{"id":1027,"date":"2010-08-20T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-09-12T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T23:25:01","slug":"european-vacation-cruise-recap-and-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation & Cruise – Recap and Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

So for those of you too tired, bored, afraid, or otherwise uninterested to look at all the pictures, in all their glory<\/a>, or read all the blog entries<\/a>, after the jump I’ll post some pictorial highlights from the trip.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There might be one or two more posts about the cruise, but it’s all starting to wrap up now.\u00c2\u00a0 Note: I haven’t gone through any of the pictures and deleted the stupid shots, finger-in-the-lens shots, or anything else boring.\u00c2\u00a0 You have been warned.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, where’s that pesky “more” button?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yeah, here it is.<\/p>\n

First, a quick and cute story.\u00c2\u00a0 On\u00c2\u00a0 one of the days in London, while Marla, Justin, and Aaron were on the Harry Potter tour, I took Ethan to the arcade.\u00c2\u00a0 He took Flat Stanley with him, for pictures, but accidentally left him on one of the games at the arcade.\u00c2\u00a0 After realizing he was lost, we rushed back from our hotel to the arcade, and asked one of the security guards about seeing a paper figure.\u00c2\u00a0 The guard feigned, saying “Oh, I think it would have been lost…. but follow me…” and took us to a corner of the arcade where there was a table, where Flat Stanley was waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 Ethan got Flat Stanley out of jail, and I took a picture of Ethan, Flat Stanley, and the very helpful “jailer”…<\/p>\n

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At about the same time, Justin was enjoying his Harry Potter tour:<\/p>\n

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While Aaron was trying to get to Platform 9 3\/4:<\/p>\n

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At one of our ports, there was a seal statue on the dock, so of course… snapped a few pics…<\/p>\n

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Some kids we found hanging out at the cannon inside the Tower of London:<\/p>\n

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Here’s Chirk Castle in Wales, first the moat:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And the castle itself:<\/p>\n

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Near Chirk Castle, we took a steam train ride, here’s a shot of the Engineer:<\/p>\n

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Did I mention that these were in no particular order?\u00c2\u00a0 No?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, in keeping that theme, here are some pics from our “Renewal of Vows” ceremony:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the view of London from our hotel room:<\/p>\n

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And, again, totally randomly, the ship as we approached it in harbor at Southampton:<\/p>\n

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And the kids at the Sherlock Holmes museum:<\/p>\n

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And one more at Chirk Castle, this was a Welsh warrior showing them how to wage war:<\/p>\n

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And then the last two are the kids in Scotland, Greenock I think:<\/p>\n

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So for those of you too tired, bored, afraid, or otherwise uninterested to look at all the pictures, in all their glory, or read all the blog entries, after the jump I’ll post some pictorial highlights from the trip.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There might be one or two more posts about the cruise, but it’s all starting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}