We have been back a few hours and I am we are fairly wired which means tommorow we will be very tired! I'm nestled in bed surfing the internets while the husbeast plays his beloved video games.

Here I am on the first day in london, wearing a hat hand knit by claudia for me, just for the trip. It was lovely and light and very warm. I wish I had a better photo of it, but I have like 6 roles of film to develop so maybe there are closer ones. That's big ben behind me.

If you want to view all the photos here go on ahead, or read my little summary below.

After the first day in london we left for Paris and spent 3 days in each city. I can easily count atleast half a dozen things we didn't get to do in each city. We stayed very busy and most of the shops I wanted to shop at (yarn stores and smal antique or artist stores) didn't have open hours on XMAS eve and XMAS day in paris, and london had it's busiest shopping day EVER the day I went out to get yarn. I wasn't up for fighting crows so we didn't do much shopping, and stuck to the museums and such.

First night of the trip, in London after sushi.

Our hotel room in Paris (Victoria Palace) the most wonderful hotel EVER (except the bed was way to hard). I adored that hotel, the staff was so helpgul and the location was perfect. I loved speaking what little french I knew.

View from our balconey (we had two small ones!). Lots of motorcycles below, seemed like the best form of transportation.

At the lourve we started with the Egyptian stuff, and moved on to the paintings. I wanted to see the sculpture and greek stuff, maybe another time!

This mummy was wild looking, so tiny and it's fingers.. chills!

Me next to a Botticelli! Jesse had to sneak the photo and so it was blurry. I got to see so much wonderful art by many of my favorite artists, and when we came to the giant napleon coronation portrait I actually had tears in my eyes. I was surounded by such beutiful works of art, I was simply in awe and the Lourve was by far one of my most favorite stops. It was so huge.

Art can never properly be shown in photos, it's so much different when you see it inches from your nose and eyes.

We took the metro all places, and liked it a lot (unless we had luggage which beyond sucked so in London we just gave up and paid the nearly $200 for a black taxi to Gatwick when we left).

Here we are at a wonderful little french resturant that actaully had Creme Brulee, I'm wearing my husbands cloths, it was soo cold but we made it around just fine even walking. It wasn't as cold as I thought it would be, but it was still damn cold.

We went the The Lourve, Stonehenge, Windsor, Bath (freakin mazing), Norte Dam, Tower of London (wouldn't let us in!) National Gallery (monet and picaso!), Eiffle Tower and other places my brain won't remember. Oh and we saw Tim Curry in Spamalot at The Palace Threater! Timy Curry! The husbeast loves Monty Python and it's basically a play on that so he was very pleased.

Most of the outside pictures of buildings I took with my film camera and I'm going to get the developed and digitized right away. Sorry for the spelling errors but I gotta try to go to bed!