Until next time.....

The picture of the eel and the starfish are from the aquarium in Barcelona, Spain. The eel is why my mom was afraid to swim in the ocean, but she did! Destination..... Regina in about an hour. Just waiting at the Calgary airport for our final flight home. It's tomorrow morning in Europe time so I'm kind of tired. Thanks again for following the blog!!!!

Spain Wins! Heading home!

Spain won the World Cup football game! I was so happy and wore my Spain "Espana" football shirt. It was lots of fun. We bought horns to blow so we will be blowing them at home. We walked and walked and scootered all over Paris finishing our trip in Europe. Thank you for following the blog. It has been very fun. I am looking forward to going home. I miss my family, my friends and my pets. I also miss my bed and my room. It's raining in Paris this morning. Our first rainy day in a few weeks so maybe this is a good day to fly home. AU REVOIR! ADIOS! ADEUS! وداعا! AUF WIEDERSEHEN!

Good-bye in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and German.

Paris 2

These are pictures around Paris. The picture with my hair standing up, I was standing on a blower vent thing like Marilyn Monroe did. We went to the Moulon Rouge and we went to the top of the Eiffel Tower and watched the crazy traffic around the Arch de Triumph. At the top of the Eiffel Tower there was so many lights of Paris that we were looking over. It was really pretty!!! I really liked Momatre area and we will go back again today. We went to the Louvre and all liked that. The computer is running out so I have to end this. Will update again soon!!!

Paris!!!

Here we are in Paris! It's very strange that we could get the internet in our room in Morocco but not in Paris??? We can't even phone out from our hotel room in Paris. However the good thing is, everyone said it was going to be super expensive in Paris and so far it's no more expensive than anywhere else and it's way LESS expensive than Geneva. The Seine River through Paris is really beautiful. On one of the bridges there was a model doing a photo shoot with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The Eiffel Tower is enormous. Today we are planning to go up it. Frog legs and pancakes are huge here. Everyone seems to eat them. Except me and my mom and Donna. We don't eat the frog legs. We are off for a boat ride on the river. It is super duper HOT!!!

The beach!!

Hi, this is Jan! The blog part in quotations is the entry Erin started but she fell asleep mid-blog so I'll finish it off. The beach at Sitges today was beautiful and lot's of fun. People stroll the beach selling all sorts of things. Cold drinks and beer out of make-shift coolers, sarongs, clothes, sunglasses and even DVD's! It was a full on beach shopping spree! Erin was very excited to get her hair braided. We have mastered the subway system which is a great way to get around. We headed off on a late night adventure yesterday in search of the famous night show of the 'magic fountain' only to get there and find it drained and under renovations. :( Erin wanted to mention about Spain winning the world cup semi final tonight in football. Kaley's room is on the 9th floor with a balcony so we headed out there to watch fireworks around the city and listen to the all the excitement and activity. It's fun to be here for it! The photos of the statues are a couple of the many very cool live human statues you see along Las Ramblas Boulevard. Check out the guy without a chair???? We are off to Paris tomorrow for the tail-end of our holiday. Thanks again to everyone, for following the blog and for your comments. Erin checks it frequently and we all enjoy keeping it up.

"Kaley met us in Barcelona. She is staying in Scotland for the summer. Yesterday we went walking along Barcelona and the Mediterranean Sea. We accidentally went to a nudist beach. I did NOT get nude! Neither did Kaley or Donna or my mom. We swam and went to the Hard Rock Cafe for supper. Today we went down the coast to a town called Sitges and went to the beach there. It was soooo beautiful and very hot! I have bought a couple of bathing suits because when you shop for a bathing suit you buy the top and the bottoms separate so you can always mix and match them."

Barcelona

Here I am in Barcelona, Spain. We walked down the very crowded main Boulevard on our way to check out the Mediterranean Sea. There were some really cool sand castles on the beach and we saw a man making one. The water was warm but I was shocked at how people litter the beach. At night they clean it up!

We went on a bus that you hop on and hop off when you want to. We saw lots of famous buildings designed by the architect Gaudi. They were very fancy. My mom took a funny picture of this sign, Later we went to the aquarium. I loved it and I learned a lot about what lives in the Mediterranean sea. Donna and my mom are scared to swim in it now but I am excited. The one picture is of some really cool "Weed Seadragons".