Thursday, September 18, 2008

Paris and London 2008

Finally finally finally some pix from our July trip. The entire photo set can be found at http://gallery.me.com/samanthamason#100057 but here's a nice subset.

Here's us at breakfast, must be the very first day. CAN ANYONE SPOT THE "MORNING PERSON"???

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On one of the first days we got to have lunch at the Jules Verne restaurant which is pretty high up in the Eiffel Tower!

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The boys always have fun at the Tuileries
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Here's the most famous picture from Les Eyzies

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After a few days in Paris we found ourselves in Carcassonne, which is an amazing walled fortress of a place.

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This is the front door of our hotel which was right inside the walled city!

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They had beer there!!

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And we got to watch a jousting match, though not on ostriches

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For Bastille Day there were some amazing fireworks

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Here's the patio outside our hotel room

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This is a closeup of outside one of the churches, some of these guys are hilarious!

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Robert has two heads!

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Then we went WAY out into the countryside and stayed in this tiny little town that didn't even have a restaurant in it (maybe a first for France!).

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Robert and I trying to start an "old man farm"

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Very delicious breakfast at the hotel!

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And a rare pic of Sam!

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Then it was back to Paris for a bit, where we went to the Luxembourg Gardins for a couple hours to have a picnic lunch and let the boys play with the boats in the fountain

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And of course, back to the Tuileries

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Then we took a day trip to Chartres to see the amazing cathedral, and eat lunch of course

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Then we took the Chunnel over to London for a few very hot days

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Fun in the park on a watery fountain!

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Ooooooops!!!!!

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