jim - i said i would tell you how the contiki tour went. i honestly don't think you should book one unless it's a getaway style tour because this was so fast paced, we were in a different hotel every day except rome and paris. it was fun but really tiring and basically just gives you an idea of the places you want to come back to sometime in the future and places you thought you would have like but didn't really do much for you.
i got back awhile ago but have been avoiding making a thread about it because the day after i got back i started my new job, and went back to my old one, so i didn't really have time. but here are some pictures, i decided to do just 1 or 2 from every place i went to because i took um, 433 pictures. yeeeeah. anyway. PICTURE TIME!
london (this was the most exciting thing we saw since we were so tired from our flight that we just slept the whole time we were there):
dover (the not-so-white cliffs of dover)
amsterdam (i didn't get high, but pretty much everyone else on the tour did and said it was the best stuff they've ever had, it was so bizarre going into a place and getting a weed menu)
st. goar, germany (pretty much the most exciting thing was the largest freestanding cuckoo clock in the world, or something)
munich (here's the glockenspiel, but the best part about munich was the giant beer hall where they only serve beer by the liter)
germany (this is the castle that walt disney saw and based the disneyworld castle on)
dachau (that day our tour manager decided to take us to this concentration camp and im really glad she did because it was just so surreal and intense to actually walk through one)
austria (this was the swarovski crystal museum in austria which i swear you have to be on acid to fully appreciate)
venice (view from our gondola ride, except the gondalier was on his cell phone a lot so that was sweet too)
rome (the first one is the "eh" view from when you step out of the subway station and the second one is from when we saw the pope in st. peter's square)
florence (florence was really pretty and here's a picture of yet another tiny car)
lake como, italy
mt. stanserhorn (view from the top of a mountain in switzerland)
lucerne, switzerland (this was where a weird old lady asked us if the U.S. had 24 states in it. when we told her there were 50 she got mad and said that was way too big)
paris (definitely my favorite, the first one i forget what that is, har har, the second one is the view from underneath the glass pyramid in the louvre and then the next one is when we were driving around the arc de triomphe and almost died and the last one is from when we went to the moulin rouge)
ok that's it, i could seriously type so much more but this post is already 10 years long so ummmm i guess now talk about amazing trips that you've taken or where you want to go, and pictures! share pictures from your most favorite trips ever.
When I went, we left at 9pm and got there in the morning, and I can't sleep on planes, so I was the only one who didn't sleep on the flight, so then we stayed up all day til late that night! 
(Which is most certainly still there and we go on it alllllll the time... in fact I was just on it earlier tonight.)
