Beautiful Vicenza

Vicenza is such a pretty town! Every where you look there is something adorable to see. As the covid numbers are reducing and things are opening up, we are loving all of the benefits of living in this city and being able to walk everywhere. Truly adorable!
 

White Water Rafting

One of our friends told us about a fun opportunity, about an hour away - just north of Bassano del Grappa - White Water Rafting! Even with a severe language barrier, I was able to schedule and we were able to get all of the information needed to go. Such a different experience (liability wise), then we are used to back home. We shared a boat with 1 other group - the guide suggested we play a game where one person stands on the very front of the boat, while the rest of us paddle in circles trying to knock the person off - so funny! We had so much fun - even in the freezing cold water (luckily, we had wet suits). Mia loved it too! They even took photos for us along the route and sent them to us for keepsakes - a great time!! *the area was a host to an Olympic sport (although we couldn't quite figure out which one - translation was a bit off - ha ha!!) 

 

Friends!!

We had such a nice time with our friends from Germany! They were our first overnight guests since we have lived here and it was so much fun just having some normalcy to life after such a long stretch of covid craziness. My friend, Leigh and I had been to Verona together on a girls trip several years back, so it was especially fun going back again, this time with the guys and Mia. They have a little puppy too, and Kiwi and he got along great! So much fun!

 

Camden’s visit!

After way too long apart, we had such a great time with Camden visiting. It was so nice to hang out and spend time with him. After a full school year apart, it was so fun to see how much he has grown living on his own this year. We loved every single minute!! Such a great time!!
 

Hiking Monte Cengio - World War 1 caves up near Asiago

Pizza a canal in Venice

Kiwi loved every minute of having Camden here!

Exploring the caves

The famous bookstore, Libreria Acqua Alta, in Venice

My heart was 4/5ths full!!

A few months to go until he is 21, but at 16 here, he enjoyed the Birra Moretti :-)

Gelatto!

The Arena in Verona

One happy puppy!!

St. Marks square - still very calm due to Covid (although the German tourists were beginning to arrive!)

Monte Cengia 

Asiago

Beautiful Verona!

Camden's favorite place was Verona!

Monte Cengio

Just missing Bailey!!- overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice

The crazy drive up to Mt. Cengio

Venice

Verona

Vicenza!

Thiene

 We had a nice little lunch in a town not too far away, called Thiene. It is funny because this little town is adorable, yet fairly sleepy. The funny thing about this town is that they have a webcam.... When we first started researching the area we were moving to, we found the webcam and thought that it was the Piazza of our town. It was during covid and so it was extremely quiet. Come to find out our piazza is about 10 times the size, but doesn't have a webcam. It was fun to finally see it after all of that time seeing it from a webcam in Florida (and my Dad checks it out regularly still too!! :-)). A fun day with a gelato as desert. And of course Kiwi was able to join us too!