Les Chateaux de la Loire

Inside the National Museum of Natural History.

Chambord, an absolutly amazing gaint castle, it has 77 staircases, 426 rooms, and 282 fireplaces.

We took a nighttime walk to see Chateau de Chenonceau and its gardens all a lit.

Amboise, where Leonardo da Vinci wished to be buried, only a fifth of the original castle remains due to its systematic destruction.

The chapel where da Vinci bones now lie, the original church, a couple meters closer to the castle, was destroyed so his bones were moved into here.

This is his grave.

This is actually his house where he spent the last couple years of his life. In the gardens there were 3D models of da Vinci's plans.

This is inside a cave we visited where they grow mushrooms naturally. That's where the good restaurants buy their mushrooms from.

The castle Azay-Le-Rideau.

Villandry, renowned for its gardens. We didn't go inside the castle.

A overlook of part of the gardens.

And the castle Blois, built in four different styles of architecture.

i will be gone from this sunday for three days until wednesday, i am going camping by the chateau de la loire

More Paris

I don't quite remember what the name of this building was, it had a temporary garden in front and a exhibiton about the french marines in the inside.

This is Marine's dog, Ostine.

Monument of the Bastille, there in now an opera there you can see it in the background.

The National Museum of Natural History, totally amazing, and the Jardin des Plantes.

Le Chateau de Versailles from the back.

Paris some more

The Mona Lisa, need I say more?



The Saint Sulpice from the outside, it was partly under construction.

The Rose Line inside the Saint Sulpice Church.

The Pantheon where people such as Voltaire, Marie and Pierre Curie, Louis Braille were buried.

Le Chateau de Versailles.

The Eiffel Tower and me.

Le Musee d'Orsay. Here I saw a ton of famous painters work like, Monet, Manet, Degas...

Le Senat, the senate of France.

Paris

This is the Louvre, with the glass triangle, I just saw a ton of artwork, this place is seriously huge; and the Mona Lisa is small but totally amazing to see anyway.




This is the Notre Dame of Paris, it is amazing beautiful inside with all its stained glass windows.



This is the Opera, where operas take place...

This is the Church Magdelene, what striked me as interesting was the sign saying, be properly dressed because it was a catholic church, good thing I was not wearing a tank top today.

Germany

Close up on Sophia's lovely face here in Oma's house.

During our rain walk Sophia agreed to pose under an overhang. Sadly, the weather has turned cold and sometimes rainy.

Two shots of the nearby Klöster, I think in English it's a nunnery, now only used as a catholic church.

Graduation

Us all on the Purple People Bridge, and yes it is really called that. They used to let people climb up it for a fee, someone even got married on top of it.

We spent the day after graduation downtown, showing everyone the sights. Here we are in Eden Park overlooking the Ohio River.

Me in my lovely red gown. Girls wore red and guys wore black, our school colors.

Everyone who came to my graduation except Abby and Lars, he wouldn't let himself be photographed.

My graduating class is about 600 people, this picture depicts about half of them in Millet Hall where our graduation took place.