Saturday, July 11, 2009

Janae and Janell in Europe







































Here we are in Europe. Janell is on a music trip with Utah Ambassadors of Music. I am a chaperon.

We flew on Delta and they had free Internet so I used my lap top and sent a few emails before my battery went low. In England we saw the usuals... Tower of London, British Museum, Victoria and Albert, etc. They had a concert at Embankment Park and had a outdoor packed crowd. Apparently this is the same core that went to Caleb's concert including a guy in red boxer shorts and mostly old English gentlemen. Passers by stopped and stayed for the concert. Some danced in the isles. One English Gentleman got out of his seat and parked himself right in front of me in the isle. He took out a black tape recorder in it's original box and was recording the concert. Then he got out his old vivitar camera from it's original box and took some pictures and went back to his place.

After the concert I spoke to him. He had a sheet of paper he had copied off from the Internet about Utah facts so he went over why do we have a trash bird for our state bird and do Mormon's believe in war? It was good.

We have taken Lauren's advice and bought Crepes everywhere they are found.....ummmmm

We took a ferry across the English Channel to Paris and went to the Louvre, Paris opera house(the site that inspired Phantom), a small village and took a boat ride down the seine river. Tomorrow we have another concert in a park. At the Louvre I stepped out of line and bought headset tours for Janell and her friends so we could zip around to the important stuff. It was perfect. Who knows if we will have Internet at our other destinations. We do London, Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Venice, Germany. I can't work the spell checker... sorry

1 comment:

Frances said...

Sounds like you guys are having a great time. Eat a banana and nutella crepe for me!