A few more pictures....

Beomeosa Temple - Busan, South Korea

So it's our last day in England and we thought we'd post a couple last pictures before we head home. Nothing real fancy for these pics, just one of us with the Tower Bridge in the background and another looking from the Tower Bridge out over the Thames river. You'll see the HMS Belfast anchored in the river. It was a WWII battleship but is now a floating naval museum. Currently anchored next to it is a modern cruise ship....kinda puts things in perspective.






























It's been a fun trip but we're ready to get back home now. See you all soon!

4 little frogs went to Asia....

and couldn't find an internet connection. You would be extremely surprised how difficult it is to come by internet access in this country! Well at last there shall be some pictures from the other side of that other pond.

Meiji-Jingu-Mae Temple in Harajuku - Tokyo, Japan

Ueno Station - Tokyo, Japan

The Port of Yokohama - Yokohama, Japan

Tokugawa Shogun Graveyard outside Ueno - Tokyo, Japan

About as close as you'll ever get to the Imperial Palace - Tokyo, Japan

More to come soon...

We're finally back from Paris and ready to post some pictures of the trip. We had a great time and wish we could have spent more time in Paris, but at the same time we're glad to be back in London.

After arriving we visited the Opera Garnier, most famous for being the setting where The Phantom of the Opera takes place. There was some rather interesting modern art out front, consisting of brightly colored cows engaged in very un-cowlike behaviour. (i.e. riding a bike)


















Of course in Paris you have to visit the eiffel tower. Here is a picture of us from the tower looking out over the river Seine.
















And here is a picture taken from the top of the tower. Unfortunately the city is a bit blurry in this picture, but in all fairness to our photographer, we were quite high up.
















And here's a pic of us in front of the tower later at night when the tower was lit. We had to wait pretty late for this picture, as Paris is pretty far north and this time of year it doesn't get completely dark until after 10:00 PM!
















The next day we took a boat tour along the rive Seine. Here's a pretty picture looking out the boat window to the shore.
















We also visited the Palace at Versaille. The gardens there were our favorite part of the trip to Paris. Here is a nice picture of us overlooking the fruit trees. Notice how they're all in large crates and not planted in the ground. That's so they can be taken inside during the winter as the citrus trees would freeze in the french winters.
















Here is us in front of one of the most famous fountains in the gardens. The humans claim that it depicts the people of a town being punished by being turned into frogs by the god Jupiter for persecuting a woman who had gained his favor. We frogs know that in reality the people were being rewarded for driving out the evil woman who was planning to betray Jupiter.
















And finally, here are a couple pictures from the Arc De Triomphe.

















Much more exciting though was the fair maiden we met at the top of the Arc, shown here kissing a very lucky frog. Sadly, he didn't turn into a prince but maybe next time.

England day 1

We finally got access to the internet here in England, so here's some pics from our first couple days.

Getting ready to leave...all packed up and on our way to the airport.

After getting settled in, we went for a walk in Kensington Park as it is right across the street. Here is a pic of us at Round Pond. We maintained a safe distance from the fearsome frog-eating swans though.

It rained for most of our walk through the park, so after our long journey we decided to call it a day and get some rest. The next we decided to just get on a bus and ride it for a couple hours to see the city. This pic isn't so great, but the flat pictured gives you an idea of what 50% of London is like. Flats like this packed 4 or 5 stories high everywhere with no gaps between the houses.
Here's a pic of another bus as we passed by. The 2nd level of these buses is really great for seeing the city.

We mentioned that 50% of London is just flats back to back to back. Well most of the rest consists of little restaraunts and stores like this one. Each unique and all interesting. You can get almost any type of food you'd like here, and almost any type of shop is available nearby, unless for some reason you want a large American style discount store.

After our bus ride we stopped by Buckingham palace to see the changing of the guards. It was quite a spectical, but the thousands of tourists packing in to see it were almost as interesting as the ceremony itself. There were probably more people there speaking other languages than there were speaking English, and more different languages than we could count.

That's all for now, we're heading to Paris tomorrow but we'll try to post some pictures from there when we get back.