europe: london

we were lucky to be able to recently travel to europe for vacation. i was excited. we started in london, moved onto paris, and ended in barcelona.

we met up with this great group of forrests (mom, katie, aaron, & jon) in london where katie is currently living and working (lucky).

katie was a great tour guide and we had many adventures such as the changing of the guard at buckingham palace, an open top bus tour,

fish & chips at the tower of london,

a river cruise down the thames, the london eye,

the churchill museum & cabinet war rooms, hyde park, classic british phone booths,

delicious indian food, and of course big ben.

thanks to katie for letting us completely take over her fabulous flat with heated floors!

new orleans

for our get-out-of-boston-winter get away this year we traveled to new orleans. nola holds a special place in my heart so it was good to go back and be joined by our good friends the cannons.

highlights included a crusier bike tour around the city with a stop at st. roch's cemetery.

three sparadic parades & bead catching

two great jazz sets at preservation hall

an airboat swamp tour in the bayou where we saw quite a few gators

city park and the oaks

and of course the french quarter & way too much eating - especially beignets which we had 3 nights in a row from cafe du monde.