Monday, November 30, 2009

Been there, seen that!

We can check London and Paris off our "wish list" of travel spots! After months and months of planning this trip, it ended so quickly, as all trips do!. I guess that happens when you have fun! Packing in all of the sites of those 2 major cities, in one week, was not easy but we saw everything we wanted to see and experience. After an all night flight to London, we had a great few days seeing all of the famous landmarks, listening to the British accent and eating the well-known, not so good food. After the train ride from London to Paris, we went to museum after museum, made numerous trips to the Eiffel Tower, ate our weight in crepes and baguettes and walked until our feet fell off! It was definitely an adjustment not being able to read signs or speak French but thanks to Watson's ability to say "I don't speak French, do you speak English?", we made it through the city with our TN accent :) Needless to say, we are jet lagged and are wanting to go to bed at 7:00 pm. Hopefully, we will get back to a normal schedule shortly!

Of course, we took way so many pictures that posting them would be impossible. Here are a few to enjoy...


Houses of Parliament

Big Ben

London Eye

Tower of London

St. Paul's Cathedral

Trafalgar Square

Rain, Rain, Rain

Buckingham Palace

Westminster Abbey

Kensington Palace


Army Museum & Napoleon's Tomb

Orsay Museum

Arc de Triomphe

Eiffel Tower


Rue Cler Neighborhood where we stayed

Notre Dame

Louvre Museum

Mona Lisa (really is that small & look at all of the people!)

Orangerie Museum - Monet's "Water Lillies"

Seine River

Versailles Palace

Gardens of Versailles

Yummy nutella & banana crepe



Wednesday, November 4, 2009

H1N1

So... I guess I am officially subject of peer pressure, or maybe media pressure. 20/20, Dateline, 60 Minutes have all been reporting terrible stories of perfectly healthy people being hospitalized or even dying of the Swine Flu. I have never gotten a flu shot in my life and was determined not to get the H1N1 vaccine either. My reasoning is silly - I HATE shots! That's all. Not because I thought I would get sick or because of the vaccine shortage or long lines. I just didn't want to get a shot that was not "required". In the end, I failed at being stubborn! I made Watson and I get the FluMist last night for H1N1 (not the shot - ha!). We waited our 20 minutes afterwards and are still feeling good today!

Moral of the story - get the H1N1 vaccine (or mist) if you are in one of the high risk groups!