OUR HIGHS AND LOWS (at a random order), obviously there were many to choose from (specially the highs!), so this is just a sample from us all: *still missing a few but will add them on later
AMELIA
High - Being with friends
Low - Rushing around
GRACE
High - Boating on the Seine, listening to live music on the metro
Low - Lack of Sleep
JACK
High - All of the old buildings everywhere
Low - The crappy hotel in France
STEVIE
High - Playing soccer with everyone
Low - No beer the last evening
SEBASTIAN
High - Getting all these amazing photos
Low - Food not being the best at some places (add on by Niki: and probably loosing some of these amazing photos due to the stolen hard disk, he wrote his note before we found out....)
ROSEY
High - Climbing the 400 steps (each way) to the top of Notre Dame Tower and actually making it. The view was spectacular. (and it was easier than I thought it would be!)
Low - Other than sore feet, would be to stick with the first low of the trip, having to need glasses to see the movie on the seat screen on the airplane
KEITH
High - Stonehenge, inner part of York, soccer in Leeds and Stratford, Eiffel Tower and last metro ride in Paris
Low - No sleep, sore feet (and an add on: the layover in Miami when we sat on the tarmac for an hour)
SHAYNE
High - The Eiffel Tower and the Globe Theatre
Low - No sleep
AMALIA
High - Every minute!
Low - Maya fracturing her finger
COLIN
High - Maeve and Nina's reactions upon receiving gifts from friends
Low - All the walking
ROSA
High - Wandering around London without a set schedule
Low - Not going to mass at Westminster Abbey or Notre Dame
MAEVE
High - Licking Shakespeare's floor
Low - Throwing up and feeling sick on some mornings
COLE
High - Too many.... Picking one: Playing soccer in the giant cricket field in Stratford upon Avon
Low - It rained too much one day
AURORA
High - Wandering around town and finding all of the thrift stores
Low - Lack of sleep on most days and being late all the time
SAISHA
High - Frolicking through Anne Hathaway's garden
Low - The lack of sleep
GEORGIA
High - The carousel ride and row boating in Stratford
Low - Blistered feet
HANNAH B.
High - There are too many to choose from, but I will use this one: While rooming with Megan at the second hotel in England and while getting ready for bed, there was a lull in conversation and she said "I think we're going to be good friends." It sounds cheese but it was so nice!
Low - Feeling as if my feet were going to shrivel up and die from pain while walking from dinner to the Eiffel Tower on our last night in Paris
SARAH
High - Every day was full of amazing connections with history and art and it was all very exciting!!! Being with wonderful friends on a big adventure and sharing spontaneous moments of singing on the bus and soccer in the park was so much fun.
Low - Feeling hurried a few times and Niki sad over her lost hard drive
HANNAH T.
High - Going to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Shakespeare and Co. (practically falling in love with that bookstore enough to live in it) I didn't want to leave!!!!! I also loved Stratford and Oxford!
Low - Getting sick during the trip
MOLLY
High - Everything (I know it's stupid but every single place we visited, every single memory shared was amazing and I tried for hours to think of something that stood out, but I couldn't
Low - Not enough sleep
KIMBERLY
High - The entire group riding the carousel at top speed in York, hearing the kids singing and playing the guitar on the long bus ride to Leeds and watching the sun go down over Paris from the steps at Sacre Coeur and then meandering down through the windy, cobblestone streets of Montmartre with the lit up church looming above.
Low - When Doug went off on Sarah because she asked if we could stay a few minutes to hear the choir sing in Notre Dame!!
MARK
High - On the first day in London, turning the corner of a rather ho hum street and being greeted by the House of Parliament and Big Ben rising majestically above the river Thames.
Low - Having to come home when I could have eaten pear tarts and baguettes for another week.
KIM
High - I loved the thick green grassy hill next to the Bronte home, watching our beautiful group enjoy the flowers, the sheep, the lamb sitting in the grass, the grey skies and the gentle wind that was blowing... breathtaking!
Low - No lows for me
ANAKA
High - Being with friends, wondering around in the streets and the Eiffel Tower
Low - Being tired
MAYA
High - Going to the top of the Eiffel Tower and looking out over the city
Low - Fracturing my finger
DAVID
High - The view from the Eiffel Tower at night and sitting outside Sacre Coeur at dusk then walking down Montmartre as the sun set. Both were incredible experiences!
Low - The trip did have its lows, such as the less-than-ideal accommodation in Paris, a migraine at the Roman Baths, and the increasingly difficult quest for Indian food in London, but the lows that did occur were far outweighed by the highs!
HANNAH J
High - Rowing in Stratford and Hamleys Toy Store
Low - Having time limits and the ticket thing you had to walk through in the underground
NIKI
High - Carousel ride, sharing (meaty) meals with Gretchen, the kids singing & playing music on the bus rides, treating everyone to some fresh food from the London market on the train ride, listening to the choir at Sacre Coeur
Low - The moral low after the dinner in Leeds, stopping Maya and Silas in the Louvre when wanting to sing "Happy B'day" to me through some rolled up magazines, because I thought it would too loud... :o( and ending the trip with the stolen hard disk
MEAGAN
High - The 5 hours we spent wandering Paris
Low - Having a cold while we were in Paris
TAYLOR
High - Anne Hathaway's Garden
Low - Very little sleep
SILAS
High - Soccer game and the visit to Hamleys 5-story toy store - 250 years old!!
Low - The last ("crappy") hotel we stayed in
ALISON
High - Being moved to tears by the exquisite beauty of Jan Vermeer's intimate painting of a seamstress
Low - Rushing
PENELOPE
High - Being on the Eiffel Tower with her friends watching the lights twinkle
Low - Having to wake up early
GRETCHEN
High - Anne Hathaway's garden, the awesomeness of Notre Dame and all the changing landscape and different stones used for all the different towns that we visited
Low - Yelling at the kids in my room and the food in Wales.... ABBA
JONATHAN
High - The Eiffel Tower
Low - The hotel in Paris
NARAYAN
High - Playing indoor soccer with everybody!!!!
Low - Leaving London
