PARIS

Today in front of Norte Dame

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The Louvre, after a 5 hour visit. I am wearing a red shirt because I was out of clean cloths. I purchase a tshirt later in the day

... Under a tree in Switzerland during a thunderstorm. Self Portrait. We were almost done with a great Mtn bike ride. Outside Interlaken. ... Chris on bike with 2 waterfalls in distance. ... Nancy at St. Paul's of Vence, France. In front of a Horse made of horse shoes, yep. ... Bugatti!!! Look it up. Probably only see one in Monte Carlo! ... VIP Monte Carlo ... The boat I promised Nancy! It has its own garage. ... Me, beer, French Riviera ...

Here we are at the end of our European Tour. We haven't posted updates on this site nearly as often as we would have liked. But we are here now so let's move on shall we? Here are some tid-bits since our last post: 1)

We walked into a Casino in Nice, France that was staring us in the face and begging us to come in. I, Chris, put 10 Euro into the machine for 5-card-draw with jokers wild and we walked out with 59 Euros which helped pay for some of our day. Another day after we walked all over Monte Carlo and ended up at the Casino at the end once again.... Beacause if you are in Monte Carlo you have to visit the casino, right? We had to go in of course. Put in 10 Euro and walked out with 64 Euro. Because of this run of luck the prior two days, we tried thrice... This time we lost our 10 Euros. No more visits to the casinos this trip.

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We have learned to schedule the big city trips ahead of time. Yesterday we were to arrive in Paris via the fast train. The trip was going to take us about 7 or 8 hours from Interlaken, Switzerland. We had been doing well with all our train trips and figured everything would be fine. Wrong. It was Sunday and everyone who was on a quick weekend get away wanted to get back home to Paris before Monday. 12 hrs and 5 trains worth of 2nd class later we arrived to our destination.

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Switzerland! Wonderful place. We should have booked more time here. The Swiss are perfectly organized in everyway, and make sure you are comfortable with your travels. We had the train ride of our lives through the Swiss Alps. Magnificent beauty around every corner. We happened to be on the best part of this trip during sunset. The train was very empty compared to others we had been on with maps of exactly where you were at every stop. I have a few photos on my other camera that isnt working at this internet site. I will post them, but they can't do what we saw justice I dont think.

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It has been really hot the last few days and this internet station is killing me. Everyone in here stinks worse than I do and the fan is only blowing hot air all over the place. No wonder I am not keeping this blog site more updated.

We have a lay over in Los Angeles on Wed the 28th. Chad Flynn and Mindy Knox have been nice enough to put us up for the night at their place, then off to Australia.

Peace from Paris!