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Archive for November, 2007

It’s a boy!

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Jeff arrived today - on his birthday! We didn’t see him until dinner, however. He and Jenny were too busy checking out Swatch stores all day to be bothered with us.

Lucy, Lisa and I started the day at Notre Dame. Lisa …

Greetings from the Louvre!

Sunday, November 11th, 2007


Back in my tourist shoes again. It was rough going from time to time, but I made it. We saw the Cluny museum, went to a huge old bookstore, bought some fancy tea, roamed around the Louvre, went to stare at …

miri? miri who?

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Yep, no touring around for me today and, thus, I’m not in the group photo. My hip was killing me and walking was a so-so proposition, so I stayed in the hotel hoping that a day off would help. I now …

Greetings from Paris

Friday, November 9th, 2007

We couldn’t quite decide which one of these we liked more. They each offer a little something fun - Jenny’s eyebrow, Lucy’s distrusting …

Greetings from the high-brow British Museum from your low-brow friends

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Today we added a new traveler - Jenny - and had a pretty low-key day. We started off with some determined shopping Hamleys and then Lucy wanted to go to Harrods. After all that consumerism, we walked through Hyde …

Greetings from Bath!

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Image posted and by fellow traveler chanuck.

Today, we took a day trip to Bath, England. It’s a short train ride and, since there were 3 of us, they gave us a group travel rate. Bonus! We took a bus around …

Greetings from the London Eye

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Image posted and by fellow traveler chanuck.

The skies were clear and we were up early, so this day started at the London Eye - no lines! Woo! After taking a whirl around it and enjoying the views, we had to …

Greetings from Trafalgar Square - the Crumpler Crew

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Lucy and I started off today by walking to Westminster Abbey, walking around the abbey and then taking the Verger tour. After that, we met up with the newly arrived, quite jet-lagged but well-functioning Lisa. We ended up getting some take-out …

Arches

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Another ceiling fresco

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I’m wondering if that was the pull to ring the bell in the tower…