We try a new pastry shop each morning. I’ll take one of everything 🙂 After eating, Eli and I walked around the neighborhood while Dami and Addie went to a perfume shop. I’ve been wanting to visit Notre Dame but they give out reservations 2 hours in advance. So I’ve been refreshing my phone off…

This morning we hit the streets to find some breakfast. There’s a million bakeries in a five block radius and I’m determined to try them all. After eating we headed to the subway towards the Eiffel Tower, where we have tickets to walk up to the second floor. This subway car was really comfortable. I…

We’re taking a train to Paris this afternoon. Along the way we transferred at King’s Cross Station. At one end was Platform 9 3/4 with a large queue waiting to take pictures in front of it. We jumped on a Eurostar train for a quick 2.5hr ride to Paris. Before we knew it we had…

Eli and I decided to mix in with the locals for breakfast. He went with a classic beans on toast. 2 out of 5 stars. “Not completely unpleasant.” Of course I had to try the best selling breakfast cereal here: Weetabix. Ummmmm….imagine you scooped a handful of plain wheat flakes, crushed them to a fine…

We decided to start the day off riding a double-decker bus around London to see the sights. The busses are always circling so you can jump off anywhere you want to explore more. There are so many incredible buildings. I thought we lived in bridge-city, but our bus wove us back and forth over so…

First stop, Reykjavik! It wasn’t officially on our itinerary but we had the option of a 10-hour layover here (en route to London) so we took it. It’s daylight 24-hours a day right now in Iceland. And the time-change is taking its toll. When we arrived it was 6am local time, but bedtime in Oregon….