Here's the hunchback's home in Paris.


Musee D'Orsay. An old train station that was converted into a museum.


The pyramid at the Louvre.


Ms. Mona Lisa


Some weird plant people


The Pantheon; a giant crypt.


Arc de Triomphe


The 487 steps up to the top of the Arc de Triomphe.


The view


The Eiffel Tower


The McDonald's where we hung out for 2 hours before we left Paris. They had hamburgers in the shape of stars.


Venetian canal


San Marco Piazza in Venice with the campanile and San Marco Basilica


Our gondola. We kept turning down offers and they kept sending somebody else with a lower offer. This guy was the big winner.


View from the water


San Marco Piazza at night. This was one of my favorite parts of the trip. The plaza gets flooded something like 280 days a year. You can see the
lights reflecting off the water. And if you look closely, there are two guys standing in a lone island of dry land. There were four bands along the
edges of the piazza playing classical music for onlookers. There were tables where you could sit, but we just migrated from band to band.


Florence's Duomo


The campanile next to the Duomo


Florence from up top


Piazza San Giovanni


A replica of The Rape and in the background, you can see some guy beating down a centaur. Florence's Piazza Della Signoria had a bunch
of replica statues.


Perseus holding Medusa's severed head.


Funny fountain


The Leaning Tower


It's really leaning quite a lot.


The colosseum


The colosseum gutted


Trevi Fountain


Michelle walked with her arms out like this for like half a mile. Italian police stared and laughed. She's weird.


Walking into Vatican City. St. Peter's Basilica in the background.


Roman police were out in full force because right when we got there, President Bush and his cavalcade of cars drove into Vatican City
for their appointment with the Pope.


San Pietro Basilica and the obelisk that Dan Brown suggests was placed by an Illiminatus.


So many people have come and rubbed the foot of St. Peter's statue that the stone has worn away, and this is what's left.


Capella Sistina


Final Judgement in the Sistine Chapel


Romans love their fountains.


Sorrento, our first view of the Italian Riviera. The sky looked like a painting.


An authentic replica of a body preserved in the Vesuvius catashtrophe at Pompeii.


Sunset from the Riomaggiore hillside in Cinque Terre right before we were shot by a BB gun.


Manarola, the 2nd town of Cinque Terre (5 towns). We hiked at least 1.5 miles straight up the hill from Manarola. Then we lost the trail
and walked 4.5 miles along the winding road back down to Vernazza, the 4th town.


Corniglia, the 3rd town, and Monterosso, the 5th town, in the distance.


A poster in Nice. "The hottest people drink free" I guess there'll be a lot of people wearing sweaters and parkas.


Barcelona. Home of Gaudi's unusual architecture. This is Casa Battlo where the balconies are skulls and the roof has the shape of
St. George's dragon.


Casa Mila


Temple Sagrada Familia. Gaudi envisioned this temple, which began construction in 1882. Although he died in 1926, construction continued.
It's speculated that it may never be finished. If it's completed it will stand over 500 feet tall.


The existing towers are over 300 feet tall.


It looks like it's melting.


Parc Guell has the longest park bench in the world. It is adorned with broken ceramics, as is much of Gaudi's work. He would find
broken ceramics and use them to decorate...everything.


Seriously, he didn't break them himself. He would just find them.


It looks like the chiquita banana girl.


A tile iguana fountain


We happened upon a small market in Barcelona, and while I waited for the girls to shop, I found these cool chairs. They're two inflated squares
that are connected at a corner so air can pass between the two seats. So if there's one person sitting on one square and somebody jumps
onto the other square, the first person pops up into the air. Great fun was had by all.


Cascada in Barcelona's Parc de la Ciutadella.


Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (A national museum displaying Catalonian art) Three days a week, they turn on the fountains and have a
light show. But we missed it.


England's Houses of Parliament viewed from the London Eye, a 160 foot diameter ferris wheel that takes 30 minutes to revolve.


Big Ben


The Rosetta Stone. This stone allowed scholars to decipher ancient hieroglyphics. The stone has three different languages written on it.
An egyptian king wanted everybody who passed into his city to know that he was the king. So he had towers created at the entrance
to the city that told of his reign. The top is ancient, 3000 year old, egyptian writing; the middle is current egyptian, at the time;
the bottom is greek. Scholars could read the middle and bottom parts and realized they were same, except different languages. The leap
that allowed them to decipher the hieroglyphs were circled words/pictures. They realized those were the names of kings. From that, they
deduced that the pictures were used both phonetically and as visual descriptions. Smart people.


We went to see a play at the Royal National Theatre. But while we waited, there were these people outside styling hair. They took volunteers
out of the audience and made their hair look crazy. They dyed it, made it stick up, put random things in their hair, and even dyed some people's
eyebrows. It was really cool. We would have done it, but we didn't have time. The play, Cyrano DeBergerac, was really cool, too.


Crazy!