Our last trip was to Normandy, France. John really wanted to go there because there is so much history there! I didn't know too much about it beforehand, but John filled me in. John loves Band of Brothers and this movie took place after The Battle of Normandy. We took the Eurostar train again to Paris. Then we got a rental car with a GPS (thank goodness...) and we headed to Normandy. It took us awhile to get there. It took us about 3.5 hours. There were several toll roads on the way. John said it felt really strange to drive a car again! Haha...Now that is strange. We finally made it to our cute little Bed and Breakfast around Midnight. The next morning we drove to Utah Beach. Strange that you have to go all the way to France to get to Utah Beach. j/k... There was a really neat museum with artifacts from World War II. We watched a little movie, then had a look around at everything. Then we went out to the beach and took some more pictures. The one bad thing about our trip, was that is was FREEZING!!! It was super windy and raining the whole time. Bad luck I guess. Oh well. You will be able to tell how windy it was from my hair in most of the pics. Then we headed to the American Cemetery. There was a little museum at the beginning then we headed to the cemetery. It was overwhelming to see all the white headstones and hear about all the great men that fought for our county and died! It was a huge cemetery! Omaha Beach is connected to the American Cemetery, so we went down the trail and checked it out. I found some fun little sea shells and John snagged a couple of rocks. Our last stop of the day was to Pointe Du Hoc. It was a point of attack. It was a cool little area where they took shelter. There are some ruins there and some big holes in the ground where they hid. We got us some McDonald's and called it a day. Have you had their potato wedges BTW? They are so good! Normandy was really interesting and I'm so glad we made it out there before we came back to America! Our last day in France we stopped by Versailles. Stay tuned for that post.
The cute little room we stayed in...
Watching the movie at the Utah Beach Museum.
Utah Beach.
Utah State Flag.
An old "trashy" magazine.
These were so the boats could not come up on the land.
A picture of old war veterans that got together.
Me in front of the Museum.
A tunnel we drove through.
While we were getting gas, a huge wind and rain storm came.
The museum at the American Cemetery.
An aerial shot of the cemetery. (we did not take this picture.)
A video of a memorial at the cemetery.
The American Cemetery.
Collecting sea shells on Omaha Beach.
Pointe Du Hoc.
John inside one of the shelters.
One of the big holes caused by a bomb.
Some ruins.
