Back home!

We all made it back home. It was 20 + hours of traveling and very tiring, but everyone was very happy to be back. The students were saying, "Look! It's the United States of America!" as the plane landed in Detroit. I did not think I would ever be so happy to see Detroit!

Thanks, everyone, for following along on our trip. I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Churchill's War Rooms--this was amazing, almost untouched since the war.

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Changing of the Guard

Buckingham Palace

Big Ben

London Eye

Stage inside the Globe. This is a working theater.

Shakespeare's Globe Theater reconstructed on the Thames.

Millennium bridge

Winged Lion

Dragon made of armor.

Coats of armor for men and horses.

Tower Bridge

Ethan and Paije trapped in the White Tower where prisoners scratched messages on the walls.

Tower of London

Sheep grazing right next to Stonehenge.

Stonehenge

Stonehenge on a rainy day.

Wealthy houses in Bath.

Artsy pig in Bath

Roman bath. People wrote curses against those who had wronged them and threw the curses in the water.

Gorgon's head in the Roman bath in Bath.

Bath cathedral

Green hills outside London

Harrods

Lip in Trafalgar Square

Blue rooster outside the National Gallery

Falcon in the square

Trafalgar Square

Piccadilly Circus, London is like Times Square

Sacre Coeur on Montmartre.

Moulin Rouge

Sphinx

Venus de Milo and beware of pickpockets sign.

I don't think she has any pockets to pick!

Entrance to the Louvre museum.

Courtney, Kyle, Katie, and Joe on the Ferris wheel.

Several of us went on this Ferris wheel in Paris.

View from the Arch de Triumphe

Arch de Triumphe

Notre Dame cathedral

View of the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower

Paris Eiffel Tower on a cloudy day

We tried these bread lemons with our lunch in Pompeii.

Depiction of a poet in Pompeii.

Wealthy houses in Pompeii were decorated with frescoes.

Even a brick oven in ancient Pompeii.

Shops had heated food stalls in Pompeii.

The students climbed to the top of the ampitheater in Pompeii.

We walked down the main street of Pompeii.

Each public fountain had a different face in Pompeii.

We took a day trip to Pompeii.