Europe: Day 3 — CERN! The LHC!

This was the big day: the trip to the Large Hadron Collider. We had quite a crew ready to go from the hotel: Gia, Brian, me, Nick, Nick's son, Julian, and special surprise guest Chris Morris and his son. Chris is, well... he's a brilliant satirist (some NSFW language in that link), for one thing. He's many things, in fact, but he's quite the science junkie and was loaded with questions about quantum mechanics and relativity, which led for an entertaining day. After breakfast, we all piled into the weird boxy van Brian rented and off to CERN we went.