We spent the entire morning and afternoon in this quaint little fishing port called
Honfleur. It was perfect! The weather was wonderful - very nice and cool and a gorgeous day to walk around and experience this perfect town in the Normandy region. Many painters have captured this town on canvas and is familiar in art galleries around the world. After Eric (our tour guide) showed us some of the highlights of
Honfleur, we were on our own the rest of the day. Many of us took our time walking in and out of the little shops and found some great things to bring home with us. It was a perfect day!
Pont de Normandie - cable-stayed bridge that was opened in 1995 to connect
Honfleur with Le
Havre.
One of the little shops that sold
Calvados - an apple brandy that is made from apples from the Normandy region. Eric arranged for us to go inside and the owner had a sample for anyone that wanted to try....I have pictures of some of those that tasted, but I won't incriminate them just yet. Mark and I have a pork chop and apple recipe and we might try adding some of this while the apples are
sauteing - yes, I bought a bottle.
Carousel built in 1900 - it was lovely!
This hotel was right at the edge of town and had a gorgeous view of the town - I could have stayed there several days!
Cathy and Mandy in
Honfleur
This church was built at the end of the 15
th century by shipbuilders. It still remains France's largest wooden church.
Mom, Cleo and Faye enjoyed their seafood lunch here
This shop was incredible - filled with lovely linens and china, light fixtures and door knobs. It kind of reminded me on
Anthropologie - which is why I probably loved it so much.
Another gorgeous day in France!
Saturday night we stayed at Planet Hollywood which is right across the street from The Bellagio - where the wedding was. Planet Hollywood was really nice, very modern and chic....loud and young.
Our private cabana for the day - everyone hung out here through the day before the wedding
The flowers in the garden area off the lobby at The Bellagio were gorgeous!
The lobby of The Bellagio
The area to the right of the picture is where the wedding took place
Amy and Dave getting married - and if you notice, we were right off the water where the fountain show is....as soon as they were pronounced husband and wife, there was a special fountain show for them. It was really cool!
View of Vegas from Amy and Dave's suite
When Mark and I got back to our room....this was down the hall....I guess he had a little too much of Vegas?
Mark was in Civil Air Patrol in Maryland with Alisha and she now lives in Vegas with her husband, Mike and their 2 kids (and one on the way). We met them for dinner at Paris and sat outside and enjoyed the wonderful food and had a front row seat to watch the fountain show across the street and people watch - Vegas is the best place to people watch!
The coolest thing in Vegas - they go off every 20 minutes and dance to a different song each time. The last show is midnight and it's always to the Star Spangled Banner
Sunday we moved down the strip to The Venetian - very nice!!! The rooms were incredible - 3 flat screen tvs and very plush furniture and comfy bed. I could have stayed here for a long time!
Madame Tussuad's was museum was connected to The Venetian and they brought MJ outside - he died just a couple of days before we were there. People were lined up to take pics of his wax body - when we walked by, no one was there, so we stopped for a quick pic
Our trip is over...heading back to the airport and back to reality!
Mark left about 6 hours before I did....so I got to watch them taxi and takeoff
This was our first day - we dropped our things at the hotel and headed straight for the Louvre. I thought Savannah and I looked pretty cute after being awake for so long and flying all night....
