Murano - lots of glass. Warning - don't get off the main drag, or its closed down factories with drunk and/or old ladies directing you back to the main drag (known as the yellow paths on the map). We deleted all pictures of this place...
Burano - picture fest ! Colorful house, colorful house, colorful house, leaning tower, colorful house, lace shop,colorful house, flower boxes, colorful house... you get the idea
Oh yea - and Oprah endorsed it (notes Cyndi)
Little Red Dots all over our skin. Hope they let us the board the plane tomorrow. It doesn't itch, so we have that going for us. No pictures...
Awesome hiking Ex's - Feet not ripped up, Lungs working well
Cyndi is amazingly injury free and mostly healthy despite walking along a 2 foot wide trail with a 1000 foot drop off into the Mediterranean.
Jordyn got her day at the beach - Jordyn posed and tanned, Josh and I body surfed, Deb walked the beach looking for sea glass, Cyndi coughed but got better, Josh sat/walked and thought, and we got to experience the Italian time table train experience on the hot platform...
90 year old lady hauling groceries beat us up the long climb to the top of town, and then kept going even higher... later we heard an ambulance going up the hill. hoping she is ok. no sighting today - eyes peeled. Deb thought she just saw her... nope. Old people here are amazing
We all tried fried anchovies tonight - even Joshua. Consensus - there still anchovies. Maybe if the wrapped them in bacon.... Grams - no Anchovies !
Bell pattern confusion laying in bed. 5 chimes at 5 am, 6 chimes at 6 am, 13 chimes at - what ???? anyway, we got up - it was about 8:33 am. Ken - any thoughts on this one ? Ok... sitting here during dinner blogging - at 8:00 pm they rang the bell for 40 times and still going. I think the bell guy has had too many fried anchovies.
We are all addicted to the internet (accept Deb - she insists). We cant have a conversation without some kind of who has the access point password ? I just dropped my connection. As the weird bell ringing fades out Cyndi and Jordyn and still trying to get Deb's phone connected. Deb counted 81 chimes - with a fade out.
Jordyn is in text heaven right now. California is awake and so is she. Her phone is on fire !!!! Not actually on fire. Just buzzing a lot.
Deb has cooked breakfast every day she had a kitchen. BTW - breakfast in Rome, Tuscany and Venice is - eggs, Pancetta, Roasted potatoes (with rosemary), toast, and fruit. Accompanied by Cornetti from a local bakery/café and caffe a porter via.
Today we had more Madonna and baby Jesus sightings. Very common for folks to have these over their doors and Deb has been collecting trading cards as well. The common theme is that the baby Jesus is quite different and usually not very baby looking - in the Gerber baby sense of the word. Debs theory that babies were not in public so artists drew on whatever they had. So far we have: Comb-over Baby Jesus, Grump Old Man Baby Jesus, over tweezed eyebrow baby Jesus, Weeble baby Jesus, widows peak baby Jesus, bad perm baby Jesus. But our favorite is Baby Jesus... Ole'
Wrapping up our last night here on the terrace in Cinque terre with the little old hotel man occasionally checking in on us. What a lovely trip. Cyndi just plucked a 1.5 inch hair (mostly brown, so there) from my eyebrow - has that mountain been there the whole time ? Cool ! What a weird group of people I have as a family. LOVE !!!!
P.S. The bell just rang once at 8:25 pm. huh ????9
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