Eurrrrrrope

Over Spring Break my dad and I went on the EuroTrip with a school group. There were around 40 people altogether. Let me tell you.. we cover A TON in 8 days. It was an incredible experience and I had a blast. It was pretty tiring, but totally worth it. And I'm pretty sure my dad was overjoyed also. 4 days in France. 4 days in Spain. There's just too much info on everything we did and saw to type... so sorry if this isn't action packed..

We left OH at 3 a.m. ish and got to Europe the next morning (France time) at 8 a.m. It was somewhere around 20 hours of traveling. FANtastic.

We had an hour and a half to spend in the Louvre. The whole time I was searching for the painting which my brother, Kris, wanted me to find. :)

This is just one of the many naked women (statues and paintings) that my dad took a picture of...

This is the view from my room in the first hotel we stayed in (we stayed in 4). Can you see the Eiffel Tower?!?!!

My friend, Nicole, and me. Sorry it's sideways.. :(

The padre and me.

At night..

One was with the flash and one wasn't.

Somewhere down there is the MOULIN ROUGE!!! I never could find it though :(

Our French teacher, Madame C. (pronounced "say"), me, and Nicole in front of a walled city!!

On the luxurious bus.

This is a good amount of the group.. but not everyone :0

And here are some French boys we met ;D

No worries... he offered me a cigarette (in French, no less)

but I said "No. Merci."

:)

Allie, Brittany, and Cathie on a really old bridge.

If you haven't noticed... I don't know the names to any place or thing we visited.

Nicole and her mom.

French restaurant, baby!!

Our first visit to the Mediterranean!!!

I didn't have a swimsuit and my shorts were packed.... jumped in with my jeans and skank top...

could NOT resist!!

That man behind Allie wasn't with us.... he just decided to pop in the picture!! It was hilarious. She had no idea until he said something real quick before he kept on walking.

One of our hotels in Spain had a pool... I went a little crazy.

I was just the entertainer for about an hour...

Posing on the beach!!

L to R: Nicole, Casey, Kyle, Brittany, Kery, and... my dad.

It was actually your birthday that day!!!

:)

Again... couldn't resist the Mediterranean... but holy goodness did it have PSYCHO waves.

Not joking... I almost drowned.. pretty frightening.

In one of the hotels we had a top and bottom floor!! Here's the spiral staircase. Pretty sweet.

Our delayed layover in NY waiting to go home. This was even more traveling than the trip there.

The Best for Last...

We went to a Flamenco dancing show...

It was incredible!! The dancing was awesome. The performers must have changed outfits over 8 times!

And... they pulled my DAD on STAGE!!!!

He did an amazing job, and he was such a good sport.

I only wish we had gotten a video of it!!

So, after my trip I decided that

Europeans are CRAZY.

The following are evidences of this conclusion.

A FLOATING mall in Barcelona.

Who would spend that much time on this?

"Come on kids, let's go see some Gladiators tear eachother apart!!"

An unfinished bridge.

Something very painful to land on.

They LOVE their artwork... everywhere.

Temples and cathedrals everywhere you look. None even as close to the same as another.

How would you like to clean that one?

No words.

This was on the Arc de Triumph.

There!! I knew a name!

The biggest name in art, "Mona Lisa"

and yet... it's sooo dinky! And you have to stay about twenty feet away from it.

Not gonna lie, it was a little bit disappointing.

They are insane drivers!! I couldn't do it. No way. We never saw an accident, which was good.

Even their parking shows the complexity of it.

See the tallest building in this picture? It's a temple (not LDS..). It's ginormous!! And ridiculously ornate!! There are seriously not enough words to describe it.

I had a huge problem with this though. It's on the "death and resurrection" side of the temple.

It's Christ. Looking down. No face. Naked. Skin and bones. And... 

the cross is horizontal to the ground.

Seriously, it's disgusting.

But.. hey.. "it's art!"

Could I interest you in a smart car?

Mcdonald's EVERYWHERE!! *gAg*

A bridge. A crazy bridge.

But honestly... I'm only partly kidding. Europe (at least what I saw of it) is beautiful, and everywhere you go is something full of history and art.

To prove that I really did enjoy my time I've compiled some pictures supporting the fact that Europe KICKS BOOTAY!

Cute boys... everywhere!! :)

A protest. A high school protest!

The kids actually care about and have an opinion of what's going on in their country!

Dressing rooms!! I wish ours were like that :(

Eccentric cars on every corner.

Take-your-breath-away views.

From the Eiffel Tower.

Spectacular scenery.

Color all over the place!

Irony.

Usually people think graffiti is bad.. but hey...

"Je t'aime"

(  "I love you" )

 This is going to be my honey moon spot :)

Collioure, France.

More beautiful scenery.

FoooooooD

(Don't worry... I didn't drink the 'the')

They gave us eclairs about 3 different times for dessert.

We went to a different restaurant every night.

GILATOOOOOO!!!

American ice cream sucks.

See what I mean?

At the market.

Blue cheese pizza :D

And of course.. crepes!

They even know how to do breakfast beautifully.

Chocolate in the croissants.

Sorry if that was a lot of pictures to look at. My dad and I had over 900 altogether, so I think I did a fairly good job at narrowing them down. Hope you somewhat enjoyed!

Happy Happy Birthday Sis Sopt!!!

Oh, Ciera. I hope you have a fantastical birthday!! I'm not there right now, but don't worry... we're going to boogey down to theEXTREME when I get home!! Count on it, woman!

Did you think I was really going to let your BIRTHDAY pass without finding some way of getting to you!?!?

Cuz if so... we need to hang out more, so you understand how I do ;)

I <3 you Oh sO MucH!!!

I'll see you soon!

Megan's Weekend

Megan O., Nicole B., and I (Jenna) have this tradition of Birthday Weekends, sometimes we have them for other special occasions (going away and such). Whenever one of us has a birthday the other two plan a secret weekend filled with fun. The Birthday Girl doesn't know anything. She just knows the dates and what to pack. This time was Megan's turn. Nicole and I have both had two weekends, and Megan has not had a single one! It was her eighteenth, so needless to say... we went all out!

Ok. So. Thursday, April 13th, was the kick-off to our glorious weekend, starting off with a simple sleep-over. Then,

Friday:

9 a.m. Commissary run for lunch (for later) and snacks

9:45 DONUT HOUSE of course

10 Hit the road for the secret destination

12 pm SEATTLE! Arrive at THE RAMADA INN, check-in, park, get settled

12:30 Head out

1 PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER

3:30 Orance Julius for snack

4:15 IMAX- "The Spiderwick Chronicles" (Pretty cool movie, not the greatest, but cool)

7 CHEESECAKE FACTORY!!

9 In for the night: games, food, talking, etc.

Saturday:

10:30 Check-out & hit the road for our next destination

11:30 POINT DEFIANCE ZOO

1:30 Head out again.. A&W stop to quench our thirst

3 BELLEVUE SQUARE MALL

PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT!!

5:30 RED ROBIN

7 Head home

We were going to spend the night again, but we were all pretty tired and had church the next morning.

Funny stories:

1. About 10 minutes before we got to the zoo we had Megan put a blanket on her head, so she wouldn't see where we were headed. Well, I was going 45 mph-ish down this road ( I wasn't speeding!! too much) and about 3 seconds before it happened.. I saw the speed hump. I yelled when I saw it.. a warning I guess you'd call it. We launched a little bit (please don't tell my dad). The girl with the blanket over her head in the back seat... well... you can imagine.

2. We have "birthday gear" (hat, sash, necklace, pin, tiara), but Megan was only required to wear the hat that weekend... the WHOLE weekend. She was really good about it. She even started keeping track of how many "Happy Brithday"s she got. 28

3. Before seeing "The Spiderwick Chronicles" Megan asked what it was about. eI explained it something like this: "It's about this spider who travels all around the universe with the wick of a candle. He lights it and it takes him where he wants to go." There were a few more details, but I can't remember all of them. Anywho.. she completely believed me :)

4. Megan couldn't figure out what mall we were in until we had been there for about 1.5 hours.

5. I lost track of how many candles Megan blew out and how many times people sang and said "Happy Birthday" to her, including her actual bday (Feb 7).

The picture aren't really in order, and these aren't even a fourth of all the ones we took. :)

The Birthday Girl!!

Obviously, she's crazy... and loves donuts wayy too much.

The Chauffeur.

The Hunt:

How to keep cool.

A good place to hide. Yes, they had a hole in the middle of the mall.

Something you can't see.

Capture your reflection in an unexpected place... almost

Your picture with someone in uniform.
A contradiction (they all say "#1 fan")
Something that makes you feel better.
A good place to take a nap
Holiday decorations

Something chocolate & pb

Naughty statue

HOOKER BOOOOOTS!!

President,

Stamp Camp?

:)

The Hotel

Megan did pretty good not being on the phone the whole time (this pic was a rare occurance).



FOOD!


And no, she is not posing whatsoever. She was truly drinking like this.

Only the best.

Lots and lots of pit stops.

We ate A LOT that weekend.

PSC


The most boring game on the face of the earth..

Me.. dominating at life-size checkers.

Hugle olives... jk. 3D tic-tac-toe. Ridiculously hard. Nicole kicked butt.

The Zoo!

Don't we fit in well?

Blanket-head/Birthday Girl.

Yeah.. very freaky.. he looked straight at Nicole (the Photographer).


It was AWESOME!

BEST SONG EVER!

Go ahead... sing along!

The Mormon Rap

Hey brothers and sisters,

Listen to me,

I'm talking to you religiously,

My Mormon Rap will make you see,

That I'm as funky as Donny and Marie.

When I go to church,

I'm in a good mood,

Cause they all treat me

Like a righteous dude.

When I watch T.V.,

I feel inspired,

'Cause I listen to the

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

I'm a fine young man,

I'm living clean,

Don't smoke, don't drink,

If you know what I mean.

I don't touch Soda Pop if

It has caffeine,

You might say I'm

a good little Sunbeam.

I didn't even date,

Until I turned 16,

I don't even know

The meaning of the word obscene.

Flipp'n, fetch'n, scruddle-dee-me,

Well jimminy cricket, and fiddledy-dee!

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Now Brigham Young,

He's my main man,

'Cause he brought the

Pioneers to the promised land.

Brother Brigham might be related to me,

I'll check it out when I do my genealogy.

He didn't want to settle just anywhere,

That's why we've got a place called Temple Square

I wish I could've seen old Brigham's face

When he said "Yeah baby, this here's the place!"

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

I met a Mormon girl just yesterday,

Who had a real sweet spirit,

In her own choice way.

I said, "Hey, I'm on my way to the Dairy Queen,

Would you like to join me for a bowl of ice cream?"

She said, "How special, certainly,

But you're gonna have

to wait 'til after three,

I've gotta give a lesson and a recipe,

To my Relief Society"

I was thinking of another nice place to go,

So I took my baby to the wild road show,

Refreshments look real good to me,

Red punch, white cookies, and mint candy

Then I took her home,

Nice place she had,

That's where I met her mom and dad,

I said, "How do ya do?" and, "I'm pleased to meet ya"

Then, the door bell rang, was the Home Teachers

I looked at my baby and she said with a smile,

"We might be here for a little while"

I said, "Come on girl, we better ride,

Cause we're gonna be late for the fireside!"

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

My bishop asked if we're going steady,

And we said, "No sir, cause we're not ready,

We've got some important things to do,

Like graduate from BYU --

And sometime later on in the fall,

I'm gonna receive my mission call!

Don't you worry, I'll be flyin'

Right back home to the land of Zion!"

Put Salt Lake City on the map,

When we all do the Mormon Rap!

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

Mormon, Mormon Rap,

Do the Mormon Rap

"Hey Mom, what are we having for dinner?

Green Jello Salad with Shredded Carrots?

mmm MY FAVORITE!!"

"Come on all you kids get in the Station Wagon,

We're gonna be late for cub scouts!"