Europe (Winter 2004-2005)

My wife, her friend Kristi, my friend Jeremy, and I took a trip to Europe over Christmas Break 2004-2005. We went to Germany, Italy, and Spain. Here are some pictures from that trip (thanks to Jeremy for some of these).

Here's my wife, my friend Chris (who's South Korean and living in Berlin studying medicine), and I at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

Here's a picture of Michelangelo's statue of Moses at Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral in Rome. This statue meant something to me personally, as I took a class on Sigmund Freud while studying in Germany, and this is one piece of art that Freud 'psychoanalyzed' in his essay “Der Moses des Michelangelos.” One funny thing about this statue: when Michelangelo was alive, the term “halo” had been mistranslated from the Torah as being horns instead of “rays of light.”

A picture of Venus preserved in a house at Pompeii.

St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.