Monte Carlo

Don't think I had enough spare change to even step near the front door!

Sign did say only for kids.......

But............that never stopped  Dan or Katie

While Damien did the right thing and stayed outside the fence

While Katie and I went inside the museum/aquarium the boys did some sightseeing

Pretty eel

Nemos - had to put them here

The other wedding had just taken place

The wedding car

On the way up to the royal residence

and there it is

me and it

Lots of canons

So why not use them as props

Like so

And again

Seemed like a good idea, these were half way down the hill

And one pile had some fallen off

So Dan picked one up to fix it

So did Adam

Katie doing what the sign says

Nice boat with matching helicopter

They know how to pack buildings in to a small space

Damien, Dan, Sarah and Adam deciding on what to have for lunch

And if you yell and say smile, everyone looks up, must be used to cameras by now on the trip

Spray bottles of oil and vinegar

No tables for 6 but luckily there were friends from the boat who let us share their table, Carmen and her dad John

And we shared this mmmmm

plus this

 

But we could have had hod dogs instead

And even in rich places they still had blow up stuff for the kids to play on

Or toys like this

I went back to ship and the kids went for a swim

Well kids and Damien's dad

Very synchronised

And back on boat for some reason decided to take a pic of some of the turkish delight we hadn't yet eaten :)

One of our tender boats returning

some-ones private run-about

Leaving Monte Carlo

bye bye

Florence and Pisa - not many pics was all a bit rushed

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Field of Miracles - Leaning Tower in back

we got there early

Leaning Tower - no holding up shots , which is weird cause we did them everywhere else!

Was given a good clean a few years ago and was quite bright

Katie holding it up with her head

Me holding the fence up

Practising taking postcard shots

Nice big doors at church

Now we are in Florence, which was beautiful was rushed

Saw statue of David after this - no pics allowed museum

So next photos are of lunch, they forgot our vego mains , this was entree

This was made up main course

Dessert made up for boring main :) and I don't even like chocolate, but ate this

all these are locks folks have added

And this is why I take 2 photos every time

To get rid of other tourists wandering into the shot!

And this as well

to remove my greedy hand as Katie was trying to take the photo, this may have been the 4th attempt