Monday, September 15, 2008

Top Ten

Top Ten from our recent travels...
(In no particular order)

10.Notre Dame
We had a great time when our friend, Phil, went up the 350+ steps to the top towers of Notre Dame. It is one of the most spectacular structures I have ever been in.





9. Hanging out on the river in Paris with Abby and Brian. We loved how relaxed the city was on these warm, quiet nights. The best part was when someone showed up with an upright piano and a small drum kit and a crowd over over 100 gathered to sing along with this impromptu outdoor piano bar.


8. Playing with fire in Prague. There's only one place in the world where you can have a proper flaming glass of absinth, so we went for it!


7. Parks!


This is in the Kew Gardens in London. These lilypads are literally 2 feet wide!


We had a little too much fun on the merry-go-round at this park in Glasgow.


6. Ashley.
She's our good friend from MN who showed us around Liverpool and Manchester. It was the first stop on the journey, what a great way to start!


5. Climbing down a mountain in the Swiss Alps







4. Time with friends
Manu and the little daughter of our hosts in Swizterland

Soren and Andy with the hats they traded


3. The monuments in Berlin

This one goes deeper into the ground as you walk into it, so the blocks get taller and taller.

This includes the Jewish Museum in Berlin. We thought this museum was great because they had a couple of rooms that were like installments. This one was amazing. You got to walk all around this room that had these iron faces on them. The room wasn' very big, but the ceiling went up at least 3 stories, so the sound of these clanking iron pieces was so loud and melodic.



2. The East Side Gallery in Berlin. The Berlin Wall was an amazing thing to see, espicially this portion of it where artists have made it into their canvas.





1. Home Sweet Home, our lovely Thames River in London on our last night. There are no words and no pictures to express how much I miss that life, those people, and that place. What a gift the past two years have been. I have faith that what comes next can only be better!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great pics! It was an awesome trip and I had a great time with you guys. Welcome back to MN.

deev said...

i love reading your style mandy!!! i´m glad to have been a part of that 2 years...

and cheers to a better 2 for you and andy!!!

xxxx