The Changing of the Guards

WOW! What a show we saw today. It was really cool because the guards came and marched around and then the bands started to play. It was really cool, it there were two different bands playing and it was like they were dueling. It was really fun, and we were able to walk around after. I got my picture taken with a different kind of guard one that was walking around letting people take pictures and stuff, and giving information about the guard. It was really fun. The dueling bands played two well known songs, but those will remain a secret for now, I did get most of it on video. The quality of the video may not be good but it was fun to record anyways. After that we got our tickets for the London eye and Madam tousauds, the wax museum, and in it I met many of the famous people of the world, including some serial killers, and I was almost beheaded by a guillotine. It was really cool. After that we freshened up some, and went to the London Eye, and then had some sushi for dinner, so good by the way, and then we rode around on a double decker bus for a bit, til we got to an underground "tube" system. It was a really good day today.
Drop me a line if you can, to whoever reads this, and let me know how things are going in your life. Miss everyone!
Love,
the World Travellers
AKA Megan and Mom

The Mother Land

Here we are in great britain! It has been so much fun these last few days. We got to see versailles and the louvre, and the champs de elysee and the arc de triumphe and we went up 284 steps, be pround of us, (Where I sang a french song I learned in high school). It was really fun, the mona lisa is really cool but a little over rated. It was worth it though. Versailles is amazing! I Loved it all! After that we took a plane to get to great britain because it was actually cheaper than the train, and after an hour plane ride and over 3 hours standing in line, collectively in france and then the UK we finally made it to our hotel. We took a little nap and we are off again to places unknown. Well actually we know where we are going but it sounds better that way. I love this place! I love the accents and the fact that I can read all the signs and that it is So cool. I have been pronouncing things in the mainland european way for so long its weird to pronounce them in an english manner now, which is very different. Well, off again.
Love you all,
the world travellers
AKA Megan and Mom

Its a small world after all

So,
did anyone else realize there is a Disneyland Paris? Mom remindedd me of this and we went yesterday to go and make sure the rumors were true, after waiting in line and seeing all the beloved characters we know and love, we walked through the gates, and found ourselves on MAINSTREET USA!!!!! How cool right, We looked at each other and mom exclaimed, `we`re home!' It was so much fun to walk around and go on all of the rides including, space misson 2, indiana jones and the temple of peril, big thunder mountain, tower of terror twice, and pirates of the carribean! We got home at midnight thouroughly exhausted but happy, everyone should be really proud of mom because she went on all the rides, even the really scary ones! I think she was braver than me, though we should have gotten the picture from the tower of terror ride, its a pretty good one. Mom has her eyes closed. Anyways just a short note today, I think we are getting some food and then going shopping for a little while.
Love you all,
the World Travellers
AKA Megan and Mom

Paris, the night train

Mom and I were so blessed to have caught that night train! We were so excited about it. We get onto the train and find we have a cabinmate already. He was about 25 6 foot 5 and his name was charles. He was really nice and we chated for awhile, honestly it was really nice to have him be on the train with us already because just as we were all dozing off to sleep the train stopped to let on other passengers and two men made thier way into our cabin, they were rather loud. I agree with mom when she said that it was a good thing charles was there because we talked to him already and his presence was comforting with these two strangers. Anyways our trip was smooth after that. Mom slept well she woke up only once to my 5 or 6 times. I dont know why, but I was a little restless. I guess I was nervous about our safety still. We woke up coming into paris, said good-bye to charles, and wished him well with his ex-girlfriend adventures and things, and walked off the train all in all, it was a really good experiance. Very educational, and I guess it was pretty fun. Well thats all for now, I will write again soon!
Love,
The World Travellers
AKA Mom and Megan

Greetings from Paris

So we had such and adventure getting here! We left Venice which was sad but nessecary in order to continue our travels. We got to Milan and really enjoyed the Train station! We didn't have time to see anything though sadly enough. Next was the leg from Milan to Nice. This one was really long and we were excited about it but not excited for the length. We got to genova to find that our train was 40 minutes late. Now normally this wouldn't be a big deal except our connecting train was scheduled to leave from Nice 50 min after the first entered. We were sweating bullets but prayed that it would all work out ok. We got to the stop right before Nice, monte carlo for any of those interested is a very pretty place, on the sea shore and we saw many different beautiful resorts all along the travel from Genova, the French Riviera is the right name for that stretch of land. We stood up and got ready to run because we literally had 2 min until the next train to paris would leave. We got off the train and saw everything in french, but I found the number of the platform we were to be on, and headed the wrong way, mom stopped me though...and we ran down the stairs to the other side, with all of our luggage, bruises 11-20 for megan, and came up on the other side to find... oh the suspense, that the connecting train had not even gotten there yet! oh man it was great, we got to relax for at least ten minutes and we didn't even care. Well time up, I will tell you about that train later!
Love,
World Travellers,
AKA Megan and Mom

One more update

OK, Mom reminded me that none of you know where we are now, we are in VENICE!!!!! How cool right!? We went all through rome and saw the collesium and a few churches and everything, then we went to the vatican city, which is NOT Roma, to anyone who is curious. and saw the sistine chapel twice. Then florence which is beauitful and hot, now we are in venice! It is so cool and the Island of murano is fun. We were in a venitian thunderstorm, sweet, it was fun to see the pigeons scatter.
Love to all!
World travellers
aka mom and megan

Rome addendum

So I just want to say that the bruise on my leg is huge, really, I should take a picture of this thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it has gotten bigger while I am sitting here writing this, and I forgot my farewell.
Love,
World Travellers
AKA Megan and Mom

Rome the adventure

Ok, We had just gotten to Rome and boy was that a frustrating day. We got in at about 9 or so, mom says 9 30 I say 9. We went to a taxi post to try and get to our hotel because it was so late and we didn't know how the metro or buses worked. The taxi cost 30-40 euros, so we went back into the train station because that was not going to fly. I was really mad and tired and sore, I have the bruises to prove my mood, literally...anyways I went to find a bus route or something so we could get down to our hotel, which we knew was on via christophoro columbo, but we weren't sure how far. I found a bus that took us down that road and we proceded to try and find that. On our way out to the bus stop is where my first bruise happened. We got outside and saw the bus pull up so we ran towards it to try and get on. In the process of doing so, my suitcase handle fell off, no I would actually describe it as bursting out of my suitcase with such force that the handle flew towards my body and my right leg, bruise #1 I wrestled with the suitcase for a second, #2; we kept on walking to get to the bus, which had promptly changed into another route #. We got on the bus, #3; a lady there told us that there were two via christoporo columbus but after we described where we were going she assured us we were on the right one. We rode the bus for a while feeling pretty good about it until the lady told us where our stop was. She was really nice and tried to get us off right in front of the hotel but the bus driver wouldn't stop so she showed us when to get off. Hopping off the bus #4, we found we were in the middle of nowhere, we passed a couple of stops and found no hotel called columbo. We got back onto another bus #'s 5 6 7 8, which all turned into one large bruise, were caused at that point. Anyways, so we rode this bus with three drag queens, who seemed very nice but I was not in the mood to speak to them, and I think mom might have had a coranary. We rode to a sub station stop where the bus driver told us to wait because the hotel was back the other way, and then promptly kicked off the man who had been sleeping and was, we found out after he woke up, drunk...fun. He yelled at the bus driver but got off, we think yelling explicatives, and told the bus to go. The bus driver stopped at what he thought was our hotel but was in fact the other one that the first girl told us to get off at. We assured him it was not our hotel and stayed on the bus. I was near to tears by this point but mom tried to reassure me, and when we got back to the train station we found the first bus driver and mom got him to take us to our hotel for less then he wanted to. We rode back along the same route as the bus, past the churches, past the first hotel we saw, past the sub station and another half a mile until we pulled up in front of our hotel.
So by now it was midnight, I was exhausted and so was mom, but we got there safe and sound.

ROME!!! (part 2)

So mom got here ok about three days ago, sorry about the delay but it has been an adventure, and we went to this lovely little hotel in sorrento. It is essentially right on the beach and we had our own private access, by elevator. It was so much fun, we swam for a little bit and then walked through sorrento to find dinner. Mom was such a trooper! Talk about being steadfast. I was so proud of her she went straight for at least 20 hours. Now dont anyone get mad at me, I tried to get her to slow down but she was determined to say the least.
Anyways so we saw pompeii and then began our arduous journey back to naples and onto rome. This part was tricky, we got to rome eventually but lets just put it this way. We were in the naples train station at 4 and we got reservations for a train leaving at 4:30, 2 hours later our train still hadn't come into the station. So as I began to freak out, mom level headed as ever got us onto the next train leaving the station. I was fully expecting to be thrown off, because I thought it was a train you needed reservations for (some dont require you to make one), but it turned out that we were on the slowest train to get to naples for which no reservation, and apparently no ticket because no one checked, was required. All of this was still ok except that my fortitude was shot, and I was so tired. Ok I need to eat breakfast and we need to get the vatican, hopefully get in, So I will finish later, stay close to your moniters folks its going to get way exciting! MOM says hi to everyone she knows and loves...and you can include me in that too. CIAO!
Love,
World travelers,
AKA Mom and Megan