Europe Part 2

For everyone that was sitting by their computer in anticipation of the second round of pictures from our Europe trip ... your prayers were answered! haha! We present to you Part 2: Rome



Here we are at one of the many train stations on our trip.


The Vatican was awesome to see thanks to our fantastic tour guide. We were able to get in early before the museum even opened! We highly recommend signing up for a tour if anyone decides to go!


This is right out side St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican City.


Inside St. Peter's. This place was HUGE! Under that thing behind us is where Peter himself is buried.


Shhh! We're not supposed to be taking pictures in the Sistine Chapel ;)



Linz was soooo craving this Snickers. Luckily it hit the spot ... it better have for 2 Euros! haha


If you remember from Part I photos, we had a picture with shells at the beach. We had planned to take some home, and Seth even lathered, rinsed and repeated cleaning the shells ... but they still stunk up our luggage. Sadly, we threw them out.


Seth's bro, Scott, was all about hitting up the Hard Rock in Rome.


On a tour bus, top deck, wind flowing through our hair, listening to the tour as we circle the city.



The Colosseum! It was kinda funny when we went inside, we were watching this guy walk all around the place looking for a piece to chip off the columns and stuff. Why pay for a souvenir when you can create your own huh?


View of the Arch from inside the Colussium

This was massive!


Good times .... good times...


Chillin' in the Forum. We only had 2 days in Rome which worked out perfect. One day spent at the Vatican, and the other for the Coloseum and the Forum.


This is one of my favorite shots of all of us on the trip. Standing in front of the forum.

YYYY M C A! yukuk





We came ... we saw ... we conquered!


Well this is a story all of it's own. After hitting the beach in Venice Linz got a crazy sunburn on part of her legs that made her legs swell up like a ... uh ... something! (even after applying SPF 50 sunscreen) It was pretty hard getting around near the end of Venice, here in Rome and the beginning of Switzerland. I even had to help stand her up in the morning and walk her around till her ankles and legs warmed up. The swelling completely locked up her joints! She was a trooper though, I mean ... you're only in Europe once, right? And ... when in Rome! haha ... but I digress ...


.... not even close to the Mirage as Seth knows it here in Las Vegas!


So as you can see, Rome was a lot of fun (aside from Lindsay's inability to walk) haha! There was a whole lot to see and we learned a lot of interesting stuff! Next stop .... Switzerland!!! (If we ever get around to posting Part 3 of this 4 part series! haha)

Europe: Part 1

Yes, I realize we have been back from our trip for a month and no pictures yet. My family keeps asking when I am going to blog about the trip...so here goes part 1:

We flew out of Las Vegas and met up with Scott and Cassie (Seth's brother and his wife) in SLC. We endured a long red-eye flight to Paris where we had the day to kill before our night train departed to Venice.

Starting off the trip...

We ate yummy crepes while we gazed at the Eiffel Tower

It rained while we were there...

Night train to Venice, Italy...It was a long ride! (around 14 hours...)

Scott & Seth

We made it! Don't we look fantastic after literally days of travel??? We took a water taxi to the house we stayed at.

Venice was absolutely beautiful! We loved it there and definitely will be going back someday!

This was the front yard of the house we stayed in. (one of the few in Venice with a yard) Cassie did an awesome job with our accomodations! We were in a little locals area but still super close to all the touristy sites/things.

Cute little house from the other view...

Rialto Bridge

The gang: Cassie, Scott, me, Seth

Very expensive birthday cake!

Mask shop fun

Can't go to Venice without riding in a gondola!

These boys are weird!

Mmmm...gelato!

Heading to the beach in Lido

We found lots of cool shells, but they were too stinky to bring home!

One of the many pharmacy shots...I bought some much needed aloe vera gel at this one!

We went to a Vivaldi concert one night (he grew up in Venice ya know)

Piazza San Marco

San Marco Basilica

Prison under Doge's palace (where Casanova escaped)

So sad to leave Venezia...but excited to see Rome next!

Where to begin...

Where do you start when you haven't blogged for months?!?

Let's see...

Back in April some friends that I graduated high school with left their kiddos and husbands behind and made a little trip to Vegas! It was a weekend filled with shopping, eating, pedicures, and catching up! We also went to a session in the Las Vegas temple together. It made me realize how lucky and blessed I was to have and still have such great friends growing up! Love ya girls!





Seth and I occasionally like to play "tourist" in our town so one day we decided to go to the wax museum at the Venetian. (having free tickets helped) Here are a couple of my favorite pics from the excursion:

Seth Graduated! He is officially an alumnus from UNLV with a degree that basically has a long name. It goes something like this: International Business Major with a functional area study in Marketing and Eastern Europe (Russia) as his cultural area study. Because of the "swine flu" no one was allowed to shake hands when they received their diplomas so it was kinda funny for a while to see what people did instead of shaking. Both of our families were able to come down and celebrate. Way to go Seth!

We went to Europe! We recently returned from an almost 3 week vacation to Italy, Switzerland, and France. We had such a great time! I will be doing separate posts from the different areas so stay tuned!

We are off!

It's been a while.

It's gonna be another 3 weeks at least.

A lot has happened in our lives the past month.

We'll have to share later because tomorrow we are going on a little trip.

We can't wait to leave the country and see what it's like in France, Italy, and Switzerland.

Farewell!

Just thought you might want to know...

This is how I feel right now...

Other than that, things are great! We have our ultrasound on Thursday and are so excited to see what we're having and how it's doing! (make sure to get your guess in ;)