Europe in the Springtime (Spring 2007)

I was looking back through the photos of our trip to Paris with Jake for his graduation and thought it was such a fun trip. I thought I'd share a few more photos.

I might make a slide show next week of more photos.

Cute house in Helsingor:



Here's the famous opera house in Paris:

You tell me, do Lars and Jake look like giants in front of Notre Dame?



One of the scary things in Europe, is sometimes how narrow the streets can be. Watch this car driving through the arch, and we followed it in a bus. I could have touched the walls.



We took the ferry from Calais in France to Dover, in England. We had to drive all around England to see everything we wanted to see and that meant driving on the leftside of the road:

We visited Stonehenge while we were there.

ANSWER TO THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY AND EARTH-FRIENDLY FRIDAY

ANSWER: VENUS (So many of you are so smart)

AND now it's time for Earth-Friendly Friday.

Check out the Green Heroes Grant Program here.

The gist of the program is to spread some good green and watch your eco-friendly community project grow!

Here is what they say:

"We want to recognize and reward you for your efforts to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Enter The Green Works™ Green Heroes Grant Program and you could be one of five Green Heroes who'll each receive a $10,000 grant to help your eco-friendly community project grow and flourish!

Whether your project takes place on your neighborhood block or throughout your entire community, just upload a photo of your green program in action and then describe how a Green Heroes grant could help your project blossom. A panel of Eco-Experts, including representatives from the Sierra Club, ecofabulous.com and Josh Dorfman – the Lazy Environmentalist, will select 10 finalists. The public will then have the opportunity to vote for five Green Heroes who will receive a $10,000 grant from the Green Works™ team!"

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

QUESTION: What celestial body (other than the moon and sun-those are givens) is bright enough to cast shadows on Earth?

ANSWER TO WORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ANSWER TO WORD FOR WEDNESDAY: DOUBLE FREETURE according to my favorite Urban Dictionary is when you pay for one movie but then sneak into a second film for free.

Some people call this "movie hopping".

WORD FOR WEDNESDAY

Okay, I was trying to think up a good word to stump all you wise women and genius gentlemen but was having trouble. So, I asked my husband (who speaks multiple languages) "What's a hard English word?"

He said, "Rock."

Not everything comes out in translation. :(

WORD(S) FOR WEDNESDAY: Double Freeture

Time to take a guess. What do you think it means?

Come back at 3:00 to see if you were the wizard(ress) of words or NOT.

Contest for Teachers and Librarians

Check out Lisa Greenwald's contest here.

Lisa is of the Longstockings blog fame and her contest is about her LIFE IN PINK & GREEN

You can enter by simply writing to her and telling her what your class is doing to help the Earth by being green.

And there are great prizes like snacks, goodies and gift cards with a party for your class on Earth Day!!!

Deadline to enter:
3/31/2009

Become an MnM Shared by Rena

Me as an M&M character:


I loved this fun little photo game. Rena Jones shared this on her blog. You can link to it here.

Plus Rena shared this button eyes fun too. And, you guys all know I loved Coraline so I had to share me, looking like the Other Mother.



If you want to button your eyes, click here.