paris, je t'aime!

the louvre

notre dame

everything is going so great - paris is absolutely as amazing and beautiful as it seems! delicious pastries & beautiful art!! tomorrow we might be going up into notre dame (it was closed today) & definitely up into the eiffel tower. but we walked all over today, through the louvre (wow!!), & just as we came upon the eiffel tower for the first time it was dusk. then the lights turned on & maybe 3 minutes later -- the most amazing light show!! the whole eiffel tower lit up & sparkling!! miss you all!

by the way...

we are in paris now!!! :)

Madrid!!

the cathedral in madrid

the palace real in madrid, just outside the gardens

getting his fill of wisdom and virtues...

the outside of the palace

the cathedral from the outside

Madrid!!

We´ve only got a couple minutes left on our timer here on this computér so we´ll make this fast.

We have been in Madrid for 2 days. It´s beautiful & very busy. But we´re off to Paris in the morning. We´ll get there around 2:30pm our time. Very exciting. We will be staying within miles of Versailles, Notre Dame, & of course the Eiffel Tower. We will be sure to post pictures of both Spain & Paris next time we have internet access (which is hard to come by here in Madrid!!)

love & miss you all!!

:)
Josh & Leslie

Galway

We made it to Galway yesterday by train. Pretty cool to see the whole country by train. It really IS as beautiful as you would think. Galway is on the other coast of Ireland. Today we are off to see the Cliffs of Moher & some other pretty cool sites -- castles & caves & such. We'll have to post pictures for sure later or tomorrow.

It's wayyy colder here than in Dublin. I suppose because it's so much closer to the coast. We are definitely bundled up but we brought the right stuff so we're comfy. :) We also stayed in the Kinlay House Hostel last night. That was an experience in itself haha. But we got lucky. We booked an 8 bed room but were upgraded to a 6 bed room & THEN we didn't have anyone else in the room with us. So it was just a cheap hotel room with a community bathroom/shower down the hall. AND we had free breakfast!! So not too shabby for our first stay in a hostel. I'm sure they won't all be so wonderful... But here's hoping!

Love you guys!
Josh & Leslie

DUBLIN!!!!

Day 2...

We are rested(10-11 hours of sleep) after a long trip and day...

We are now ready to continue on this journey.. spirits up.. sun out.. had a nasty (half-pint of) Guiness- done .. going to go see more of the beautiful Ireland then hopefully off to England(these Irish dont want us here so we have only a week or two until they kick us out!)

Here are some pics of the trip so far!

Miss you all!!!!!!!!!!

J.L

Dublin --

We're here. We're safe but chilly! Just trying to figure this whole thing out -- which I think we've decided will definitely take a few days. But hey, there's no rules so whatever. Might be back sooner than we thought though haha.

We'll write as soon as we can. Keep praying for us.

Josh & Leslie