Genéve!!

The Escalade run in Genéve! L'Escalade is a festival that is held every year in Genéve celebrating the Swiss victory of a surprised attack that the French made in 1602 to conquer the city.

 The costumes were creative and some were quite funny x.x

The first snow fall we walked through in Europe :)

 Carouge!

A beautiful view of the Rhone and mountains surrounding Genéve!

 The Old Town of Genéve

St. Pierre Cathedral! Beautiful!

Taken of the archeoligical site underneath St. Pierre Cathdral (Chloe I think you would have loved this ;)

The Reformation Wall

The soup container that saved Genéve from the French.

Lake Genéve

We woke up one morning and everything was covered in snow :)))

I went to a sauna with Paula located on Lake Genéve. Thanks Xaviar for treating us :D! There was a Finnish sauna, a Turkish sauna and another one. They were very hot and quite relaxing especially after being in the cold for as long as we were. Definitely a nice change.

After sitting for a while in the sauna we took a dip in Lake Genéve. The water was just above freezing and after stepping in the water for one second your feet were already numb. Now that was COLD!

The beautiful scenery as seen from the sauna :)

Views walking around Genéve!

Here is Paula leading me along a beautiful path that follows the River Rhone. We had such a great time!

Here is the intersection of the River Rhone(left) and Arve (right). Beautiful :DD

Olive Picking in Sona

Here is a view of Mont Blanc from the air on our flight from London to Milan. We have come full circle :)

Olive harvesting with Flavio and Carlos.

Here are two goat kids that are maybe one day old.

So tiny and cute!!

Collecting the olives after picking them off of our second tree of the day.

This is only from one tree...

Arranging the olives before they get pressed.

Hot wine is much tastier and gives you more energy than Red Bull. Thanks for introducing us to this Flavio :)

London

Arriving in London from Dublin

Freezing outside of our hostel

Our daily walk to the DLR

We saw this poster in the Underground

We went through this and Ben looked at me and said Space Mountain. Totally, right?!

The London Eye. We did not go on it because we both have been but if you look lower you can see Big Ben.

Here is a German Christmas market that we stumbled upon. Sonja we were thinking of you!!

Big Ben and well not so big Ben ;)

Westminster Abbey

Trafalgar Square

China Town

The Tower of London

Tower Bridge

A German fair that we stubled upon in Hyde Park

Mom this one is for you :D

Buckingham Palace

Rush hour in the Underground... Crazy!