TRAVELING WITH KIDS

In Paris we met a friend from Emma school...we spend the day with them at the park.
We went to the famous Champs-Elysees. There we had ice-cream and strolled around.
At the Park, the kids went on some rides, They jumped on the Trampolen.
We spent 4 days in Paris then we met Our friend Mary and her boyfriend and went to Luxmborg Palace. There we rented a mini boat
and with stick Yury pushed it through the tiny lake.

Then we headed to another hosting Family outside of Paris. I was astounded to find a huge house and the family gave us the first floor for ourselves.

It was such a nice ride...I loved the trains across Scandanvian countries....you can go anywhere with good sale tickets and no need for a car.
We made to our friends house...Sunday and our departure to Los Angeles will be that Tuesday.....So my friend Emma a school teacher arrnaged for us Monday to be at her school. There we have to tell the students where we come from...and tell them about our background for 2 hours....
It was o.k experience....Hope the students were not bored with my speech....
Then our big day comes to go home to Los Angeles after being away for the whole summer..... We arrived home Aug 29 2006
The next day we hosted someone from Australia through couch-surfing....this our first encounter with this kind of experience.

Well finally we boarded the train to Denmark it took us 2 hours to arrive....
from the train station we took a bus to my friends house. Being there before was it easy to recall the address and which bus to take....
We were happy to see our friends....we stayed for the weekend.....
I loved being at my friends' house.... We chatted and we relaxed from our Journey... we strolled across the cafes in Denmark...
We then reserved our tickets through the phone to Boars Sweden for Sunday late Afternoon.

We arrived to Luthunia....We quickly realized that not much to see in this town.
We checked in hotel for half day then took midnight bus to Poland.
This bus ride was the scariest I had...You can not see anything....everything is foggy.
I am so happy we made it alive. I give credit to the bus driver that he knows what he was doing....It seems that we went through a forest.
My husband can't recall much b/c he slept....I am the only one my eyes were wide open all the 6 hours bus ride.
We Arrived in port city called Gdansk....It was such relief to get out of the bus and walk through the city looking for hotel.
We were not lucky for the first 1 hour looking for hotel/hostel....Until old woman who doesn't speak any English helped us to find Hostel.
At this Hostel we had the best experience ever...we met travelers from all over Europe...We met Luis from Cuba...It was such a nice experience to meet him.
Also two German travelers helped us to book our flight to Malmo Sweden. By the way the flights are very cheap....we been lucky for the 4 of us at that time with WIZ airline cost us 150$.....

We made it through a bus ride to RIGA. It is a beautiful town....Even better than Tallinn.... We loved the flowers that the people carry in their hands.
Every corner we looked there were many flower Shops and locals young and old buys beautiful flowers....This is the first impression we got from the city.
Again the food was amazing...The locals are very proud of their food and serve it with big smile on their faces.