Tuesday, November 4, 2014

London and Paris and a bit of Ireland


A trip to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendalough here in Ireland

Old church in Glendalough


Mt Bike Ride in Wicklow, takes about 45min to ride to ride each way to and from to do a few small laps of the mt bike area.    

Everett proud of his new smile with one less tooth in it.  Double click it to enlarge.

A trip to the east coast, no waves but lots of wind for the wind surfers.  One of the less great weather day in Ireland, a few more of those to come.

Another Wicklow Ride.  Sept was really dry and mild we had some great weather days to be outside.
Surf day to the west coast in Sept.  Great waves and weather on this Saturday.  Water was warm enough for the 3/2 wetsuit and for the kids to play in it for a good 30min before being overcome by shivers.




We were in Paris for Halloween, they really don't do Halloween so the kids didn't get to trick or treat.  They were pretty angry about that.  But we had lots of treats along the way during our week of travel.  However the day before we left we carved pumpkins with friends and gave away them the pumpkins.  Plus the kids got two candy care packages.  The first from friends in the neighborhood and the second all the way from Las Cruces from grandma.
First stop in London off the plane and train ride into town was Buckingham Palace.  We watched the changing of the guard and this is a monument out front.

lots of walking the city streets

Hop on hop off bus tour with the topless double decker bus to see all the London sites.



Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Not London Bridge, it's Tower Bridge


London Castle, metal flowers to represent fallen soldiers covered the ground around the outside.

Everett's head on the chopping block





Soldier test to hold the gun on target for 20sec.  Hanna passes.

Cannon Balls

River boat tour down to the 0 Meridan, Greenwhich.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian_(Greenwich)


Yippee Paris and the Louvre!  How great it is to show your kids really old stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris

Art

Perfect place to see the day before Halloween


Stacking bones is art



Everybody wants the perfect picture of Lisa, Those already exist.  I wanted a picture of people taking pictures.

Stolen Art from somewhere in Egypt (so the Egyptians stay and want it back)

Venus De Milo

Woo Hoo, outside not inside



Up in the Eiffel Tower

The first level has a new section of glass floor.  See the small dots of people below?  It was harder to step out onto than I thought it would be.

More walking

Another old church.  They are all very impressive all over Europe.
A French Fountain