Our Journey Begins

This will be the first of many as about our summer vacation.  This summer we are heading to Europe for  5 weeks and I plan on taking a ton of pictures.  So you are pre-warned.  LOL

 

Our journey begins in Calgary were we had to fly out off.  We drove down in the morning so that we would have time to take a tour of a new charter airline Enerjet.  Jamie knows some of the pilots really well so he made arrangements for us to have a tour and boy were the boys excited (mostly Jamie  LOL)

The boys really got to explore the whole plane

You can't be a part of this family with out showing a little bit of interest in air planes.  LOL  We spent an hour exploring the plane and then it was time to head to the airport for our big adventure.

We were lucky enough to be able to go to one of the lounges  before our flight and enjoy some food and relax before the journey.

Here is our plane.  It is hard to believe that we are going to be gone for 5 weeks.  What are we thinking.  LOL

The boys were pretty excited as we were able to save up enough for business class for on the way over.  It gave us a lot of room and boy did it feel good.

Stefan with his bag of treats from the airline.

It doesn't get much better than this.  LOL  I am sure that when all the people in club class saw us getting on with our four boys they were pretty concerned but they boys as usual were super stars and so well behaved that they proved them wrong.  Way to go boys and what a great start to our trip.

We finally made it to Great Grandma Orrell's.  Ya and yes we are looking a little tired.  LOL

We decided to get out and stretch our legs and to help us stay awake so we made our way to the sea shore.  I have so many fond memories of being on these beaches.  It was so fun to take my own children here.

Of course the high light for the boys were the sand dunes.

The spend hours just jumping and running the rain didn't even matter.

This picture made us laugh.  This is Stefan's way of washing himself off.  LOL

The weather got a  little bit better so we were made our way out to enjoy a local park.  In St. Annes

They have some very unique swings and climbing equipment at their parks.  Which the boys had fun on.

This was just day one of our time in England.  We are planning on being in the north of England for just over two weeks and exploring then we will head south to London, then on to France for 4 days and then the Czech Republic for 10 days  This is going to be a great trip and hopefully we don't bore you with all the photos.  LOL