Thursday, September 30, 2010

June & July

So one of the first things in June was Zac's golf tournament in Las Vegas. He has been going for the last 3 or 4 years with his friend Josh. They get to play on some really nice courses for a really good price, and a high end item on a good deal and golf are two things that Zac just can't pass up. They even played a course called Wolf Creek, which is a really nice golf course that is even played on the PGA tour. So of course this golf course was on Tiger Woods Golf game for Wii, which of course Zac own, so naturally he practiced on Wii before he went out. I'm not sure if it helped at all, but lets just say that it did. They didn't win this year, but they still had fun, and of course there is always next year. The next big thing was our trip to Europe. We had a great time on this trip, but I have actually been avoiding blogging on this trip because I didn't know where to start. We went to Ireland, Scotland, and England, and the trip was 14 days long. I wanted to post pictures but there are so many! There were 8 people on this trip, all taking pictures; however, the main perpetrators of course would be my mom, my sister, and of course me. The 3 of us alone each took at least 500 pictures a day, so do the math (500 x 3 x 14) and what do you get? 21,000 pictures! So I say again where do I start? Plus even if I post one picture a day that's still 14 pictures and I would inevitably get comments on how long my post was. Not to mention how I pick 1 picture from 1,500. The idea was daunting, so I avoided it. I am making photo album pages of the whole trip, but it will likely fill up 3 photo albums, so if you want to see the whole trip you will just have to wait to see the photo albums. I took a break to do scrapbook pages of Gabbie, and I did a few pages on the trip, so I will just share those, since they offer a very light overview of the trip and they highlight the cutest person on the trip. :)

This was a crazy little bassinet that they let us use on the cross-Atlantic flight. Of course Gabbie didn't like it much, so we had to hold her most of the way.
We started the trip by flying into Dublin, Ireland.
This was at the Blarney Castle, where you kiss the Blarney Stone for good luck.

This picture of Zac was at the Giant's Causeway, it is really famous for it's amazing scenic photos.
After about a week we took a ferry across to Scotland. I loved Scotland, and I definitely have to go back, because we only got to spend about a day and a half there, which was just not enough.
Zac and I both agree that Edinburgh was one of our favorite cities we have ever visited. It is beautiful, and well preserved, with a good mixture of history, and modern day. And it didn't hurt that we had beautiful weather, from what the locals told us, the day we were there was the most beautiful, sunny, warm day they had seen in 5 years! We want to go back again, even if it does rain on us next time!
After that we made the long drive down to London. Where again we were too short on time. We only had 1 and half days to see all of London. We managed to see the big famous things, but there was so much more we have to go back and see.

After London we visited Stonehenge, Stourhead gardens, and a short visit to Bath and Chester. I know this doesn't really do our trip justice but I just can't condense the trip for the purpose of a blog any better. It will just have to be shared with the scrapbooks when I get them finished!