Day #23: Favorite Vacation

Ok. So I have to cheat a little on this post as well. I have two favorite vacations; one as a single lady and one as a married lady. One with a friend, one with a husband. One in Europe, one in the United States.

The first one: Europe. 2006. 7 countries. 16 days.

My friend Elyse and I decided to go on a "big girl" trip to Europe, just the two of us, for two weeks. Of course, we treated ourselves to a "tour" rather than back-packing it through; we weren't that adventurous!
We had a fabulous time: saw amazing sights, tried new foods (sort-of), endured a few trials, made lots of memories, and took a ton of pictures!

We started off in:

LONDON!!

I think those were the most crammed pack days full of sight-seeing and goofiness.

Next stop:

Brussels, Belgium

Ummm...there aren't too many pictures from this city. We weren't very impressed.

We followed this low-point up with:

 

Germany!

We stopped in Cologne, Heidleberg (pictured), and Munich (which we didn't care for and ate Subway!)

Then...onto one of our favorites of the trip!

Austria!

Must see: Innsbruck (below) and Salzburg

With a two day stop in Vienna (eh.)

Moving on to:

Italy! 

With stops in: Venice (oooo), Verona, and Milan (yuck!)

Now: Onto my absolute favorite (mentioned in the previous post):

Lucerne, Switzerland

I just couldn't get over the sights! It was breath-taking, surreal; I felt like I was dreaming the whole time. DEFINITELY returning one day!

Last Stop:

Paris, France

All I can say is: we hated it. Maybe we didn't give it a fair chance but, I think it's safe to say, neither one of us has any desire to return.

I did go a little crazy and actually tried snails though!

Ok...to wrap up this post:

Next trip: East Coast. 2009. 10 states. 10 days.

Here's just the highlights. Try to guess which ones were my fav.

D.C.

Mount Vernon, Virginia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

New York City, New York

Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding areas

By far my favorite was the Boston area, although we missed out on a lot because of a huge rainstorm. We will definitely be finding our way back there some day.

My least favorite: come on...you must know...

Phew! That was long. Thanks for hanging in there. Although there were lots of pictures, they don't even begin to tell the stories. Both trips were amazing, with amazing people.