Where have YOU been?

Does anyone get tired of checking blogs when there are never new posts? Well, I have the most amazing excuse ever! I was in Europe with my husband for three weeks. Woo-Hoo!Brett had a business trip to Wales and I got to tag along. We spent two weeks in Wales while he lectured, ran over to England on the weekend and then took another week to see what we could see in Holland and France. So here is a flying look at a little bit of what we saw and did. Everything is out of order, oh well).
Palace of Versailles anyone? This place was HUGE beyond imagining! We were so tired of walking at the end of the day. The king would have needed his own zip code... the grounds went on and on and....

I'd hate to wash the windows!

Ironically the most expensive restaurant we ate in the whole trip was a converted barn at Versailles. Seriously... it still looked like a barn.

King Louis the XVI bed. Sheesh

Hall of mirrors. Wow, so much history happened here!

The Louvre was... wow! I had a hard time focusing on the art because the whole building was a work of art.

This guy just couldn't take the Louvre seriously.

Oh gosh! I was inside the Louvre!!!!!

A canal trip in Amsterdam with friends.

We took a ferry from England to Holland. It was like a small cruise ship. The closest I've come to a cruise.

While Brett was working I went to as many museums as I wanted. I LOVE history and Brett would rather take a nap than walk through a museum. I went to one that was an outdoor museum made up of Welsh buildings from all different eras.... from a castle to Celtic huts.

I loved the Welsh gardens! I could have just wandered in the gardens for hours.

I was in heaven! It was like stepping back in time. I visited to anyone who would talk to me. My tours were way better than anyone else because I was visiting with all the curators.

Cardiff castle was unbelievable! So much history crammed into one area! The last Marquis to live in it made the walls a public bomb shelter during WWII. (I got to walk through them right after Veterans day. That was emotional!)

Oh man, that's me on top of a castle!

One Sunday we took a drive to the tiny market town where my man's family came from. This church was built in the mid1200's.

I have no idea why this is sideways... but who cares! I took that picture... which means that I was standing right in front of Big Ben. "squeal" (My son Ben thought that was the coolest name for a clock).
We walked by these two churches every day to Brett's office. They were so beautiful.
Sorry about the picture... I thought this was so funny. He's on his cell phone. Hee hee. That was only 1/4 of the pictures, but you get the idea. We had a great time but were so glad to get back to our kiddos. (That was hard to be gone so long). It was an adventure of a life time!