tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49492250908695310972024-03-12T18:08:30.404-07:00Kiddles 'N BitsAmber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-48314197971569440062014-05-23T12:17:00.000-07:002014-05-23T12:17:48.559-07:00New WebsiteSo, I've kind of disappeared from this blog. I've been busy with my kids and volunteering and doing different things. <br />
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But, I've also started to work a bit more on the little business that my sister, Fern and I started a while ago. Our company is <span style="font-size: large;">Artistic Foto Creations. </span>We're selling picture tiles and canvases that we make ourselves. Business is slow. It's hard to get our names out there. But, we're slowly working on it and finding ways to branch out.<br />
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Our newest endeavour, is to create a website/blog.<br />
If you haven't checked it out yet, have a look here..... <a href="http://artisticfotocreations.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"> artisticfotocreations.blogspot.com</a><br />
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Along with working on the website, we've also been working on some new product. We're coming up with some new tiles/canvases that feature the Edmonton Temple. Here's a sneak peak at a couple of them...<br />
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There are surprisingly few pictures out there of the Edmonton Temple. We are even in the process of getting these canvases in the Edmonton Generations Bookstore.<br />
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Anyways, if you like what we do, take a look at our website or find us online and let us know if you'd like to order anything from us!Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-74350731521007380972014-04-29T23:01:00.002-07:002014-04-30T13:26:39.700-07:00Emily's puzzleEmily loves these new math puzzles. She learned them at school.<br />
She created this one. Can you solve the weight of each bug?<br />
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We are thinking of making it into a geocache puzzle too.<br />
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I think it will be a fun geocache. We'll probably have a bug themed container to go along with it.Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-45713925443090757692013-07-19T15:04:00.006-07:002013-07-19T15:04:48.773-07:00Roses and babys breath cakeThis is one of my favorite cakes. I've made something similar to it in the past, but it's always fun to do a cake with roses and babys breath. (FYI, I have a tutorial on here on how to make babys breath like this, if you wanted to learn how).<br />
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Congratulations to Alaina and Jason on their recent wedding!<br />
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-74873273893892334852013-07-19T14:58:00.002-07:002013-07-19T14:58:41.472-07:00Oh the Places You'll Go CakeA friend asked me to make a cake for her son's birthday. She wanted the theme to be from Dr. Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go" book. What a fun book and idea for a cake.<br />
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So, of course I looked online to get some inspiration. I found a few cakes that I liked and decided to take different aspects from a couple of them and combine them into one cake.<br />
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When making cakes, sometimes it's nice to try some new techniques too. This was the first time I did a topsy turvy cake (top layer only though) and using some of the Duff cake wires.<br />
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I think the cake turned out great. Happy Birthday Shane!!<br />
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-65526997746080207932013-07-19T14:50:00.003-07:002013-07-19T14:50:33.177-07:00Tree Stump CakeMy sister-in-law asked me to make a birthday cake for my niece's 11th birthday. She asked that it would have animals on it. Other than that, I could do whatever I'd like.<br />
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I knew exactly what I wanted to make. A cake that I've always wanted to make. A long time ago, I bought a Debbie Brown book that had a tree stump cake in it and I fell in love with it. It's so adorable. So, I decided to make it for Lucy for her birthday.<br />
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The cake was vanilla with buttercream icing and fondant.<br />
The entire cake is edible except the few skewers that are used for structural support.<br />
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Here's some pictures.<br />
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-5204970096458131072013-07-19T14:38:00.001-07:002013-07-19T14:38:13.735-07:00Minecraft cakeI was asked by a friend to do a birthday cake. The theme that she wanted was Minecraft.<br />
My kids love that game, but I on the other hand, have never really played it. So, I took a while to get on and explore the game and find out what it was all about.<br />
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I had a lot of fun brainstorming ideas for this cake.<br />
I was quite happy with the way it turned out.<br />
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Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-58313382636732348822013-07-19T14:29:00.002-07:002013-07-19T15:08:12.462-07:00100th Birthday CakeI am so slow on any of my postings.<br />
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So, a few months ago, my Grandma celebrated her 100th birthday. 100 years, it's quite the accomplishment. Especially since Grandma still continues to live independently in her own home by herself and keeps very active.<br />
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So, as her birthday was coming closer, my sister Fern and I decided that we'd like to make a cake for her birthday party. We wanted something fairly big with a unique design that tells the story of her life. We brain-stormed and came up with a few ideas. In the end, we decided to do a 4-tiered cake with edible images and hand-painted accents.<br />
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Fern and I split the work between the two of us. I was very thankful that I have a sister that makes cakes like I do and I didn't have to do a project like this on my own. It would have taken forever! The cake consisted of three different flavours. One tier was chocolate, one tier was berry and two tiers were vanilla.<br />
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Anyways, I am so happy with the way it turned out! Hope you enjoy the pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite pictures. Matthew giving his Great Grandma a kiss on the cheek.</td></tr>
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What was fun too, was the fact that the Sun newspaper and Global news were both at Grandma's party. How excited I was to see a big picture of Grandma and my cake in the newspaper the next day. I had a friend who noticed the cake and thought of me, not realizing it was mine and texted me to go check it out. Too funny.<br />
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Happy Birthday Grandma! Looking forward to your 101th birthday!!Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-67990173065550148332013-07-03T10:45:00.000-07:002013-07-03T10:45:01.943-07:00Buttercream Ruffle cake for my sister<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Heather's birthday cake turned out so pretty!! Decorated in all buttercream and the flowers are made from fondant.</div>
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-1174013097749752582013-07-03T10:34:00.004-07:002013-07-03T10:34:47.874-07:00Boy Baby Blessing Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've seen this type of cake done before on the internet, except it was decorated with royal icing. When a friend announced her wedding and another friend offered to host an open house, I knew this would be the perfect time to try my hand at making a cake in this fashion. Except, instead of royal icing, I wanted to do it in Buttercream. I think it turned out very pretty!! And with using all buttercream (except the fondant flowers), it tasted so good too!<br />
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Last day before heading home.<br />
We spent the day touring around <span style="font-size: large;">Munich</span>.<br />
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First place we headed to was <span style="font-size: large;">Schloss Nymphenburg</span>. Another summer palace. This one was ridiculously big (like pretty much all of them). There were lots of swans swimming in the pools. I absolutely loved it when they had their wings up and looking pretty. Schloss Nymphenburg has some large gardens, but we decided to skip walking through them because there was so much snow and all the statues were all covered up by big wooden boxes (so disappointing). The palace was beautiful with lots of details. Okay, here's some pictures. So glad they allowed pictures inside, unlike the rest of the castles we walked through...<br />
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We then headed over to <span style="font-size: large;">Karlzplatz <span style="font-size: small;">and did some shopping. Lots of nice shops. <span style="font-size: small;">It was in this area that I bought my beautiful mechanical coo coo clock.</span></span></span><br />
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Lastly, we went for dinner at the <span style="font-size: large;">Hofbrauhaus</span>. Where we had a traditional German dinner and some traditional dancers, music and other entertainment. It was a good dinner and we enjoyed our visit with an older couple sitting at our table who lives in Berlin.<br />
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-2020765667884701452013-03-15T16:14:00.002-07:002013-03-15T18:48:34.973-07:00February 18<div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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We spent the day near Fussen/Schwangau, Germany, which is a 2 hr train ride from where we were staying in Munich.</div>
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Before heading out, we stopped and bought some stuff from our favorite bakery. Yum! They had the best pretzels that had some kind of filling in them. And pastries that were like donuts filled with cream. So good!</div>
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It was a fantastic day. When we arrived, we went and got tickets to tour Hohenschwangau, which was a beautiful castle that the royal family lived in in the summer. It was lovely. Sorry, no pictures were allowed during our tour (in either castle), which is too bad. I will say this about Hohenschwangau though, inside were a lot of beautiful paintings. They were large and painted directly onto the walls, which then had frames attached around them. And above each painting, there were words painted on the wall, describing the picture. One room though, had a lot of writing and apparently King Ludwig II wanted to try his hand at poetry and that's what was painted on the wall. I wish I could read German.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful stained glass inside Hohenschwangau. This was in the room we were waiting in before starting our tour.</td></tr>
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Behind Hohenschwangau, there was a road that went winding down the hillside. We decided to go for a short walk down it and then veered off onto a small snowy pathway so that we could find a geocache. Lovely area for geocaching! The snow was so deep, but we were lucky enough that someone else had gone geocaching in the last couple of days so it wasn't too hard to make the find at any of the caches we found that day.</div>
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After touring through Hohenschwangau, we then went for a long walk up the road to Neuschwanstein. You can pay to take a horse drawn wagon up, but we figured it might be faster to just walk, even though it was a half hour brisk walk. At the top of the road, we stopped and found another geocache. This one had a fantastic view of Neuschwanstein. The snow was super deep and I fell over and had a hard time getting up. It was funny. </div>
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Neuschwanstein is absolutely beautiful. Both inside and out. It's understandable why it was used as the inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle. Unfortunately Neuschwanstein was never completed as King Ludwig II was drowned (either accidental or murder, they don't know which). So, only 1/3 is actually completed. Too bad cause it's the most amazing castle. So much detail. Lots of gold detailing and beautiful paintings. The most surprising room though was what truly is a "man cave". Just off the main bedroom is a room that was decorated and made to look like the Lewis & Clark caves, complete with stalactites and stalagmites. It was very cool. And there was a balcony type room off the "man cave" that had the most amazing view. So beautiful! </div>
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After touring the castle, we were quite disappointed to find that the path to Marienbrücke (Mary's bridge) was closed. So after some debate, we finally decided to hop the fence (or two....or three fences... that may or may not have said "Danger. No Trespassing!") and go anyways. We had seen someone on the bridge from a distance, so we knew some others had been up there that day. After all, we reasoned, we might not ever get a chance to come back and the view from Marienbrücke was supposed to be the best view of Neuschwanstein. And it was! </div>
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It was a great day. Great weather. All the snow made everything beautiful and it wasn't too cold out. We took the 2 hr train ride back to Munich where we got some dinner and headed back to our hotel.</div>
Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-54225402654062301452013-03-08T09:28:00.001-08:002013-03-08T09:28:29.310-08:00February 17<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Day 48</span></span><br />
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Our day started off by attending one of the nearby wards for <span style="font-size: large;">church</span>. Sacrament meeting was up on the second floor. It's interesting to go to another ward in a completely different country with a different language than what you speak. I didn't understand a single word that was spoken, but it's nice that at least I recognize all the songs and the service has the exact same layout as it does back home. Although neither Cam or I speak German, Cam still attempted to sing every song.<br />
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The destination for the day..... <span style="font-size: large;">Dachau</span>.<br />
We headed to the train station and took a short train ride to Dachau, where we boarded a bus that took us to the <span style="font-size: large;">Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial.</span> A couple weeks before we left on our trip, Cam and I had one night watched a movie called "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". I cried and cried when the movie ended and I remember turning to Cam and saying "I don't know if I can go to Dachau and walk around." But Cam was insistent that we go and now that we've been there, I'm so glad that we did. What happened in these places is horrible. But, it's a part of our history and it's important to know it. It was a very humbling experience to walk around the camp, see how big it was, see some of the original buildings and to hear of some of the experiences of the individuals that were forced to come here. May none of us ever forget.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every prisoner in Dachau walked through these gates. "Arbeit Macht Frei" meant Freedom Through Work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance into the Dachau camp. This camp was built to hold up to 6,000 prisoners. When the war ended, there was almost 32,000.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking between the "bunkers" where "special" prisoners where held... usually those that were held in solitary confinement as punishment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A room inside the bunkers. Prisoners were held in solitary confinement in these rooms, sometimes in the dark, for days, weeks or even longer. Some of these small rooms were divided up even smaller, making rooms that were barely big enough for a person, so small that a man could not even sit down. Another form of punishment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A diagram of one of the bunker buildings. That's a lot of individual rooms!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many different memorials and churches have been erected here. This one is a memorial to the Jewish that were killed in the camp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I believe this was a memorial church for Germans that were killed in the camp. The Dachau Concentration Camp held a lot of political prisoners.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A statue in remembrance of the unknown prisoner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So disturbing. This was inside the "death chamber" where they kept dead bodies. The top right picture shows that when the war ended, they made a lot of the members of the Dachau community to come and see the devastation and to learn what truly happened here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The room where they kept bodies before they could cremate them.</td></tr>
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We ran out of time to look through the camp. Another hour or so would have been nice. The only other thing to mention is that inside one of the large bunker houses, they had it full of displays and descriptions. Telling everything from how Hitler rose to power, how concentration camp came to be, what every day life was like in the camp and also what happened to those that freed at the end of the war. They also had a documentary movie that we watched.<br />
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It was time to head back to Munich. After a long day, we stopped and had<span style="font-size: large;"> dinner <span style="font-size: small;">at one of the local "beer houses". <span style="font-size: small;">The food in Germany is very hearty a<span style="font-size: small;">nd thankfully is a lot cheaper<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">Dinner consisted o<span style="font-size: small;">f a <span style="font-size: small;">couple different meats, <span style="font-size: small;">potato dumplings, cabbage salad and <span style="font-size: small;">a potato salad.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> It was good. We then headed back to the hotel.<br />
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Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-80514513699522558482013-03-07T21:35:00.001-08:002013-03-07T21:43:10.366-08:00February 16<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Day 47</span></span><br />
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We arrived in Munich, Germany at 6:30am and when we arrived at the hotel, they told us we were too early to be able to check in (really?), so after a brief break, we left our luggage at the front desk and we went back to the train station to catch another train to spend the day in Salzburg, Austria.<br />
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When we arrived in Salzburg, it was snowing. Big, fat snowflakes that slowly float down and make everything wet, but very beautiful. I love snow like this. And best of all, it's not cold either. I'd take snow any day over rain, so this kind of weather is great!<br />
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Our first stop once we arrived, we went to <span style="font-size: large;">Mirabell Garden</span>.<br />
Mirabell Gardens was in the movie "The Sound of Music". We had a lovely walk through there. We were surprised to find that most of the park was fenced off due to the winter weather, but we hopped the small fence and went for a walk anyways. The fact that there was a geocache there may or may not have been a big factor for us hopping the fence. Ha!<br />
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We then went for a walk, crossed a popular <span style="font-size: large;">walking bridge</span> and went to <span style="font-size: large;">Old Town</span>. We've been very surprised that a lot of bridges in Europe have locks on them. People come and leave locks that have their names on it and some have marriage dates on them too. The bridge we crossed was no exception, it had oodles of locks on it (in fact, one of the locks is a geocache...though we never did find it... so many to look through). Moving along, while in Old Town, we spent time looking through all the little shops and we went to <span style="font-size: large;">Mozart's birth home</span>. It was interesting to go through.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most found geocache in Salzburg. A weather tower. Very cool.</td></tr>
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And then we explored <span style="font-size: large;">Stiftskirche St Peter</span>. My favorite was the walk through the<span style="font-size: large;"> cemetery</span>...
you know the one, the one at the end of The Sound of Music and they're
hiding from the Nazis. The interesting thing about the cemetery was the
fact that even the new tomb stones looked hundreds of years old. You
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the date on them would you know. They also have some very cool <span style="font-size: large;">Catacombs</span> there that we walked through.<br />
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We then paid for a lift that took us up to<span style="font-size: large;"> Hohensalzburg</span>. Now even though Hohensalzburg is technically a castle, it's one that I would say is more like a fortress. It was not fancy like any other castles. It's quite plain inside. Most walls that we saw were just plain white plaster. But the location of Hohensalzburg was such that it would be next to impossible for someone to attack it. Literally on the top of a hill and a steep hill at that. We went on a guided audio tour... which was so boring! I think we both couldn't wait for it to finish. We enjoyed seeing it, but we didn't like having to spend so long inside each location. The funniest was when it took us to the "torture chamber" but then they said that no torture was ever done there and that they just had items from elsewhere that they keep here. Okay.<br />
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It was early evening and Hohensalzburg was just closing. So we went for a walk down along<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">Mönchsberg</span>, one of the mountains in Salzburg. At the end of our walk, we came to a lovely restaurant that had an am<span style="font-size: small;">azing view of the Hohensalzburg and <span style="font-size: small;">the city of S<span style="font-size: small;">alzburg below. <span style="font-size: large;">Dinner</span> was fancy... though one of our main courses, I'm not sure wha<span style="font-size: small;">t it was<span style="font-size: small;"> but I think it was so<span style="font-size: small;">me thin<span style="font-size: small;">ly sliced raw mea<span style="font-size: small;">t? It looked pretty but wasn't the tastiest. Anyways, we enjoyed our dinner and then it was time for us to head back to <span style="font-size: small;">Munich.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Day 46</span><br />
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Our day exploring Venice.<br />
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Venice is like no where else. There's no way to explain it. We had a great day exploring.<br />
So, I've got so many pictures for here, I'm having a hard time figuring out how I'm going to share them with you...<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Rialto Bridge. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">It's one of the most famous locations in Venice. Unfortunately, there's a lot of graffiti in this city and the bridge has suffered as well. One side is worse than the other... so the pictures below are of the "good" side.</span><br />
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Basilica San Marco and square<br />
We walked through this park the night before as well as this day. We noticed that there are a lot of pigeons in the square. A lot. (actually, there's a lot of pigeons just about everywhere in Europe)<br />
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Anyways, the Basilica San Marco is beautiful. Unfortunate that the outside has scaffolding on it (seems like there's a lot of that everywhere!) No pictures inside, but we got some from the entrance area that looks a lot like the inside. Basically the inside has a lot of gold. Much more than any other church we've been inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see here the planks they use when they have Aqua Alta (flooding). In fact, they had a huge aqua alta a couple days previously where it was well over a metre higher than normal and flooded all of Venice. So glad we missed that. I'm pretty sure those planks didn't help with that kind of flooding.</td></tr>
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Right beside the Basilica San Marco and square, we went in and toured Doge's Palace. Once again, we weren't allowed pictures inside of the Palace, but if we were outside we snapped a few pictures. Inside the Palace, we walked through where the prison cells were... so many! we actually got lost in there and somehow got turned around. I couldn't imagine how nasty those cells would have been way back then.<br />
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We then went for a gondola ride. I don't think you can visit Venice and not spend the big bucks and go for a ride at least once. And quite frankly, it was 80 euro well spent because we loved it. Our gondolier was very nice. He said that he comes from a long line of gondoliers. He's father did it, his grandfather did it. And gondoliers are all native venitians. It stays within the family. I must say that we were very impressed with how well they can navigate those long boats through those small canals. Every time we went around a corner, we came within inches of the buildings but not once did we hit it. I asked him if he'd ever fallen in and he did admit that he had three times... but he's been a gondolier for 18 years, so I think that's pretty good, don't you think?<br />
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We then went for a walk. More walking. We found an old church to look through (which isn't hard cause our gondolier said there was well over 100 churches in Venice... one on almost each island) and we found a large park space (surprising, since we had gotten the impression that most of Venice was tiny with tiny streets, but this one island was huge and thus they could have a huge green space). It was nice to see a different part of Venice... and in this part of Venice, we saw hardly any tourists.<br />
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The only street in Venice that we found that was big. We were actually surprised. And there were hardly any tourists around here.</td></tr>
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Dinner that night was eaten in a small restaurant on the edge of Venice. When we were just standing outside trying to decide if we'd eat there or not, the waiter came out and tried to coax us in. And when we did go in, we were the only ones. It's so strange to see the waiters waiting around, standing feet from our table the whole time. I don't know how restaurants manage to stay in business. The pizza/calzones that we ate here were so good. Probably the best we had in our stay in Italy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice restaurant. This restaurant has been around for more than a hundred years.</td></tr>
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And lastly, would you believe that the majority of my pictures from Venice are probably just random pictures we took while on our walks through Venice. So, to finish off this blog posting, I'm going to just post some of the randomness of Venice.... because it was the small details and the small streets, canals and bridges that really made us love Venice. The big touristy stuff I've posted about thus far, is cool, but really, it's the smaller stuff we love.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you love to shop, you'd love Venice. Lots of shops in buildings but lots in the streets like this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Graffit. Graffiti. So much. This isn't even bad compared to some places in Venice. In fact, our first night, I think every street was covered in graffiti and it felt like we were walking down the slums of Venice... maybe we were cause there weren't any other tourists around most of the time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "virtual geocache". One of the coolest buildings in Venice, though it's not the easiest to find because it was down a maze of small streets.</td></tr>
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Well, good-bye Venice. Maybe one day we'll be able to return. <br />
Late that night we boarded another sleeper train heading for Munich, Germany. This time we were happy to find that we had power and heat.<br />
Oh, and one last story. Speaking of sleeper train.... we almost missed it. We arrived at the train station 15 minutes before it was to depart, thinking that that is more than enough time to get on. Except, when we looked at the board, there was no train listed as going to Munich. Uh oh. So we asked some workers and they said "what about that one?" Nope, it says it's going somewhere else. "Did you look on the board?" Yes and Munich isn't listed. "Well, go way down there to the other side and ask at information." Except by this point, we had only 5 minutes before it was to leave and it certainly wasn't going to wait for us. In the end, we stopped another worker, who then said that our Munich bound train was attached onto another train and part way there, the trains would split and carry on to their separate destinations. Oh. Well, that explains why we couldn't find Munich, they only listed one of the two. So, we hopped on and thankfully it was just minutes before it departed. So close. So, lesson of the day, don't assume it will be a quick hop on and come earlier.Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-83568352849653830182013-03-04T09:25:00.002-08:002013-03-04T09:25:28.004-08:00February 14<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;">Day 45</span><br />
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Happy Valentines Day.<br />
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We only had the morning to spend in Florence before we were to take a train to Venice, so we decided that we would take a bus and go visit Fiesole, a small hillside town just outside of Florence.<br />
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Fiesole was a nice change. It was super quiet. We definitely avoided the tourists here.<br />
The bus dropped us off and the first place we headed to was an old church. It was just across the road from where we got off.<br />
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Just behind the church, there was a small street that went further up a hill. We didn't know where it would lead us, but we decided to take a walk up. At the top of the hill, we came to a park with some pretty interesting trees, but an amazing view of Florence below. Wow. I loved it up here!<br />
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We walked just a short way up further and the little road ended at another old church and what used to be a convent. We had a little walk around.<br />
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We continued on and found a little pathway that led away from the church. Down the pathway we found an old graveyard and a few places that had some views...<br />
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Well, we ran out of time to explore much further. We walked down some side streets and then hopped back on the bus to go back to Florence. We then went to the train station and said good-bye to Florence as we headed to Venice.<br />
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Stepping out of the train station in Venice was like stepping into a whole new world. You step out and right there was the main large canal, full of all different kinds of boats. Another place that felt very surreal to be walking through. Our hotel was just a block or so away from the train station. With it being Valentines Day, there were a lot of guys selling stuff in the streets, particularly they were selling roses. It was a bit of a nuisance to have them constantly harassing us. Cam did buy me one rose one the way to the hotel. Our hotel was on a tiny narrow street (I could touch the buildings on both sides if I stretched my arms out wide). Our room had all glass lighting, I assume was made in Murano, and the walls were entirely covered by fabric. It was the perfect room for Valentines Day.<br />
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After dropping off our luggage and checking into the hotel, we decided to take the public transit boats down the main canal. There we can get off at the far end of Venice, walk around a bit, grab a bite to eat for dinner and then attend the music concert we had tickets for later that night.<br />
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The music concert was so nice. The music was beautiful. Although I must say that the guy who played the cello stole the show... I've never seen someone so into the music he played. The guy moved his head around so much, it was like watching someone have an epilepsy attack. I wonder if he has whiplash after each performance? And his facial expressions were priceless. He made it a very entertaining performance. We loved it.<br />
We walked back to our hotel afterwards. Venice is like a maze! Especially at night. We took a lot of small streets back cause we couldn't seem to find the main one and there weren't too many people out and about still, so there was no one to follow.<br />
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It was a great Valentines Day. I can't think of a better place to spend it and it was only made better by spending it with the one person I love so much.Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-66647064503501977822013-03-03T20:53:00.003-08:002013-03-03T21:16:33.587-08:00February 13<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Day 44</span></span><br />
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Our day to explore Florence.<br />
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First off.... a couple pictures to show our Hotel room. With each hotel we stayed in, we progressively got bigger (thankfully). London (which I don't think I posted pictures of), was so tiny, there was only a foot of space around the bed and not much more. This one in Florence felt nice and roomy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love these! Only our hotels in Italy had them. Hot water runs through them making the towels nice and hot.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We started the day out by going for a walk, doing some shopping at the markets in the street and visiting the Galleria Dell Academia. The Galleria Dell Academia has some of the oldest musical instruments in the world and it also has the original David statue. I was very surprised at the size of the statue. It was a good 15 feet high, if not more. Sorry, no pictures inside the Galleria Dell Academia (though there were two other copies of the David statue that were in public areas that we took pictures of, but the original was in this little museum)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unusual building. American money stuck on the outside of the building. Why is it on there? Why do people not take it off? (well, all the lower bills have all been removed, but still, surely someone would be motivated to get the higher stuff?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing some shopping. Cam bought a leather belt. I bought a silk scarf. A few items for the kids.</td></tr>
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Next we went and saw the Duomo and the Baptistry. Very cool buildings. Lots of detail inside and outside of the Duomo. Actually, we might have spent the most time inside the Duomo. The paintings on the ceiling were really amazing and actually, really quite odd. I spent a lot of time wondering why the paintings were painted the way they were. In particular, the bottom part of the dome on the ceiling had a painting of Hell and it was quite disturbing. Yikes! We walked up the hundreds of stairs to the top of the Duomo and enjoyed the beautiful view of Florence. The stairs in there were crazy narrow and dark and it made for some fun trying to pass strangers. Ha ha. At the top, we met another LDS family and had a brief visit with them.<br />
And we didn't actually get to go inside the Baptistry. It was under construction inside and they weren't admitting anyone. Too bad. <br />
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From the Duomo, we went for a walk to Piazza della Signora (one of the two duplicate David statues was located here) and we went through the Uffizi (sorry, no pictures inside) And can I add, there's some, um, interesting statues here. ha ha.<br />
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We then headed over to Ponte Vecchio. A very cool bridge that had a lot of (expensive) jewelry stores, but also some pretty amazing views.<br />
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By this point, it was starting to get dark and it was almost sunset. This was one of the few times that we actually decided to splurge and get a taxi up to Piazza Michelangelo. How happy we were because the sunset up there with such an amazing view was a fantastic way to end of the day. Oh, and here we learned a lesson about public transit... buses, you need to buy tickets in advance and cannot buy them on a bus (as we thought originally that we could take the bus back down.... so we were very thankful there was still a taxi in the area)<br />
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And that wraps up our day of sight-seeing in Florence. We LOVED Florence. And the last thing we did was go for dinner. We debated on where to go, but ended up picking a little restaurant that was just a couple doors down from our hotel. It looked so nice whenever we walked by. I don't know how restaurants survive... we were the only ones in there for a very long time. And not only was it a lovely restaurant to look at, but it also had THE BEST dinner there. It's been a few weeks and I still can't stop thinking about how good dinner was. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.<br />
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-81908187051785237002013-03-03T15:11:00.001-08:002013-03-13T15:10:45.010-07:00February 12<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">Day 43</span><br />
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Our day started off by finding some inserts for my shoes... cause my feet are so sore. Thankfully there was a little drug store just a couple doors down from our hotel. We also walked through this little park that was across the road from our hotel. Like I mentioned before, there are ruins all around Rome. I love it.<br />
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This day was spent exploring the Vatican. There was quite a bit of media around, since the Pope had just announced that he would be stepping down. Once again, we were so surprised with how many people there were here. It seemed like it was a day of standing in line. Long lines of over an hour wait. We found that the lines usually resulted from security check stops (which I don't understand why they have anyways, because they have metal detectors that you walk through and EVERYONE beeps and they just wave you through.... and that's the case in every museum in Europe it seemed) Anyways, we enjoyed looking through the museums. So much to see....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many people! And yet, February is the least busy month of the year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the most famous statues. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">Laocoön</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another famous statue. The Belvedere Torso.</td></tr>
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We still had some time in Rome, so we decided to go and see the Spanish Steps.<br />
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After a long day, it was time for us to say good-bye to Rome. We caught an evening train and we headed to Florence. Thankfully it was a fairly short train ride, just two hours. <br />
On a side note, this is what Cam spent his time doing on the train...<br />
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Cam keeps the most detailed records. He writes down EVERYTHING. What we spend on food, transportation, hotels, attractions, spending... right down to the penny. He also has a detailed list of everything we are to see and do and what times are and where they are.....<br />
Anyways, it's a good thing he enjoys this kind of stuff, cause it's not my thing and I will admit that I didn't do anything in the planning of this trip. In case I haven't said it.... Thank you so much Cam for all your hard work.Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-42603107875859649892013-03-03T10:22:00.001-08:002013-03-03T10:22:20.762-08:00February 11<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">Day 42</span><br />
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Well, after a long, cold train ride (see previous post), we were glad to finally arrive in Rome. Before we even got off the train, I could tell that Rome was going to be so completely different than anywhere I've ever been. We'd be sitting on the train and I would notice that there were old Roman ruins that were random among the streets. It was very cool to see.<br />
We checked into our hotel, grabbed a bite to eat at a local restaurant (our first taste of Italian pizza) and then we walked to the Colosseum. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different kind of ham on this pizza.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute restaurant. Loved how they don't plaster all the walls and allow the brick to still be seen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking to the colosseum, we walked through this park, that had old ruins in them.</td></tr>
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After touring around the Colosseum, we decided to head over to the Forums, after all, they were right next to each other. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that the entrance was a couple blocks away and not easy to find. By time we got to the Forums, they had closed their entrance gates. Apparently, an hour before close, they don't let anyone in. So, after some debate, we decided that we would just settle for walking above and looking from a distance rather than come back the next day. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tower had the most intricate detail. There's no way to capture all that we saw in person.</td></tr>
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We continued on our way, exploring the streets of Rome. One thing we've noticed about Italy, the driving is crazy. No lines except a middle line. Once again, so glad we're not driving here. We then came to the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva church.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Vittoriano building looked like "Ceasar's Palace" in Las Vegas.</td></tr>
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Walking some more, we came to the Pantheon. Very cool building. Interesting feature, the hole in the ceiling, really is a hole and when it rains, the rain comes right inside. So, when we arrived, it had rained earlier and the whole middle section of the Pantheon was closed off cause it was a big giant puddle. Also, inside the Pantheon holds the tomb of Raphael, a famous artist.<br />
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We headed over to Piazza Navona. It was at this point that it started to pour rain. POUR! And the thunder and lightening was crazy too. We took refuge in a store and looked around and when we saw that the rain wasn't going to stop any time soon, we found the nearest restaurant and stopped for dinner. Dinner was fabulous! And dessert... the best gelato we had in Italy! Even though it was raining hard, we decided to eat outside under the awning. <br />
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After dinner, we walked the streets in the rain. All the regular street peddlers all come out and harass you and try to get you to buy their umbrellas... even though we clearly already had one. We walked over and saw Trevi Fountains and then headed back to our hotel. It had been a long day and we had done A LOT of walking, but it was a great day, even with the rain.<br />
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With it being Sunday, we started our morning off by going to church. Church is not held in the typical chapel that we're used to back home. It was in the building shown below. Sacrament was held in a regular room and sunday school classes/primary were in a different section of building that you access by crossing a courtyard/parking area. Lucky for us, there must be enough visitors that frequent this ward because they had headphones for us to wear and a missionary that then translated everything (though it only worked half of the time). We only stayed for the sacrament meeting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LDS church we attended in Paris</td></tr>
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A short walk down from the church, we came upon this really cool old hotel. Unfortunately it looks like it's not being used any more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old hotel in Paris - Hotel Deville</td></tr>
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Next we went to see the Notre Dame Cathedral. It was surprisingly busy. When we arrived, there was a line up of people to get in. Although, shortly after getting inside, we soon discovered that an actual worship service was starting (thus the reason why there was probably so many people). Although we just continued to walk around during their service, I must admit that the singing was extremely nice to listen to, especially in such a big cathedral. Of course, lots of detail in everything. And some strange statues. I look at a lot of the art and I often wonder why the artist made it that way. What's the story behind them? (In fact, I asked this question constantly throughout our entire Europe trip)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example of some statues that made me ask "why?". See the guy on the left, he's standing on a little man instead of a pedistal like the rest of them.</td></tr>
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Moving along. Next stop we went to the St. Sulpice church. This church was made famous mostly from the book/movie "The Davinchi Code" and it's reference to the "Rose Line". As much as I loved reading that book when it came out, I must admit that I couldn't remember the details for it to have any significance when we looked through this church.<br />
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Moving along. We hopped on the metro. We visited what some locals dubbed "the second most romantic place in Paris, right after the Eiffel Tower". What location could it be?? A wall with "I love you" written in almost every language. Very cool.<br />
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Walking a couple blocks down the road, we came to the Sacre Coeur Basilica. Very cool building. Not too long after we arrived here, it started to snow big giant snowflakes. Sorry, no pictures are allowed in the Sacre Coeur Basilica. I will say this though, this was the location of the most aggressive "street vendors", if you can call them that. One guy even grabbed hold of my wrist and wouldn't let go. So annoying. <br />
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After going through the Sacre Coeur Basilica, we went for a walk down the nearby streets and stopped in at the St.Pierre De Montmarte church (which was pretty well right beside the Sacre Coeur. What drew my attention to St.Pierre De Montmarte, was the fact that it had an awesome courtyard (full of statues and old tombstones) that we could see from the street, but unfortunately that part was closed off to the public. Bummer. Once again we saw police walking around carrying their machine-guns (have I mentioned that we saw the police and their big guns walking around all over Paris?)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We LOVED walking around the small streets here. Also, best shopping we saw in Paris (unfortunately, with it being Sunday, we unfortunately didn't purchase anything here... and that was hard to do!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street view of StPierre De Montmarte church</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a shortcut through some small streets to get back to the metro, we came across this little tiny courtyard park.</td></tr>
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Before going down into the metro tunnels, we found there was another church (yes, we went through a lot of churches). So, we thought we would stop in and walk through it too before heading on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interesting pictures in this church. Lots of skulls and crossbones.</td></tr>
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Well, our day had come to an end. It was time to head to the train station, where we were to take a sleeper train to Rome, Italy. What started out as something fun, ended up being not so much fun when we discovered that our section of train had no power, which meant no lights and no heat. It was a very long 16 hour train ride. I had packed small flashlights (which was intended for night-time caching), which ended up being convenient to use as half of our trip was through tunnels and then it truly was pitch black.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Due to no heat and being cold, we spent the last several hours sitting in the dining car (which did have power).</td></tr>
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<br />Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-79774355285935625572013-02-27T18:53:00.000-08:002013-02-27T20:42:07.734-08:00February 9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Day 40</span><br />
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Goodbye London England.<br />
Hello Paris France.<br />
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We started out the day by taking a high-speed Eurostar train from London to Paris. <br />
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As usual, we navigated the underground metro to get to our hotel. It's a good thing Cam was with me, cause it was a maze of tunnels and different train stations. I don't know how Cam can navigate his way around without ever getting lost.... it's almost like he lives in these places with how well he gets around. <br />
First thing I noticed about Paris and using the public transit.... the metro stations are not as clean as the ones in England. And there's a lot of homeless living in the underground station stops. <br />
But, there are garbages. I know, you must think that I strange comment, but we couldn't find a single garbage can anywhere in England and it was annoying if we bought lunch on the run and couldn't find a garbage to put stuff in.<br />
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We loved our hotel in Paris. Though it was still tiny in size, the staff was extremely friendly and helpful. And our hotel room was cozy (and tiny). Just how tiny? Well, for example, the toilet in the bathroom... you had to sit on it sideways cause there was no leg room with the sink being there. And below is a picture of the hallway to our room. I didn't take a picture, but they also had the tiniest elevators. When I claimed that I couldn't fit in it with Cam and our little bit of luggage, the woman at the front desk said "get inside, it's romantic". I've never known an elevator to be "romantic".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">is it possible to have a smaller hallway??</td></tr>
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Our first stop in Paris? A bakery just a couple doors down from our hotel. It became quite obvious to us that it was a bakery that tourists don't normally go in because no one spoke english. We did manage to get something to eat. Croissants in France are.... amazing. Nothing like the ones they make back home. I think I ate a croissant every day for the first week we were in Europe. Mmmm.<br />
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After a quick bite to eat, we hopped on the metro and made our way to the Louvre. That museum is ridiculously big. You could spend days and days in there. In fact, we got lost in there trying to find our way around. We enjoyed seeing the Mona Lisa, the statue of Venus, paintings by famous artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance. Under the glass pyramid.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lot of statues. Most were nude. It's a good thing my kids weren't with us, I could just imagine what they'd be saying...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful ceilings in every room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mona Lisa. A must-see. This is as close as you can get to her.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The size of a lot of the paintings. So big. Cam's so small in comparison.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another must-see. The statue of Venus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fireplace. I wish the camera could adequately capture the detail. Still amazing regardless.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Louvre is SO BIG. All of this is the Louvre.</td></tr>
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A short walk on the other side of the Louvre, we found a geocache beside a really old church called Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church. Of course we had to go inside and take a look. <br />
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We walked back around the Louvre. It was at this point, that my feet were starting to really ache. So much walking and we were only a couple of days into our trip. I recall sitting outside the Louvre, looking into the far distance and being able to see the outline of the Eiffel Tower and hearing Cam say that he plans for us to walk all the way there still and my response was "why do you want to torture me?!" So, we decided to walk and find a metro station (still blocks away) and take the train (thankfully!).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Eiffel Tower in the far distance. I don't want to walk all the way there!</td></tr>
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As it turned out, it was a good thing we didn't walk all the way to the Eiffel Tower. It was late afternoon when we left the Louvre and little did we realize at that time, that it would be a 3 hour wait to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. That's right, 3 hours in the end. I'm so glad it's not summer time, cause I can't imagine how long the line up would be then! February is supposed to be the slowest month of the year! But, it really was worth the wait. We got to enjoy it in the daylight and at night. Sweet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the second viewing platform, while we waited in another line to go up to the top.</td></tr>
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Before calling it a night, we managed to find a restaurant that was still open. Although we had a waiter that could speak a bit of english, we still ended up ordering a dinner that we didn't know what it was. I really can't tell you what we ate. No idea. I'm pretty sure it was meat of some kind. But it had a texture like jello. Ew. Cam on the other hand liked it, me not so much. Dessert was really good though. Sorry, no pictures of dinner (too bad, maybe someone could have told me what I ate!)</div>
Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-22590388567939082122013-02-27T16:21:00.002-08:002013-02-27T17:43:09.990-08:00February 8<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Day 39</span><br />
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Our day started early. We met Cam's parents at the train station. It was ridiculously BUSY! I learned another lesson about England... no one walks at a normal pace. Everyone is either speed walking or running. The English have places to go and they need to get there fast. Also, there's rules about things like riding on an escalator. Stand on the right, walk up on the left. Don't even think about standing side by side... I'm sure they'd run you over!<br />
First stop was to find a geocache. I must admit that I absolutely loved the little park that it took us to. I would have liked to have more time to look around and read. Little hidden gems like this park is why I love geocaching....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing extraordinary about the cache. It was all about the location.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old tombstones lined the walls of this little park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An unexpected find. A memorial to heroic self sacrifice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wall. I must admit, I shed a tear reading through some of these.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wish I could share all of the stories with you.</td></tr>
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Next stop.... St. Paul's cathedral. It was amazing. Unfortunately, photos inside were not permitted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Paul's Cathedral. The sheer size of these buildings is amazing.</td></tr>
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Let's keep going. After a quick lunch, we went for a walk and we went to the Tower of London.<br />
Inside we saw the "Tower of terror" that told about torture. We saw lots of armor, shields, cannons, etc. We saw the Crown Jewels (too bad we couldn't take pictures of those! They were impressive!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The outside of the Tower of London. It would have been cool if it still had water in it's mote.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of armor from different royalty to look at. See the little tiny one there?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dragon was cool. Made from cannons, rifles, shields, bolts, etc.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kind Henry VIII's armor. I couldn't stop laughing. Oh my.</td></tr>
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Moving along. We went out onto the walkway to look at the Tower Bridge better. Very cool. <br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">We decided to take the public transportation boats and head up river towards the Parliament buildings. It was fun to go for a ride on the boat. Once there, we went for a long walk and we spent some time sight-seeing.... see the below pictures....</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Ben. That's another thing.... all the bells ringing from different churches in Europe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cool park. Loved the little cottage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful inside for this small church. We sat and listened to the small orchestra rehearsing for their Bach performance for later that night.</td></tr>
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Phew! We're almost done. It's crazy to see all the things we did in one day. To finish off the day, we enjoyed a broadway musical..... Phantom of the Opera. When Cam mentioned that maybe we could see a musical, I said "if you want to make me really happy, you'll take me to see Phantom." I've always wanted to go. And it did not disappoint. A really fabulous way to end off our day in London.<br />
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Our flight landed in the Gatwick Airport in England at 10am. We took a taxi straight from the airport to the London Temple, where Cam's parents are currently serving a mission. The taxi ride was fun.... I kept forgetting they drive on the other side of the road and every time we turned a corner, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack from seeing cars in the lane I'm used to turning in. Good thing I wasn't driving! First off, here are a couple of things I noticed right away about England....<br />
1) Everything is so green. It looks like spring. Complete with flowers. All that is missing is leaves on the trees.<br />
2) Farms are not rectangular shaped like they are back home. They're all different odd shapes. And they are divided up by trees and bushes instead of just barb-wire fences like they are back home.<br />
3) A lot of trees. Lots. And they're big and tall. I thought we had lots of trees back home, but not compared to England.<br />
4) I love English accents. I hear them and I can't help but smile. And when I hear phrases like "rubbish", it makes me want to laugh cause we just don't say that kind of stuff back home.<br />
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Anyways, we met Cam's Mom, had some lunch and went for a walk around the temple grounds and to find a nearby geocache (which was just across the road from the temple). The Temple grounds are huge!! And very beautiful. And although the London Temple is not the fanciest looking temple, I must admit that I absolutely love the steeple on it!!<br />
After a while, we joined Cam's parents in the temple, where we then had the opportunity to do sealings for family names. What a priveledge it was to tour through the temple (I've seen more of the London temple, then I have of any other temple I've ever been in) and be able to use one of the lesser-used sealing rooms (there's 8 of them, on 3 different floors) and we even were able to meet the entire temple presidency (how often does that happen?)<br />
Well, here's a few pictures from our afternoon at the London Temple....<br />
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After spending the day at the temple, it was time for Cam and I to board an hour long train into London. Staying awake on the train was challenging.<br />
Our hotel is a short walk from King's Cross Station, but before heading to our hotel, we had to make a little stop in the train station. After all, being a Harry Potter fan, finding Platform 9 3/4 was a must on my to-do list. <br />
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After being up for almost 30 hours, it meant that it was an early night to bed. I think we both crashed around 8:30pm.Amber Kiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832298551988460255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4949225090869531097.post-90363531183941872162013-02-27T11:05:00.003-08:002013-02-27T11:05:53.022-08:00February 6<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">(fyi, the next 14 days will have LOTS of pictures.... as I'm blogging about our European trip and ALL the things we saw and did)</span></div>
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Cam and I have never been away on a vacation without kids, ever. That's right. Our oldest is now 12, so we were long over-due to get away. A long time ago, I had said we'd go away for our 10th wedding anniversary. It came. It went. I said the kids were too young to leave at home. So, I said we'd go away for our 15th anniversary, which was just last summer.<br />
So, where to go?? We both took some time to think for ourselves where we would most like to go. Should we go somewhere warm? Should we go somewhere far away?<br />
In the end, we sat down and had a little discussion and we both agreed we wanted to go to Europe. To be honest, I've always wanted to go to Italy and even Cam, who travels lots, has never been there.<br />
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Anyways, we are on our way. I'm so excited. I haven't been on a plane in about 13 years. A long time.<br />
With getting on the plane at 6pm, it was dark outside. And then we flew all through the night on one of the most cramped, squished airplanes ever (even Cam said he's never seen one so tight). It was a long flight!!<br />
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The first sign that the sun was starting to come up. Yay. Only an hour left on our plane ride at that point.<br />
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