“The museum is closed” was our welcome at the Louve this morning. Bummer dude. We should have known that on Tuesdays the Louve was closed, it says so in our books. So we went to the Musee d’Orsay instead. We spend a few hours looking at the impressionist paintings and…
This morning we started out to Saint Chappelle, a small church made in the 1200s for the Crown of Thorns said to have been worn by Christ at his crucifixion. The church is filled with stained glass windows 80 feet high. The light that comes through them is spectacular. This…
Yes but of course we had to take Mom to Disneyland Paris. After having an odd night of sleep, I woke up at 3am very hungry – time change is harsh! We ate breakfast a bit later and walked across Pont Neuf to the RER A line to board for…
So exhausted right now from the long flight with no sleep and only a 1-hour nap after settling into our apartment, but Paris is so far so good. Jeff and I started the morning at the Renaissance LAX Marriott with breakfast and a shuttle ride to pick up Mom from…
Today, Jeff and I ventured to Vik, the southern most city in Iceland, and saw the sun rise and set on our journey. I still cannot get over both the morning and evening twilight – so blue and so much longer than in California. And the blues aren’t the only colors…
Didn’t do too much today. After going to bed between 5 and 6am, it was hard to wake up at 9:45 and run downstairs for breakfast, but we did. Afterward, we had to nap – except that I can’t stop reading The DaVinci Code, so I didn’t sleep. About 1pm we…
Woke up late this morning… or afternoon as the case was. Missed breakfast at the hotel but had a smoothie from across the street then headed to town. We went to the settlement museum and learned about the pre-Christian era and a bit about Yule (Christmas). We then went up…
Wow we did a LOT today. Woke up before the sun (easy to do!), ate breakfast and made the 2.5 hour, icy, snowy drive to Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall). It was freezing cold out there and of course I slipped and fell on some hard ice, but it was worth…
Briefly seen on an episode of The Bachelor years ago, the Blue Lagoon was a must visit destination for this trip. We don’t have many plans while we were here but I am glad we made this one of them, We started the morning about 7am local time with breakfast at…
Just a few shots from the OC and Seattle Airport and IcelandAir flight Saturday/Sunday that we didn’t post before. I enjoyed all of the translations to Icelandic on board and the informational videos about the country.
After having a tricky time getting our rental car after being a given a key that only opened the trunk, our next day… err… night… um… afternoon… began when Jenn and I woke up after nap at about 3:00pm local time. The downtown of Reykjavik is a nice small town,…
Our journey has begun. We are currently in Seattle waiting for our 10 hour flight to Iceland to board. This morning we were so happy to get to the airport we waited outside the condo hoping each car pulling into the complex was the cab. The flight left a little…
We are sitting at the Miami airport now, waiting for some charge stations to open up. This morning was fun filled – woke up at 7am to catch the 7:07 sunrise. After sleeping a bit more we went down for a yummy breakfast buffet complete with a huge omelet to…
Today was nice. Spent a lot of time in the car on the way to Miami Beach today. It was good to kind of take a break but I am glad we got into Miami Beach in time to have some fun. We walked about 3 miles down to the…
Today was a blast! We started with our quick pool refresher course and after lunch went out on the boat to two awesome dives where I played the rebel and took my waterproof to 10 feet camera down to 30 feet. Glad I did, too! We got some fun shots….