Paris

Sacre Couer

L'Arc de Triomphe

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Louvre

Amsterdam

Sitting in a large wooden shoe.
Another wooden show in the Amsterdam Historisch Museum.

Mmmm. Pancakes.

On the way to Anne Frank's house.

See the grey building with the white window balcony? That's the narrowest building in Amsterdam. 1 1/2 meters wide!

Orange streamers for the Amsterdam soccer team.

Pretty.

Our room in Marie-Ann's Houseboat.

Walking to town.

Sha la la la, You Gotta ... Kiss the Girl

Copenhagen was once home to the legendary fairy-tale writer, Hans Christian Anderson. As an hommage to this writer, a later sculpture created a statue in the harbor representing one of his stories, "The Little Mermaid," (hence the title of this post).

Copenhagen also has hundreds of beautiful buildings, petina statues galore, and ferocious swans.

Below is one of the cool spires the decorate the city.

Petina statue.

Third largest dome in Europe.

Changing of the guard ... all ten of them.

Pretty church.

Chris and me.

"Wish I could be ... part of their world ..." (Me with the Little Mermaid statue).

Neat picture of a mama swan. This one did not attack.

This one did. (Moments before it grabbed ahold of Chris's jeans).

Roses decorate many of the entry ways all around the city.

The royal palace.

Chris is the "iron and glass arboretum," which turned out to be a very hot greenhouse. lol Very pretty though.

Copenhagen's version of Times Square.

In Tivoli Gardens, a 19th-century amusement park. (The big band and swing dancers in the video below were also in Tivoli).

Cool spire.

In the armory.

I can take 'em. Let me just get this thing aimed...

Crossbow.

Band and dancers.

The swans look nice enough here, but the drew blood from Chris and chased me around. lol

Can you hear the swan hissing at that lady? That's right. These suckers are mean.

Sailing Croatia

Our home for the week.

The guy in red on the left is our "guide-in-training", Ben. Sitting in front is Dannika and Ed. Next to Chris is our awesome friends Darryl and Mary. And in red on the right is our fearless guide, Grant.

On the city wall in Dubrovnik.

More of Dubrovnik.

Chris in Mljet when we finally found the open ocean.

Chris jumping in ... as usual.

I think this is Hvar. lol (Near the end of thetrip, it became difficult to keep all the islands straight.

Marco, one of the crew, readying the little boat to bring us back to our ship.

:-)

Chris jumping in off the boat.