Le Poissons...Le Poissons...he-he-he....hah-hah-hah

We went to Paris last weekend and it was fantastic! We ate lots of banana and nutella crepes, drank the worlds' best hot chocolate, and..o yeah, ate pig intestines! Mmmmmm... We walked along the same streets as Monet and Salvador Dali in Montmartre, bought tons of paintings, and went to 8 museums! There was so much to see, so we'll have to go back if we get the chance. Sadly we saw no mimes, and only one man wearing a beret...talk about a misconception! 

Our first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower

View from the Eiffel Tower

Sparkling!

The Louvre

Mona Lisa!

Venus de Milo, one of the most famous ancient Greek sculptures

Napoleon's Bed

Monet's water lilies at the Musee l'Orangerie de Tuileries

Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhone

Thinker by Rodin

Ryan thinking...

Centre Pompidou (modern museum) 

Painting by Kandinsky

Painting by Salvador Dali 

(Ryan really likes his art)

Notre Dame

Gargoyle and view from the top of Notre Dame

no Quasimoto...sigh..

Saint Pierre de Montmartre

Obelisk that was a gift from Egypt's Viceroy

Musee d'Orsay

The lucky artist who sold us a bunch of paintings

The Arc de Triomphe

View from the Arc

And we serenaded Paris with the lyrics from the LIttle Mermaid

Les poissons
Les poissons
How I love les poissons
Love to chop
And to serve little fish
First I cut off their heads
Then I pull out the bones
Ah mais oui
Ca c'est toujours delish
Les poissons
Les poissons
Hee hee hee
Hah hah hah
With the cleaver I hack them in two
I pull out what's inside
And I serve it up fried
God, I love little fishes
Don't you?

Slovakia!

Sunday, I went to Bratislava, Slovakia with a couple of friends. We had fun walking around the old town, visiting an absurdly creepy art gallery, and window shopping. We had some amazing food, called Pirohy,  which looks like ravioli, but is filled with potato. 

Me and Pui-yung

Street

Church Door

The big 26

Ryan turned 26 this week and we had some fun birthday festivities. We had some friends over on Saturday to hang out and then Monday The Hamiltons arrived in Vienna. Tuesday for his birthday we went to the Donauturm...that means Danube Tower. It is a huge tower that rotates 360 degrees every 30 minutes and they have super food. This was Russ and Gayle's first dinner in Vienna. Earlier on Tuesday, we explored some of the city!

Ryan with new guitar...he's super excited

View from Donauturm

Ryan enjoying his birthday food...yumm!

Russ and Gayle trying not to look at the camera

The Hamilton gang

oohhhh...ryan....

In front of St. Charles Church (Karlskirche)

Russ and Gayle in front of St. Charles Church

Mr. Photographer

Klosterneuberg

Sorry for the lack of posting! We haven't really taken any pictures, so I haven't been blogging. Last weekend I went biking up to an old monastery/nunnery which produces the largest amount of wine in Austria from a non-commercial source. The biking was a lot of fun, though the next day it was a little tough to sit down! The place was really beautiful, here are some pictures. 

The front of the monastery 

The back

Cool statue in the main lobby

Grape juice containers

Intricate carving on Italian wine barrel

Chapel

Column at entrance

(if you look to the right you can see a priest)

Cafe view

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled....

So a couple of weekends ago, Linz and I went with a few friends to see a Led Zeppelin cover band. That's right....an AUSTRIAN Led Zeppelin cover band. Needless to say, it was a great time. And believe it or not, these guys were outstanding!!

Lead singer looking slightly large next to Diana's head

Performing

We said that we were from NY and so the whole night we got shout outs and dedications to us...the New Yorkers!! haha!!