A few silly exchanges

*erin, grabbing my face, squishing my cheeks, placing her forehead against mine, with a very serious tone* Mom?  You're getting... very chubby.

*me* Tonight is Family Home Evening!
*aiden* Tonight?
*me* Yup! It's Monday!  Every Monday is Family Home Evening!
*aiden* And every Sunday my dad has tuna fish sandwiches!

*me* Erin, you are so beautiful!
*erin* Mom... my butt itches.  So I'm going to scratch my butt.

Europe in 4 days

On November 22nd I got to go to Europe with L to see my sister, C, and my dad.  It was so fast, I feel like it was there and gone in the blink of an eye.  I miss it and want to go back!  Here are some photos from my trip...

Luggage

Me and L waiting for the chauffer

Me and L in the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class lounge (ooh la la)

My hard drink... a shirley temple

My little pod (the seat turns into a bed!)

L and I waiting for takeoff

Relaxing in our seat

There were only 5 people total in Upper Class, so we pretty much had 3 stewards at our beckon call for whatever we wanted!

Almost there...

Sleepy baby on the plane

The lights of London before sunrise

Hey! You're sitting on the wrong side of the car!

Driving past the palace

Mister Ben and the Elizabeth Tower

Grandpa and grandson

The chandelier, it was so pretty!

C on the bridge over the Themes

Me taking pictures

Sleepy little guy

Me on the bridge over the Themes

Me and L

Me

The London Eye

Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower and Parliament

Me and Ben

My sister and I

The London Eye

The London Underground

Westminster Abbey

Me and the iconic red telephone booth

Monty Python!

C and L

Me downing a bottle of Glenlivet...... water...

The Harry Potter tour bus

The studio tour

The actual chess pieces

The cupboard under the stairs (the set designer actually took stuff from their own basement, lol)

Hogwarts castle wall

The door to Hogwarts

The great hall as well as some costumes

The gate to Hogwarts

Me drinking a Butterbeer (it was kinda gross.  The "foam" was very very thick butterscotch concentrate, and the soda was cream soda)

The Knight Bus

The bridge

The model they used for ariel shots

It was so beautiful!

Me and L

Olivander's Wand shop.  Yes, those are all wand boxes.  There were thousands!!  

This was our view out the bus window.  No, that's not condensation, they had a sticker over ALL of the windows so they weren't see through!

L and I in the super deep tub

L and I on the London eye

C on the eye

C playing "shark attack" with L

Trafalgar square.  If you look close, you can see tanks from the set of "all you need is kill" which they were filming while we were there.

L and I on the eye

View from the eye

view from the eye

I think this was the top of the eye

Me, terrified on the eye

Hot chocolate, YUM!

St. Pancras station

Tickets to Paris!

On the train to Paris

The eiffel tower

Dinner in Paris

Eclairs in France!

This is CHEESE!  That's a large dinner plate!  It was so good!

Crepes in Paris

C's latte

The underside of l'arc de triomphe

Apparently Sega still exists

On my way home

Lights of Boston

Sleepy boy

Look what I found at heathrow!

Sleepy boy (and yes, I know the car seat is all wrong, but seriously, don't get me started on the stupid car seat fiasco)

L'arc de Triomphe

C, walking down the Champs-Elysee

The eiffel tower set off these sparkling white lights at 9pm, it made it look like the whole tower was shimmering, it was beautiful!

The eiffel tower

The Louvre before sunrise

The eternal flame (I think that's what it's called?)

The Champs Elysees

 It was so beautiful there, I can't wait to go back.  Hopefully I'll be able to go soon!