As we continued on in Italy we felt that our first day was deceiving. As we continued on, we realized that driving was scary, English speakers were few, and we were feeling the need for something besides the gelato standby. Day Two: After securing a hotel we ventured out to get some grub in the…

Let’s be honest, many places we visited we did specifically to experience the food. We like food. Italy was no exception. Our first day there we went to a great authentic Italian restaurant. Devin ordered a pizza which once he saw it was wondering why he ordered so much.  But that was no problem. I…

After a two-day pit stop in Dijon, France, we were on to Switzerland. Switzerland ended up being one of my favorite places that we visited. It was so beautiful and the countryside was refreshing.  We took a tram ride up a mountain. This was only one of dozens of them and the shortest (cheapest) one…

One of our more enjoyable outings in Paris was to the Arch de Triumph. We were debating wether or not to go but then decided to go for it and were fully prepared to make the hike to the top. When we got to the front of the line to go up, the not-so-pleasant ticket…

  We went to see the Eiffel Tower twice during our visit. The first one was nice but we didn’t do our research to find out when it twinkles so we had to make a second trip. Hanging out on a park bench.   Our little girl all tuckered out after our late trip. Trip…

We spent a little more time in Paris because there was so much to do. We found out there are more museums than anyone knows what to do with. And, that we are not museum buffs. But there are some interesting people who are museum buffs. Exhibit A We loved this lady. Devin tried for…

Then we were off to Belgium. We spent one night in Brussels, though unintentionally. It was one of those many days where we were tired, Katelyn needed a major break from the car, and there wasn’t an open restaurant in site. The first of many. But a good old American hotel chain can fix everything….

Moving towards Belgium, we made a stop at the Burg Eltz castle. It was at this point that we started to notice that nearly everywhere we stopped, the site was under some sort of renovation. That made for some bummer pictures (hence the out of place crane) and some pictures non-existent. As we drove through…

Our first major stop was Rhine Valley in Germany. There we took a boat ride up the river to one of the many castles. My favorite part was seeing the terraced grape crops all along the river. In the little town that we stayed in, we had our first of dozens of pizzas. At that…

We continued our tradition of taking pictures at temples. However, we just realized that we forgot to go see the Switzerland Temple. Bummer. But here is the Frankfurt, Germany Temple.