Belated Blog

Okay so our blog has not quite been working well the past few weeks, but things are getting much better, and I think the problem has been fixed. So I know we got back from our vacation a month ago, but here are a few of the remaining pictures.

Sanctuary to Sin City

Well the first day we went to Notre Dame. (Note to self, it was amazing to go to Europe over the Holidays and see the lights, but FYI everything closes down on Holidays, EVERYTHING!!) So after walking almost 2 miles with our suitcases because we were lost and didn't understand French on where to go, oh and we had a run in with a taxi driver the night before so that was out of the question, we finally made it to the hotel. Since Notre Dame was the only thing open this day we went there and waited in line for an hour to get in (normally you walk right in). It was amazing though and we loved it. Later we went and had "Duck with Cherries" I wasn't brave enough to eat Frog Legs. That night I also wanted to get my picture in front of the Moulin Rouge, since it is my favorite Movie. Ummm, I don't think I'm in Utah anymore. Let's just say the city was crazy and we left quite quickly. However, I did see the Moulin Rouge!

Paris

So I'm sorry I haven't been able to post the pictures of our Paris part of our trip. The blogger was down last week and i was having many technical difficulties. So this was the first night of our trip. It was Happy New Year! It was amazing to celebrate the new year, and the first night in Paris. We had a video but it is having some technical difficulties. The crazy thing was we left the Eiffel tower just after 12 (by the way they don't count down out there, and we even practiced our French), and we didn't get into 4:00 in the morning. LEt's just say the STUPID PARIS TRAINS! Augh, well we made it in and the next night we had a hotel much closer to the city. Well this was our first night, Hurray!

Changing of the Guard

what is England without the Queen, and the fabulous Buckingham Palace and the changing of the Guard. Buckingham palace is a lot smaller in front than I thought it would be, but the changing of the Guard was a much bigger deal than I thought it would be, complete with a 20 minute orchestration number.

Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath

This was by far our most favorite day of the whole trip. We took a Coach to Windsor Castle where the Queen lives and sw her Castle. I cannot believe how amazing everything was decorated, not to mention to money in the castle. We saw were famous kings such as Henry the VIII and probably a few of his many wives were burried. Stonehenge was exactly how I pictured it, including the Windy cold and rainy day. The drive was also incredible with Thatched roofs and sheeps in the field. Bath was also amazing, the whole city was fantastic. It is basically the ruins of a 2000 year old Roman Spa, but the whole city just has so much Character. We loved this!

Classic London

Here are a few Classic London Pics such as a phone booth (Hey Robby, does this ever make you miss watching Avengers?) As well as the Double Decker Bus.

Tower of London

While in London we went to the Tower of London. This was a castle Fortress from about 1066. it was amazing the detail and History. Plus we saw the Queen's crown Jewels and even made a guard laugh (only because Chris asked if he could kiss him!)

First night

This was our first sight on London, The London Eye, Big Ben, the house of Parliment and Westminster Abbey, it was incredible!

Europe!

So here is our Europe Vacation pictures. We left on Christmas day and flew first into Charlotte where we had an excellent Christmas dinner at the USO. We then flew on a nice airplane (free food and movies for 9 hours- who could ask for anything more) to London. We had a little bit of a rough start because we didn't realize it was boxing day and all the trains were closed. So the only cheapest option was a Coach bus, so $110 and 2 hours later we finally made it to our hotel. Our hotel was really nice, it was the Crowne Plaza which we hotwired for a killer deal, the only draw back is that it took a while to get into the city. The first thing we saw was the Big Ben which was an incredible first sight of London. While in London we also saw Westminster Abbey, Buckinham Palace and the changing of the Guards, The tower of London, London Bridge, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and Bath. WE also went around to all of the different villages, ate rue English Food (Sausage and Mash) and totally loved it. Our favorite day was the day when we visted Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath, it was amazing!
After Being in London for 6 days we left on the 31st by Bus to go to Paris. We celebrated New Years Eve at the Eiffel Tower, Incredible and Happy Birthday to Chris!! We had a hard time getting back to our hotel the first night because of the stupid trains, but at 4:00 am we were in our hotel and only $60 more broke because of the stupid taxi driver. In London we went to see Notre Dame, the outside only of the Moulin Rouge (and never again, may I just Say that Paris is the nastiest dirtiest city in the world!!) We went to the Louve and saw the Mona Lisa, we saw Versaille where Marie Antoinette lived, the arc de triumph, Sacre Couer, and many other increbile monuments. We tried to find frog legs but we were unsucessful. Well we loved our amazing trip to Europe! Emjoy the Pics, lots of love!

Happy Holidays!

Hello to all of our friends and family!! I hope that you all had a great Holiday. It has been a while since we have posted, but we are still here out in Med School. Well we had a great Christmas and we loved all of the gifts from our friends and family. We went on a Wonderful vacation to Europe, pictures to follow. We were especially blessed by our friend the Boggus's who saved the day Christmas morning when we were heading to the airport and our engine fried, they had no hesitations coming to help us out Christmas morning and taking us to the airport. When we got back we are also indebted to the Davis's who let us borrow their car for 2 days so we could get home! Once we arrived home, we expected to see our house near completion (because before we left we packed up our entire house and moved it into one small room so that the rest of our house could be totally redone). Well to our surprise and disappointment, hardly any work was done. So now we are living in a room with everything else in boxes (except the kitchen) and shooting for our house to be finished by Feb. 4th. We also had a leak in our 1/2 done new roof, which should also be finished sometimes in February. So hopefully this year is not as chaotic as the beginning of it was. But we are very grateful that Chris won the lottery for rotations and we are able to stay in Lewisburg instead of traveling to some other scary part of the state for rotations. My job is going well, and I am doing a lot of therapy with kids which I love. Well we miss you all and can't wait to see you all!! Love Chris and Alicia