Dance Camp Hip Hop Routine

This was after 1 hour of lesson....pretty good right?

Swim camp...that's me...jumping in crazy-like....Ahhhhhhhhhh!

Happy Hollow with Connor and Lucas

I went to Happy Hollow with Connor and Lucas.  I think it was Connor's first time on the Frog Hopper and also his first on the roller coaster....I think he was a little scared.  But so glad he came with me!!!  Thanks for riding with me!

Happy Hollow!

Mom took me to Happy Hollow this week and there were a couple of new things...

First off, the bridges that go from the new parking lot right to the entrance.  They are really cool bridges and much closer than from the other lot.

I'm finally tall enough to ride the roller coaster by myself, and I will ride that thing as many times as I possibly can.  It's super fun!

Here I am sitting with another boy who went without his Mom.  We had fun!

Love them escargot!

Mom made escargot.  Yum.  I ate this twice this week... Is that too much?

Perfect-sized doggie!

We went to a neighbors house for a barbecue, and along came this dog....perfect for me!  Just my size, don't you think?

Europe 2011. London. Bruges. Paris.

We did it!  London, Bruges, and Paris in 2 weeks.   I climbed 3 towers.  In all, 1,456 steps...and that's just going up.  We rode the Eurostar twice, Thalys train once.  Countless subway/tube/metro trains and numerous buses.  Rode a London black cab.  Went on 3 boat trips.  Did a bike ride.  Saw 4 windmills.  Ate lots of escargot (yes, really).  And enjoyed loads of frites.  Ate at least 10 scoops of ice cream, mostly strawberry.  And, saw the Mona Lisa.  Best. Trip. Ever.

See more other posts for more pictures and such.

Part 3 Paris.

So happy to have finally arrived in Paris.  But boy is it warm here.  And muggy.

The mailboxes for the apartment building.  It looks like a library, but those are mailboxes!  Genius!

Nice kitchen with a large fridge.

The living area. And Auntie Cc's bedroom....

The shower and sink, plus washer and dryer.  The toilet and another sink were near the front door.

B and Mommy's room.

Cameron and Dad's room.

In front of the doors at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Our apartment as viewed from the street.

Our street on the Ile St Louis, right around the corner from Berthillon ice cream...yum!

Awesome ferris wheel ride at the Jardin du Tuileries, near the Louvre.  Very excited to see the Eiffel Tower!  Nice view!

Okay, we are not on a roller coaster, but we had fun driving cars, then jumping on the trampolines, and fishing for ducks.  We won fighter jets!

Climbing the stairs of the Eiffel Tower.  We climbed 720 steps to the 2nd level, then took a nice elevator to the very top.  It's windy up here!

All smiles from the top.

Favorite part of the trip:  Subways and trains.

Actually, we took the funicular up to Sacre Coeur....took the stairs down though.

Cameron is reading about Quasimodo and the Notre Dame...

Brendan made up a song...

Go go Quasimodo

The hunchback of the Notre Da-ame....

(goes with the Power Rangers tune...)

At Gare de Lyon (to eat at Le Train Bleu) and can't help but get a pic with the TGV!

Behaving....

Yummy food and nice interior

We can see the Eiffel Tower

Mom shoots the "rockets" up and I can catch them!  Most of the time.

At Laduree for lunch.

Eiffel Tower at dusk.

Attempting to shoot the "rocket", but not big enough to pull the elastic...

It's super windy and cold up in the Tower of the Notre Dame today.

Climbing down (up is 380 steps, did that!)

Loved spinning on this thing at the playground at the back on the ND

Puppy carrier for me?

Get ready set!!! GO!!!

Wheeeee!

Whoooo!

Sailboats at Luxumbourg were fun.  But they sometimes got stuck and some guy put on waders to go get them.  Both of ours got stuck at some point.  Oops.  But it was pretty fun!

Tired from a long day, but close to home.

Night at the Notre Dame.  Great street performers.  Loved the guys that did the fire sticks.

B loves his lollipops.

Back in London for one night.

Now homeward with our new Virgin Atlantic bags.  Filled with activity books and stickers.

Part 2 Bruges

Climbed the Belfry in Bruges.  366 steps to the top and we did great.  And we also had to go down.  No trouble for me.

Railcity Bruges.  A cafe/bar with minimal food and lots of model trains.  They've got a crazy set up.  

It got dark in the cafe as the trains rode on into the night....ooooohhh!

Napping together with brother.  So so so tired.

I'm riding in the back of Mom's bike and Cameron is trying to follow.  Pretty crazy riding through the middle of town, but we did it!

See what I'm doing up there?  Ha ha!

Taking a break from riding.  Well, not me, the others.

This ladder thing is very steep, which is why we didn't go up any further.  We saw some really cool windmills on the bike ride following the canals.

I look huge.

Took one of just a couple family pictures using a little remote.  I think C is holding it in this shot.

Dad was trying to catch us in mid-air doing our jumps.  We were waiting for our yummy liege waffles.

We also had frites in the square....they were good.  Love the cute little houses.

Bye bye Bruges.  On an Intercity train to Brussels to catch the Thalys.

At Brussels Zuid waiting for our delayed Thalys train to Paris.

Enjoying sandwiches and yakult....with baby cat.