Happy New Year! I hope you all have enjoyed the holidays and that 2011 will be an incredibly blessed year for you! My mom came to visit me for a little over two weeks, and we ran around visiting the various castles, piazzas, museums, churches, and villas in Vicenza and nearby towns that I wanted to see before leaving the country. We took day trips to Milan, Padova, and Venice and a two-day Christmas trip to Trieste, on the Adriatic Sea a few kilometers away from Slovenia! Here are some of the highlights (except for the amazing art, such as da Vinci's Last Supper fresco in Milan, where photographs are of course forbidden):
Chocolate chip cookie kids tradition comes to English class!
Milan's Duomo...
...the roof of which we climbed on (in the snow)
Piazza dell'Unita d'Italia, the largest waterfront piazza in Italy (Trieste)
feet in the Adriatic
Castello Miramare, on the sea outside Trieste
Prato della Valle, the largest piazza in Italy (Padova)
Doge's Palace with St. Mark's domes in the background (Venice)
sunset from the belltower on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice)
Castello Miramare, on the sea outside Trieste
Prato della Valle, the largest piazza in Italy (Padova)Doge's Palace with St. Mark's domes in the background (Venice)
sunset from the belltower on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice)
I'm glad the cookie kids turned out!! Your Mom was a little worried about that since it had been a few years...looks like you all had a great time!
ReplyDelete1-WALKING ON ROOFTOPS! COOL!
ReplyDelete2- the feet in the Adriatic didn't get cold from the water?
3- aww you have matching coats!
4- Happy New Year!
Rachel
My feet were fine because I was wearing rainboots! The forecast was for heavy rain all day every day, so I didn't bring other shoes, and then thankfully it barely rained at all, and the temperatures were way warmer than in Vicenza! Apparently in the summer people jump in the sea on their lunch break...unfortunately we weren't there in the right season :)
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the two beautiful Christian women enjoying beautiful Italy!
ReplyDeleteGod bless!
...as an American living in Italy, I love reading about the wonderful things you all are doing there! The neatest thing is that we lived in that area for 5 years... my two eldest kiddos were born in Padova at Camposampiero... I've been to Trieste too!
ReplyDeleteI know you and your mom had a great time, so it's good to get to see the proof! Walking on the rooftop is WAY cool.
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