The patisserie down the street from our hotel in Paris

The food in Paris wasn’t all that good!

The street our hotel was on

The group in the subway

In the business district

Arc de Triomphe

Honoring the soldiers that fought for France during the Napoleonic wars

Sitting on the steps of Le Grande Palais

In front of the tower

The group on our first day in Paris!

View from the top of our hotel

The Eiffel Tower from our hotel

Notre Dame

The windows were amazing!

Inside the Cathedral

They still hold mass there

Wooden model of Notre Dame

Entering the Musee du Louvre

I was most excited about going here

This man ripped us off… Charged us five Euro for these bracelets! We learned our

lesson that day!

Krystle and Reggie in the Louvre

The Goddess Nike inside the Louvre

Mona Lisa

A man doing a replica of the painting. They had people all over the museum doing

this… it was really cool

Resting in the statue garden

Reggie in front of Hercules

Krystle and I getting ready to check out the night life

Versailles

What a view! This was in the back court yard

View of the back of the house

King Louis the XIV lived here

The royal chapel in Versailles

The Hall of Mirrors… Where the Treaty of Versailles was signed ending WWI

I always wanted to have this done… even though I don’t think it looked like me when

he was done!

We finally made it to the Eiffel Tower… It was the last thing we did in Paris

I was actually there!

View from the first level of the tower

View of Paris from the very top of the tower. It was cold up there!

It was beautiful at night!

Getting ready to leave Paris

Piccadilly Circus in London

Had to take a picture in one of these!

There were lots of little random signs like these around London… It was pretty cool

St. Martins Cathedral

This statue was dedicated to the guy who defeated Napoleon

I think this is Leicester Square

Buckingham Palace… The flag up means the Queen was home

The lawn in front of the palace

No, I didn’t get to see the changing of the guards!

Our boat tour on the Thames River

The Imperial War Museum… There was an amazing Holocaust exhibit in there

A piece of the Berlin Wall

Inside the war museum

The bakery across the street from our hotel… We were there like every

night!

They call this the “gherkin” because of its shape. It’s home of Swiss

Reinsurance Company

Lloyds of London Insurance Market

Inside of Lloyds

View from elevator in Lloyds

Monument to the great fire of London

My crew while we were there

A great musical… London theater is really good.

Model of the 2012 Olympic Stadium

I think this clock runs on mean time (zero longitude)

This is the start of the 2012 Olympic Stadium

Can’t wait to see how it’s going to look when it’s done!

In our first pub on our historic pub crawl

The group walking to the next pub

Outside of another pub… I think they had a lot of beers that night!

Thank God they had escalators! They sure didn’t in Paris and it sucked!

Another historic pub

The eye of London… No, I didn’t go on it

Last day in London… The sun was finally shinning!

Me and the girls… Krystle and Tonya

Reggie and I in front of “big ben”. The clock in front of Parliament at

Westminster

The group minus 5… They had a little trouble getting up the morning after the

pub crawl!

One of the only original buildings of Parliament… I think the rest of it got

burned down and rebuilt

Our Hotel