France Trip- day 1 Monaco

I had the unfortunate task of "testing" out a trip for my work. That means Sam and I were off to France, however our first day was in Monaco.

 We got in too early to check into our hotel so we put our stuff down and decided to walk around and check out the area. We found some great gardens.

 The Monaco Casino

 some flower pics for Arlyss (I know you are proud of me!)

 If you look closely you can see the helicopter just to the left of the buildings, there was a private landing pad on one of the buildings...did I mention we were in Monaco?!

 quite the pipe organ, imagine the Troge family Christmas with this one

 here is a view of the organ from further away

 gorgeous church

 Grace Kelly

 This photo is for grandpa and Cohen. A guy was flying this contraption all over the cathedral taking pictures. We knew Cohen would go nuts based on how much he loves grandpa's helicopters.

 We had a little welcome reception then went for a cocktail...mine was very fun.

 dinner is served late, well at least late when you are on US time just trying to stay awake, so we decided to do some more walking around town before we went to dinner at a reasonable time, which was at the very front end of reasonable...

 we stayed at the Fairmont

 after our dinner we went to see the Casino lit up at night

 it is definitely pretty amazing!

 We brought one of Cohen's salamanders on the trip with us and took pictures of him different places we were and sent them to him, here was the first of many.

Good night Monaco, you are quite amazing!