Bonjour from Paris

We arrived safely in Paris. We took the chunnel train to Paris and arrived yesterday morning to a beautiful spring day in the City of Lights. As usual, we didn't want to waste a single second so we started running around the town hitting all of the main highlights.

Our rooms are wonderful and in a great location- down the street and take a left from the Eiffel Tower! Seriously- it's like a distant neighboor.

The food is also wonderful here, as well. We made the mistake of showing Mom where a bakery is next to the hotel, and now all she can talk about is how to get some of the pastries back to everyone at home. I think if she tried to bring some back, they wouldn't even make it to the airport because everything is so delicious!

We've spent some time at 2 of our favorite art museums: Musee de Orsay and the Louvre. There is never enough time here to see all that we want to view.

Here is just one picture of us outside the Louvre, but I promise that once we are done we will do major posts about stories and include tons of pictures and videos.






One of my favorite parts so far was being able to see the Eiffel Tower at night. The last time we were in Paris Jason and I saw it first thing in the morning, but Mom and Dad wanted to see it at

night. All I can say is that we missed something so magical and wonderful. I remember thinking that the Eiffel Tower was this huge, impressive work of art that I greatly admired, but seeing it at night just makes you think how beautiful it is and it makes you fall in love with it- and with the one you are kissing under it! This video is when we were going for a walk at night and we are within a walking distance of the tower and I forgot that the sparkling lights happened so I was so shocked when I saw this:

London

Hello from London! It has been such a wonderful trip so far. Obviously we have made it safe and sound and are showing my parents the way London works. I just love London and how we get the convenience of modern day luxuries but we also get a historical experience around every corner. We haven’t even had time to stop to post some pictures, but here are a few to wet your appetite for when we get home and can post some more and tell the stories in full.

Here we are in front of Portobello Road, made famous in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Here we are enjoying the British Museum after viewing the Rosetta Stone.

Here we are shopping in one of the best shopping streets in London, Camden Locks.

This is a picture of all of us near Westminster in Parliament Square with Big Ben in the background.


In this picture you can see the great view from the London Eye. On the Eye you can see almost all of the major sites in London. We love going on the Eye and going on a long and relaxing journey with a 360 degree view of the city. The funny thing is that we actually got stuck in our little pod capsule for a few extra minutes. It was anything we were worried about because we got more than our money’s worth out of the trip.

Honestly there are so many great stories from just this one part of the trip that we will have a lot of writing to do when we get the time- which means you won’t get to know until after the trip. Tomorrow (today actually since it is 12:30am) we are waking up in a few hours to jump on the train for Paris. Hopefully our schedule will allow for more blog posts. Cheers!

I looked out the window and what did I see?

Popcorn popping on the apricot tree.

Favorite Picture Friday: March 4th, 2011

Hi! So, Lisa normally gets to do this, but I got to the computer before she did today. So, I wanted to post a map of where we are going. You can see the cities with the general route we are taking to get there. We like the call our trip a "Quick Sprint Through Europe." We are starting in London, then moving on to Paris, then Rome, and finally ending up in Venice. The other exciting feature to our trip is what we are taking with us. It's not luggage or anything of that sort- it's Betty and Barry. We love traveling and we are glad that they are willing to let us show them Europe. We are getting ready to go, so we may not be able to post anything else before the trip, so definitely look for updates from Europe!

View Trip Cities in a larger map

Month in Review: February

I can't believe it is already March! It feels like Christmas was just a couple of weeks ago, but now we are heading towards Springtime. Also, now that it is March it is really starting to set in that we are getting ready to leave on our trip to Europe in just a few days. It usually doesn't fully hit me that we are leaving until we are on the plane.
Anyways, we have decided to start a new monthly blog post called "Month in Review." Each month I look through the pictures we've taken and laugh at all of the random ones that didn't make it on the blog. So, at the end of each month we will post those photos that deserve some recognition.


Here is cute Drew who just won a ton of tickets at Pirate Pizza. Whenever there is a school holiday, we usually end of eating lunch at Pirate Pizza, our nephews favorite place to eat. Their new thing is to win as many tickets as possible in the game room. Obviously they are quite good at this!

During President's Day weekend we had our cousins come down and enjoy the warm weather. We all had a big dinner that was concluded with watching our nephews and the cousins playing games and making us all laugh.
Here is Melissa in her pillow fort we built.

Melissa and Aubrey playing catch.

When I attended my conference up in Ogden I was lucky enough to go hang out with my brother, Easton. He took me on a tour of Ogden, we played games at his house, and we also went and played minature golf. Here are some pictures of where we went and played that was decorated like the ocean and pirates. Pretty cool!

Easton making a winning shot. He totally killed me!

Earlier this month we went and saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir when they performed at Dixie State College. It was so amazing! The best part of the whole performance was when Mayor Dan went up and performed "Are you from Dixie" with the rest of the choir.

Finally here is a picture of the gang going shooting. Honestly I don't even remember when this was, but it is most likely some weekend morning that we needed to get out.

February was a fast and fun month, where Jason and I were busy doing everything from the Parade of Home to traveling to Price for a baby blessing. We hope you had a wonderful month as well and are looking forward to another great month.