Jackie and I just got back from our (second) Honeymoon. We had a blast and feel really lucky to have had such a great experience. Between London, Portugal, the Azores, and France we have around 600 pictures so we going to try and get a good travelogue up in the next few days. I thought I would start with an overall introduction here and then put a few more pictures and stories in subsequent posts.
We flew out of Salt Lake airport at 1:00 on the August 19th (Happy Birthday Mom) and landed in Dallas a few hours later. We sat around the airport and then flew to London from there. We had 8 hours until our next flight so we decided to make the most of it.
We walked around a park, ate some lunch, checked out Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, and then Westminster Abbey. We didn't sleep much on the red eye from Dallas so we felt pretty exhausted walking around all over London.
We made it back to the airport and got on a plane to Lisbon. Thanks to my Dad, he got us a room at the Marriott there and we made it there around 11:00 pm on August 20th. It felt nice to take a shower and then sleep on a bed. Unfortunately, we didn't sleep much because we had another flight to catch at 6:30 am. I don't know what I was thinking on that one, should have booked the afternoon flight in Heinz sight. We got about 4 hours of sleep until we had to leave. We got to the airport and boarded to plane only to sit there for about 3 hours, switch planes and sit for about another hour until we finally left around 11:00 am. After a two hour flight, we had finally made it to the Azores. We left our house in Provo at 10:00 am on the 19th and finally got to our destination at noon on the 21st. We got to our hotel and took one of those awesome 5 hour afternoon naps. We then spent the next 5 days wandering around the Island.
Partly cloudy with mostly sun everyday. Highs of 78 and lows around 60. Just beautiful
After the Azores we flew back to Lisbon to go spend some time in the city of Coimbra, where Jackie served almost half of her mission. Coimbra is home of one of the oldest Universities in the world, permanently residing in Coimbra since the mid 1500's.
We then drove back to Lisbon and hung out around there for a night. The statue "Cristo Rei" is in the background as well as the imitation Golden Gate Bridge.
From Lisbon we flew to Madrid, 3 hour layover, and then on to Paris. We had 20 hours to kill so we got a hotel room and spent almost all of our time running the streets, trying to take in everything that we could. It was awesome.
6 comments:
Of course I am so jealous!!!!!!! How fun! I especially like Jackie's out of control hair in one of those pictures! Sorry Jack, Lindsey Loves you, but it was cute!
Sounds like a great trip in spite of the flimsy excuse you used for taking it. We are glad you had a good time but are glad our traveling days are essentially over. See you later this week at LOTOJA.
Welcome home. Now get to work!! Dinner tomorrow at Cafe Rio? See you then!
I am looking forward to seeing more photos!
What a great experience you two had and thanks for sharing. I look forward to hearing more stories this weekend!
I'm so jealous! Looks like you had a great time though. Adam and I are thinking of heading to Spain in May...I'll remember terminal 2 if flying British Airways!
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