This summer, I had the vacation of a lifetime.  My family went to Europe for 3 long weeks.  This, obviously, was a perfect time to take pictures.  This post will be long and full of pictures just to make up for all of this time.

To start our vacation off, we went to Northern England and stayed at our friends' house in the Yorkshire Dales.  We visited old grounds which I loved.  Architecture over sea's is absolutely breathtaking.  

Symmetry is one of the most beautiful things in the world to me. 

The next leg of our trip was to London, England where we saw Big Ben, Parliament, and The London Eye.  Although Big Ben was smaller than I would have expected, it was still a beautiful building that I am so grateful to have been able to witness with my own two eyes.

From London, we made our way to Barcelona for one evening so we could catch our cruise the following day.  We walked past a man made beach that was built for the Olympics in previous years and we took a bus tour which gave us plenty of opportunities to see the city.

While on the cruise, we stopped all over Italy.  I was lucky enough to wake up to see us pull into the first port- Napoli, Italy.

The next main photo opportunity was in Rome.  We saw the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain.

 Our last stop during this vacation was in Paris, France.  We stayed for 6 nights which was plenty enough time to get some beautiful pictures of the Eiffel Tour.  The French are just as obsessed with symmetry as I, so of course I was in heaven.

I had one last amazing, but unexpected photo opportunity on the plane ride home. I just happened to be awake when the pilot made note that we were flying over Greenland and could see glaciers out of the windows on both sides of the plane.  On my side, the view was beautiful and on the other side (where my brother was sitting) the view was even better.  I was so blessed to be able to have these last few opportunities to take pictures over seas.

And this marks the end of my summer vacation.