A Glimpse at Royalty

Hey guys, Micah here.

I just thought I'd tell you about last Saturday, when we went to London with some friends to watch the play "Wicked." By the way, it was a great play, and forget everything you ever learned from the film Wizard of Oz, because it's all just subterfuge and a cover story for what really happened.

Okay, back to the rest of the day in London. As we were walking to the theater (and quite lost,) we saw a big crowd of people gathered near the palace, so we wandered over to see what was going on. We learned that it was the queen's official birthday celebration, and about 2 minutes later prince Harry and William scampered by in a horse-drawn carriage:



Jennie says the woman in blue is Camille. I'm not sure who that is, which probably exposes my ignorance of the Royal Family. However, a few minutes later another woman in blue rode by:




And even an ignoramus like me knows that that's the queen, so needless to say we were glad we stopped by to see what the crowd was all about. After all, the queen is almost as difficult to catch on film as this other camera-shy personality:

Okay, well I'm off to bed, have a happy Tuesday everyone!

Home from the Mediterranean

We came back from our cruise through the Mediterranean yesterday. We had such an amazing time. I wish we could share all the beautiful pictures with you all but we took well over 100 and I don't want to bore you:). But I will share a few of my favorites.

Here are a few pictures we took from the boat as we left Venice. It was beautiful there. We both agreed we will have to go back to Italy soon and spend some time in Venice. Unfortunately this is the most we saw of Italy.



Croatia was our first stop on the cruise. We went to a small town called Split and it could very well have been the dumpiest place I have ever seen. But that was the day we did an excursion and we went out to Krka National Park. It was so green and lush and full of waterfalls. Micah and I hiked around for about an hour and then we toured the mills they had there. They actually used the water to power big stone wheels to grind corn meal. Now being from the Pacific Northwest it will be easy to see why this place amazed us so.

Our second stop was Corfu Greece. Micah and I rented a scooter here and we buzzed all around. The most magnificent find we came across was an old Greek monastery. It had the most amazing view. We also saw the cutest dog EVER fast asleep by a boat because he had just played too hard.


Our third day brought us to Athens. Believe it or not this was probably my least favorite day. It was the nicest day we had had so far on the cruise and all I wanted was a beach and some sunscreen. Instead I got a bunch of ruins and a lot of walking. But I was happy we went because it was amazing. When we first got to Athens and I looked up and saw the hill we had to climb to get to the the Parthenon, I thought there was no way we would make it...but we did and it was totally worth it.


After Athens we went to Mykynos, my absolute favorite stop! Mykonos is the classic Greek island with all the white houses and blue and red roofs. It was breathtaking. We rented scooters this day too and had a BLAST!! On this day we both got our own scooter and scooted all over the island. It was nice to be on our own so we could go wherever we wanted. We went high into the hills and looked at all the houses. I would love to go back at least one more time and spend just a weekend there. So pretty!!

The last stop we made was Katakalon. On the island of Katakalon you can find Olympia. So we went up there and saw the Temple of Zeus and the place where they held the very first Olympics. It was quite something. This first picture is Micah running through the tunnel that the very first Olympians ran through to compete in the first games.

So I don't want to bore you with too much more. I think I may have overdone it already with this post. But if you want to see all of our pictures I will have them on my facebook page so feel free to check that out and look at the rest of our pictures.