Alps. I am taking the picture!

Montreaux is AMAZING! and BEAUTIFUL!


So when we left France we drove and drove until we arrived in the Alps. We were surrounded by Grape vineyards and water and obviously mountains! The kids on tour made this an amazing place. We ate more chocolate than is legal and most kids came home with 18 pounds of it to give away! It was so beautiful and the weather was fantastic the entire time...except for the day we went up to see the Matterhorn...then it was cloudy! Next stop...Liechtenstein!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Cary's European Vacation - France

France was beautiful...ghetto...amazing...and smelled like pee....all rolled into one! We experience rain for a lot of the time there...

This first pic is of the Opera House (Phantom of the Opera!)
This is the inside of Notre Dame! It was so Beautiful!

The OUTSIDE of Notre Dame

This is our One Week Anniversary of when we met!
These are my girls! Alyssa, Kortne, and Katie. They were amazing young women!
This is also just a few hours after I realized that I had erased over 700 pictures of my trip! MORON!

Climbing the 18 million steps up the Eiffel Tower


We spent some time in the Louvre...where I met Mona Lisa.

Still the Louvre...Angels and Demons anyone?

The famous Moulin Rouge...on the same street as all the rest of the RED LIGHT district!
We were supposed to be looking at the Napoleon trees!

This was also quite a hike...up above this were the artist's quarters.
This is where we got mobbed by people wanting to draw you!
It was scary!
After the days of touring Paris...we always went to eat at the same place. It was a resturaunt and it was the most AMAZING french food I will ever eat. The funny thing is that it always came out looking bland, then you would bite into it and it was incredible! I was trying to speak French but the only word I could remember was Toilette!

Cary's European Vacation - London

Europe was so AMAZING! I never imagined in a million years that I would get to do something so wonderful! I had the time of my life. In fact, I found upon returning home, that I missed Europe and those kids more than I could describe! It was a learning and growing experience with many new friends made along the way. So here is the story of my trip.....



We got there and everyone was driving on the wrong side of the road...of course we knew this was the case, but it sure was hard to get used to!














One of the nights there, we went to see Wicked! I love this musical!














Brandy is the gal that I went with...this is us in front of Parliment!














Westminster Abbey was pretty much as cool as I thought it would be!


















Changing of the Guard and Buckingham Palace.














Tower Bridge

All of us on the steps of St. Paul...feed the birds tuppens a bag!


Shakespear's Globe Theater...this is the REAL one!!! Not the Adams in Cedar City!
Windsor Palace...the Queen was here when we were touring!
This is a memorial thing at the spot where the chopping block used to be where Henry the VIII had all those people beheaded.


As you can imagine...there were many other things that we saw...but I am too lazy to upload ALL the pictures!!! There were over a thousand afterall! LOL!
Coming Soon....France!