Thanksgiving

There have been several postings by other family members on the great time we had in Arizona for Thanksgiving. Even though it was a while ago, and a lot of others have posted some great photos, I realized that I had some photos that would still be fun to share.

The first ones are from the back yard playground and the neighborhood playground.
These next photos were at the Pima Air Museum
The photos were taken the day after Thanksgiving playing paintball. We really had a good time and no one got an eye put out. The closest was Sarah, who got shot on the top of her head with a yellow paintball. She did not want to leave that in her hair for the drive to back to Utah.

The 22 hour drive back to Missouri was pleasantly uneventful.

Trip to France

This blog entry on my November trip to France is very long overdue. Even though most of the time was spent at work, I did get a little time to do some sight seeing in Angouleme. There were some pretty cool old buildings that were between 200 and 600 years old. Most of the old buildings were churches. These were a few photos I took. The first one was taken early in the morning s it was getting light.

This was a hotel a long time ago.
Angouleme is more than 800 years old, so many of the old streets were built long before there were cars and are quite narrow. Even though this street was very narrow, it still had parallel parking with enough space for cars to barely get by.
My last night in France was in Paris. I ate dinner in the hotel by the airport. I ordered “apple pie” for desert. But the apple pie was not what traditional American apple pie. This is what it looked like. It tasted pretty good.
The next day my flight back to the states did not leave until noon, so I decided to get up early and take the train into the city and see the Eiffel Tower. This was taken shortly after it got light in the morning, as seen from the east of the tower looking west (sun to my back).
While at the Eiffel Tower, I found a geocache in a small hole in the wall on the far side of the Seine River just west of the tower. Close by was a old barge like boat that had house plants on the boat suggesting that someone lived on the boat. This is a photo of the boat with the Seine River and the Eiffel Tower in the background looking east into the sunrise through the clouds.
I made it back to the airport in time to catch my plane and fly to Salt Lake and see my family.