Conclusion

Now that I think I've loaded all the pictures I want of the trip I have to say, Europe was amazing. The history was overwhelming and so awesome. We watched the Gladiator shortly after returning from Rome and it was so cool to see it all and recognize things and places. Touring these places was so much more of an education than we had anticipated. The people were great, the food was amazing, the places were all very picturesque and we will definitely go again...and again. However I have never been so proud to be an American. I never realized how much the rest of the world relies on America, for everything. Not only political influence, which was quite a bit, we were very surprised. Europeans follow American politics closer that most Americans. Everywhere we went people were commenting about the election. The candidates were in the news almost as much as they were here. Crazy. We felt very ill equipped to discuss any European politics. But its not just politics. It's everything, movies, books, clothes and especially music. We heard more American tunes than anything else. I'm convinced that's how they all learn english, they listen to American pop at the grocery store. We loved all the places we went, it was an experience of a lifetime to be sure. But when we came through customs in New York and heard all the loud Americans being all bossy and saying welcome home, I wanted to sing the national anthem. I was so psyched to be able to read all the signs and talk to all the people. I went to the grocery store yesterday and I could read the ingredients of everything. Not to be taken for granted, knowing what's in your frosted mini wheats. Anyway point is Europe is a really fantastic adventure, great place to visit. The U.S. a really great place to be born and live.

Gent

Fighting over the spot in the fireplace

Sarh and the girls and Kenny and the boys

A very scary death trap of a castle in Gent

Me and the kids

Rome

Some really cool baths, Baths of Caracalla

This is how I really feel

View of Rome at night

rome

On Palatine Hill

View from Palatine Hill

Palatine Hill

Rome

The Roman Freakin Forum

More Roman Forum, so awesome

The Colosseum in all her glory

Dylan inside the awesome Colosseum

More Rome

Pieta by Michaelangelo. This is behind glass because some crazy took a hammer to her once and broke a piece off. (Inside St. Peters Basilica)

St. Peters Basilica

St Peters Basilica. It is pouring rain here, right after we toured the Vatican.

The Pantheon

Rome

The first gelato... we had it 3 times that day

Seriously.

Trevi Fountain at night

The Vatican

Start of Rome

Playing red light green light on the Spanish Steps

Probably wanted more gelato

The Spanish Steps we staye about a block from here

Trevi Fountain

Last of London

Inside The British Museum free to all it's the oldest museum in the world

There is an actual mumified person lying there

The Rosetta Stone

High speed train from London to Brussels

more London

In front of Buckingham Palace

West Minster Abbey

The actual suit Robert Downey Jr wore in Iron Man

So I'm trying to figure out this Blog business. Posting photos is kind of hard, if you have a million to post. Can you only post four at a time? If so I will have a ton of posts. Help me out here.

more london

Hamley's 7 stories of toys for the last 247 years. Awesome!

In front of the Tower of London

The flower on my hat is a poppy to signify a day of remembrance. Pretty much every person had them, there was a parade, they shot cannons, and West Minster Abbey was packed with people.

Familiarizing himself with the equipment (see sign above his head)