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07-17-2012, 07:49 PM
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I am back!
I am back from our trip to Europe. The kids survived our 15 day trip without us and Grandma and Grandpa did too! LOL We had an amazing time. Parts of our trip were very eye opening. We spent 5 days in Romania which was our favorite part of the trip. It's still mind blowing that they only came out of communism in the 1990's. I will share a few of our photos from each place we visited.
Starting out with our first stop Brussels The Grand Place: Right off the plane we ended up doing a 2 or 3 hr walking tour. We were exhausted!  The Galleria: (to the right side of the photo there is an old theatre which has a few rooms they rent out as a B & B and that is where we stayed  Ommegang: The event is focused around a reenactment of the arrival procession of Emperor Charles V in Brussels in 1549  Next up was Budapest, Hungary The Market in Budapest  The National Museum of Hungary  Szent István Statue  Budapest  Me being silly down in the Labyrinth  Next Stop Romania: St. Michael’s Church and the statue of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in Piaţa Unirii (Union Square)  Inside the church  I think this was the first hotel of Romania  Next Stop Small Village in Romania The street where our "cottage" was  Our Cottage (actually the nicest one on the block)  Most people in the village travel like this   Christmas Dinner  The Summer Shower  The cows really do come home  Next Stop Layover in Milan Italy: We had a 7 hr layover so we stored our luggage with the airport and then spent the day exploring the city. Views from the Bell Tower:  Italian Pizza  Bones of Saints? Not sure everything was in Italian  The Trolly car down the hill  Final stop Dublin: Dublin Castle  Christ Church  Our Tour Guide explaining the Famine Statue  The Guinness Tour:    Kilmainham Jail  The list of the men executed for one of many revolutions   The Oldest pub and our story telling dinner location  Well that's about all. I have over 1000 pics so I am sure you guys will be seeing lots of scraps about it all. Thanks for sitting it out so long to view these ones. One of many Cathedrals 
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07-17-2012, 08:11 PM
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Awe. I loved your pictures of Romania. My aunt and uncle are missionaries there and that is what a lot of their pictures look like too. I want to go there so bad!
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07-17-2012, 09:44 PM
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How amazing. It looks like a trip of a lifetime.
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07-18-2012, 12:48 AM
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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing! I recognize Guinness, my husband and I went there about 10 years ago.
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07-18-2012, 02:53 AM
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Great photos! You've covered quite a lot! I love that you made some unorthodox choices (meaning Budapest and Romania). Oh, and Milan - not really unorthodox but 100% my next travel destination in Italy. :-) I'm glad you liked your vacation and thanks for sharing the pictures!
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07-18-2012, 04:05 AM
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Wow! What an amazing trip! Such a great itinerary. Glad you had a good time and that the kids were fine too!
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07-18-2012, 08:25 AM
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Wow!!! Looks like it was an awesome adventure! Welcome home.
 Such amazing photos! I would love to travel Europe someday. I'm looking forward to seeing your pages with all of these memories & photos!!
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07-18-2012, 12:03 PM
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Thanks ladies. It truly was a trip of a life time. Though normally I wouldn't have chosen Hungary and Romania it was really nice to have a tour guide. Our best friends here in Washington are from Romania (though he is Hungarian his wife Iranian) and it was nice to have him there to translate for us. His Grandmother was truly a GEM! She had us all in tears even though my husband and I don't speak the language. We want to take our children there now wonder when that will happen. I hope soon enough for them to meet the Grandma she is however 93 so if we take them it better be sooner rather than later.
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07-18-2012, 02:05 PM
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It looks like you had an amazing trip, Kim! Were you able to visit Bruges? I heard that the weather here wasn't very good (I was away myself at the moment, I'm back now but we're still waiting for nice weather, boooo), I thought of you and hoped you had at least a bit of dry weather to do the tours!
I've been to Milan as well, I even have similar photos of those above-the-ground graves! They do that in a lot of churches and cathedrals in Italy. They're usual saints, artists or very important people like Di Medici, whom I believe was one of the ones I saw. Never been to Romania but would love to one day!
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07-18-2012, 02:08 PM
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so awesome!!! I would love to do a trip like that!
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07-18-2012, 03:37 PM
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What a wonderful experience! Thanks for sharing the pics, I loved seeing them.
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07-18-2012, 04:19 PM
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Kim yes we made it out to Bruges though we stopped at "westy" the brewery out there for my husband and for the other couple that was with us so we didnt make it back in time for the Canal boat ride.
 But here are a few pics of Bruges.     What I missed the canal tour for... :/  
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07-18-2012, 10:15 PM
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My husband loved the Belgium beer. I can't drink it anymore because it really makes my Acid Reflux go haywire! It used to be my favorite beer though. I did enjoy my very tiny bottles of Coke. LOL
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07-19-2012, 08:43 AM
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Kim, what an amazing trip! awesome pics!
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07-19-2012, 07:55 PM
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Wow, welcome back! It's awesome to go on a couples-vacation, isn't it? We did it for 16 nights in October and I wonder if the kids missed us. They were so spoiled by the grandparents!
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