On our way to Europe!
Excited on the plane
Munich
mmmm...German sausage
Cheryl and I in the Hofbrauhaus
In Bavaria, Southern Germany
Outside of King Ludwig's first castle, Linderhof
Outside Linderhof
King Ludwig's largest castle, Neuschwanstein
Schlo§ Neuschwanstein
View from Neuschwanstein
Looking outside from Ludwig's bedroom
Back to Munich
The Glockenspiel in Marienplatz, Munich
Nuremburg, Germany
The Christmas Angel at Nuremberg's Christmas Market
Inside a Nuremberg church
Nuremberg, Germany
Skiing in St. Moritz, Switzerland
Christmas with the Gammeters (The family I stayed with while I was living in Switzerland)
Sledding in Switzerland
St. Moritz
Walter loves Sam Adams
Chilling the beer
A Gammeter tradition: Go up hill, make fire, eat meat
Mama and Papa Gammeter
Francesco balancing rocks
Success!
Back down the hill
Piz Nair - St. Moritz, Switzerland
Curling in St. Moritz
Fun with chocolate wrappers
Corina, Francesco, me
Zuoz, Switzerland
Martina and Urs, Gammeter's high school in Zuoz
View from the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz
Dessert at the Palace
The ice bar outside of the Crystal Hotel
Eating Raclette
Urs, Mama, and Papa sending us off to Italy
Inside the Duomo in Milan, Italy
PLEASE, NO TOURIST!
Duomo - Milan, Italy
On the roof of Il Duomo - Milan, Italy
On the roof of Il Duomo - Milan, Italy (That's Cheryl down there to give you an idea of how gigantic the Duomo is)
The oldest shopping mall in the world, Vittorio Emanuele on the Piazza Duomo
In Milan, most of the bars have free dinner appetizers if you buy drinks. We were all over that deal.
In Milan
Foggy on our way to Florence, Italy
Inside the Florence Duomo
Flooring in the Duomo in Florence, Italy
Duomo - Florence, Italy
Street market in Florence
Piazza della Signoria - Florence, Italy
One of the David copies in Piazza della Signoria - Florence, Italy
Ponte Vecchio - The only bridge in Florence not destroyed during WWII
The many shops on the Ponte Vecchio
Italian Gelato
Another copy of the David in Piazza Michelangelo
View from Piazza Michelangelo
Ponte Vecchio at night - Florence, Italy
The original David
Taking the night train to Paris
Notre Dame - Paris, France
Notre Dame in a puddle
Inside Notre Dame - Paris, France
Communion in Notre Dame - Paris, France
Ouside of Notre Dame
The back of Notre Dame
Notre Dame across the River Siene
Cheryl with the Siene, Notre Dame
Rich with the Siene, Notre Dame
Nice hair! (Inside the Hotel des Invalides)
Rich at the Arc de Triomphe
Arc de Triomphe - Paris, France
Looking down the Champs-Élysées
Eiffel Tower - Paris, France
Drinking Champagne on New Year's Eve at the Eiffel Tower
Happy New Year!
Eating at one of the omnipresent brasseries in Paris
Dessert
At the Louvre - Paris, France
Louvre - Paris, France
Outside the Louvre
French girl at the Tuileries - Paris
Tuileries - Paris
Cruise on the Siene
Eiffel Tower from the Siene
Moulin Rouge in Montmartre - Paris, France
Welcome to the Moulin Rouge!
Inside the Moulin Rouge
The can-can at the Moulin Rouge
Musée d'Orsay - Paris, France
Vincent van Gogh, self portrait - Musée d'Orsay
Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Musée d'Orsay
In the Musée d'Orsay
In the Musée d'Orsay - Sacré Cœur on the left
Eiffel Tower
Below the Eiffel Tower
On top of the Eiffel Tower
Crêpes!
One last shot of the Eiffel Tower before we go back to the US
