DuCk MaStEr MeLiSsA

About a month ago I was able to go to Arkansas for a teaching conference. I had a great time and got lots of great ideas for teaching! While there, we stayed in the Peabody hotel. It was the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. The hotel has 4 ducks that spend their day in the hotel lobby fountain. Each day at 5 they have the Peabody Duck March where the ducks get out of the water and walk on a red carpet to the elevator where they ride up to their Royal Duck Palace to spend the night. Well the hotel allows guests to be Honarary Duck Master. In being an Honarary Duck Master you get to lead the ducks out of the pond, on the red carpet, into the elevator, and back up to their Royal Duck Palace. While staying at the Peabody I got to be an Honarary Duck Master. It was a lot of fun and my Kindergarten class just loved seeing the pictures!

EuRoPe

This post is long overdue. Late July Jerry and I got to head over to Europe for about 3 weeks. It was awesome! The following posts are the highlights from our trip. Enjoy!

AmStErDaM

We started and ended our trip in Amsterdam, which is where we flew into and out of. It is very different than our culture since prostitution and marijuana are legal there. They have an area of the city known as the Red Light District. The Red Light District has street lamps that have red lightbulbs and that is where women would be in windows soliciting themselves for prostitution. Some of the highlights of Amsterdam were:

*The Canals through the city

*The buildings so close to the canal and so close together

*Van Gough Museum (the museum was awesome but we didn't get any pictures)

PaRiS

Since I was in high school I have always wanted to go to Paris and am so glad that we were able to make it there. Some of our highlights there were:

*Eiffel Tower

*The Louvre

*Notre Dome



*Versailles

*Arc de Triomphe

BaRcElOnA

My brother Kory had gone to Barcelona a few years ago so we asked him for advice on what to see while we were there. He had some great suggestions and we had a great time! Some of the highlights were:

*La Sagrade Familia

*Architecture by Gaudi that looked like it belonged in a Dr. Seuss book.

*The Gothic Quarter

*The Meditteranean Sea and Beach (we didn't get any pictures of the beach because there were 1 too many nudes we didn't want in our pictures)

*A Bull Fight

*Museum of Salivador Dali's Work