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Date: 26 May-10 June 2003
Though he's tragically not in any of my pictures anymore (sigh), Bryan kindly invited me to post my Europe pics to gallery anyway, to share them with the world. Or at least the 5 or 6 of you who care. So, "world," here's Leslie's European vacation.
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Sarah in Interlaken! The first shot with my backup camera. - scan0002
Sarah and Leslie, in front of a flower shop, in front of the Alps. On the way to the grocery store. - scan0003
The Funny Farm, our hostel. Formerly a barn. Notice the creatively painted trash can. - scan0004
Sarah and I by the pool at the hostel. We spent four hours here on Saturday, slathering on sun screen (because we're responsible about skin care), and waiting for our rafting trip. - scan0005
The pool, complete with a log bridge that people liked to fight on and a giant climbing wall. - scan0006
Sexy Sarah in her new swimsuit. - scan0007
More of the pool. We spent a lot of time here. - scan0008
The garden, complete with old gondola and new marijuana plants. - scan0009
More marijuana, in a flower bed. - scan0010
So, our dorm was quite recently a stable. In addition to the stall dividers, it also features intact horse troughs. Also 20 beds stacked 3-high and the smell of old urine. - scan0011
Sarah and Kacee ready the bikes for one of our two long treks. In the background you can sort of see Jungfrau, the snowy alp that looms over the town. - scan0012
Me, at a scenic view on one of our rides. - scan0013
What was behind me. It didn't turn out too well, but I swear it's Interlaken. - scan0014
Kacee rides down the road. - scan0015
Kacee and Sarah with bikes, church, cemetary, lake, alps. - scan0016
Gate, cemetary, lake, alps. - scan0017
Church/tower thing. - scan0018
Swiss man in a boat on a lake. I felt a little bad just snapping his picture, but he was just so...picturesque. - scan0019
View from a bridge we crossed. - scan0020
Me trying to wash the bike grease off me with glacier water. - scan0021
We ended our Sunday bike ride at the mouth of the same river we'd rafted down. Then we went treasure hunting for cool rocks. - scan0022
Same beach. Here you can see where the gray-ish, near-freezing glacier melt river meets the larger, warmer, bluer lake. This is also where we ended our rafting trip. - scan0023
Leslie, still on zero hours of sleep, in front of the Seine, Notre Dame, etc. - scan0024
My favorite shot from that exhibit. At least after looking at all of Van Gogh's landscapes, I could understand how he painted them from scenes like this one. - scan0025
One of my favorites--Irises. - scan0026
My very favorite--Almond Blossoms. Evidently he was very influenced by Japanese prints, and you can definitely see that in this painting. - scan0027
One of my favorites, a Rembrandt portrait. I just liked the look in his eyes. - scan0028
Vermeer's The Kitchen Maid. Very famous for the way he painted natural light indoors. - scan0029
One of Rembrandt's earliest self-portraits. Looks kind of like a kid I knew in high school. - scan0031
Before our hostel let us in, Sarah and I staggered around Paris on no sleep at all. In this lovely garden (called "the Garden of Plants"), we tried to sleep in the grass and got kicked out.