We returned!!

Good morning all from sunny Elkhorn, MB!  We have all returned safe and sound to the lovely soils of Canada!!  I think the trip was a huge success, we made all of our connecting flights with very little delay, a little bit of bus trouble in Wpg, then made it home by about 10 PMish last night.  I will try and get some more pictures posted today, so stay tuned.
Internet connectivity throughout Europe is not quite what we are used to so I apologize that we did not have more posts.  I guess if I wasn't so square I would have had an iPod or a Blackberry and then I could have done more posts.
Take care and thanks for following our journey!!

K T

Pictures

I am having trouble posting pictures because either are connections are bloody slow, or are not allowed to stick my card into the machine, will keep trying!!

Leaving Florence

Its 0710 and we are getting ready to head into breakfast.  We have to wait for another group to finish up.  We have about a 2.5 hr trip to Assissi, then a stop and sightsee, then off to Rome, another 2.5 hrs.  Weather is to be 18 and rainy in Rome so we will see.  We did a real nice walking tour of Florence yesterday, rainy periods, with sunny breaks.  Gloria Peasso met us in the center of the city, and her and her friends tagged along with us for awhile.  We had a great supper, pasta, french fries, some sort of meat, followed by ice cream.  The kids, Tom and I went out to a disco, so the kids were able to see soe of the locals perform, maybe Cdn kids are well behave.  Well say hi to all for us, we are off!!!!

Visiting the Louvre

WE RE IN THE LOUVRE, weather is great!!!!  We are off to Florence tonight, train departs at 1825, we should arrive in Florence tomorrow at 0715.
We re at the Mac Store in the LOUVRE, so we ll try and post more tomorrow.

Take care all

Post from Paris

Hey I got in here!!!!!!!!!!  Im using a french keyboard and a french browser so you can imagine how much trouble I am having!!!!  EVERYONE IS WELL? IM TRYING TO UPLOAD SOME PICS TO OUR FLICKR SITE? ITS A LITTLE SLOw though!  Krista i will pass the msg along about cliff, thanks.  Weather is not too bad we had a little rain in London, and a bit today;  We are off to Notre Dame after dinner, it is 1340 (1 30 PM) here right now, sun is shining all are good.  Our London hotel was bequtiful, saw the chqnging of the guards, tower of london, went to a play in the west end, Sister Act.  Chelsea says the drama drastics will do a musical next year :) 
We are heading up to Montmarte after Notre Dame, going to tour the catacombs of Paris tommorrow. 
Tom is being greqt with the kids, and so fqr no scrqps (not even the parents!!)  YOU can see the q and the a are in difft places on the keyboard so i apologize.
It looks like I can upload 1 more batch of pics, then I will go cqtch up with the group.
A BUNCH OF US HAD dinner in the latin quarter today.  Flamans for supper last night that i think all enjoyed.  WE HAD GYROS FOR DINNER (lamb) all seemed to enjoy.
Hank and Fred are out looking for a USA Today to try and find hockey scores.
So far MOST are making our timings not too bad!  We ve had a few we ve had to wait for once a

Flight Tracker

If you wish you can track our flight info from :  HERE

We will be flying:

Air Canada Flight # 283;
Air Canada Flight # 850;

Lufthansa Flight # 3853;
Air Canada Flight # 875;
Air Canada Flight # 1113

International Cell Phone

Hey all if you really need to get a hold of us while we're in Europe I have received a cell phone from EF.  You can call us at: 1-866-305-6462, then follow the prompts and enter the number:  447924255823 [This is the cell phone number] (it seems to work!).  As I understand it, it is a free call from North America, but we use up our minutes on the cell phone, so just in emergencies, please & thx!!

Weather Links for our stay.

Here are the links to our "4 main stays" while in Europe:

London

Paris

Florence

Rome

Airline & Hotel Info posted.

Hey all our "final" airline & hotel info can be found here:  Here it is  Check it out.  Of course things can always change!!!

K T

Flickr Page

Here is our Flickr page for us to post images at: HERE

EF Link

Here is the URL for students to log into their account: HERE