Buying treasure from gypsies while sitting on the Spanish steps

Are we Human, or Are we Dancer

Watching the Manchester United v. Barcelona game at Muddy Waters

Kevin and I thought we were wearing the exact same color shirt...turns out the colors just complemented eachother

Green shirts + khaki = bad asses

At the disco-tech

Roommates

Tried to get a picture of the twins behind them...but it didn't work out.

Awkwardly posing in front of Burger King

My foot: The aftermath of my fall down the stairs

The Grand Master's Palace - the Armoury and Barrakka Gardens

Since my dad and mom couldn't come to visit me in Malta, I thought I'd post some pictures specifically for them. The gardens seemed like something Mom would like (those are the first pictures) and the second set is for Dad. The second part is from the armoury in the Grandmaster's Palace. 

Police station inside Fort St. Elmo

Malta

Start of Barrakka Gardens

Valletta cat

Start of the armoury

The first pictures are from the more recent time period

I'll see you at the cross-bows 

Word play!

Were these those things we saw on Deadliest Warrior when the knight fought the pirate?

Wall-o-spears (and pikes)

Breech-loading Falconet

Flint-locked Rocket launcher

Musketeer's Horn Powder Flasks

Sword-gun

The Flintlock

Folding gun

Bayonets

Calvary Carbine

Entrance 

The Mounted Dragoon

This starts the older stuff

Cuirassier Armor 

The Savoyard Helmet

Suit of Armor made for Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt

1601-1622

His casual, jaunty day armor

Armor made for Grand Commander Jean Jacques de Verdelain

1590-1673

Turks

Chanfron - to protect the horsier Hospitalers

Pretty big dude

Greaves

Buckler or "gun-shield"

Chain

The carriage of a Grand Master