Beach Time

This last weekend, we took a quick trip to Carnon Plage with our friends. Gabriella and Liv had so much fun playing in the sand and water. I thought we'd never get them to leave the beach. 

The beach and water were perfect, the sand was so soft and the water was really shallow which was great for the girls to play. 

The apartment we rented had a great back yard with a place to bbq and relax, we all enjoyed the hammock until Gabriella peed in it. 

Carnon Port

Gabriella is going to miss Liv so much!!

On our way home we stopped in Uzes, the girls had a blast running around the town, it was a really beautiful city!

The Netherlands Part 2 and Brussels

We had a blast in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is a great city, this picture above is us playing on the I amsterdam sign.

We spent a morning out by the North Sea, although we picked the wrong day to go to the beach. It was raining all morning at the beach and the day before in Amsterdam it was hot and sunny.

These pictures are outside the peace palace in Den Haag.

We finished our trip with one more day in Brussels. 

Gabi giving daddy a kiss :)

Brussels really surprised me this time, I enjoyed it more than I expected. It is a great city that has a very unique feeling and of course I enjoyed the Belgian waffles. 

It was a great trip, this picture above is Gabriella playing in the Brussels airport. She was such a trooper this trip, she didn't complain at all the whole week!

The Netherlands Part 1

After almost a year of living in Europe, we finally made it to the Netherlands. (Which was supposed to be our first trip). We absolutely loved it, the country side and the canals were beautiful.

"Mom the door is open right here"

This was the de haar castle in urtecht. I would recommend anyone going to see this castle, it was by far one of my favorites in all of Europe.

Amsterdam was crazy busy the day we went, but we still had lots of fun. Gabriella insisted on riding with a horse. So here we are in the carriage with Otto (the horse) pulling us around town. It was a great tour and Gabriella had a blast, she thought it was great that a horse was driving.

Touching Otto, she was a little too scared to actually pet him!

After lunch, it started to get really hot, crazy Gabriella decided it was a good time for a swim. Too bad I didn't pack a bathing suit.

 She was obsessed with the water, we had to drag her out when it was time to go. Stay tuned we have lots more pictures coming!

Luxembourg

After Bruges and Ghent we headed south to Luxembourg. The castle above was in Marche Belgium. It was beautiful, but they wouldn't let us inside, so we just walked around the grounds! 

Gabriella loves lions, she spotted these before we did, and said "Daddy picture please". Lol, you can tell her mom and dad take a lot of pictures!

We stopped at a park for lunch on our way.

Crossing into Luxembourg

The hotel had an indoor pool, but it was freezing, so we ended up playing on the grass outside instead, but still fun!

Luxembourg was beautiful! The hillsides and bridges were so pretty, while we were there they were hosting a bike race.

 Luxembourg had the best park right downtown. It had this ship that was filled with tons of fun stuff. It also had water to play in and swings!

Gabriella could have spent the whole weekend playing at the park!

We don't have very many swings in Grenoble, so this was a real treat for Gabriella. She is so funny at the end she is say "No more pictures daddy, no more".