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Monday, April 30, 2012

we went 4-wheeling in Tuscany, me and mom rode together.

we had a hardship getting there, we could not find it so we asked for directions.  a man directed us to "Tuscana Quad." the gate was closed we drove around the back then came back to the front.  It was open we were all relieved but when we talked to them we realized we were at the wrong place, we were looking for "Crazy Quad Tuscana" so we drove on. we could not find it and by then it was an hour after out appointment, so we went back and rescheduled for noon ( previously at nine-thirty).  this time they gave us better directions but we were still on the point of giving up when we finally found it with the help of over the phone directions.
Mom and Dad had to wear funny neon outfits to keep the mud off 


            me and chris had to wear outfits too but not as weird (before)


this is me on the 4-wheeler (staged)

action shot in the rear view mirror, sorry about the mud it was very wet out. 


Me and chris in our outfits (after)

my shoes got very, very muddy.




us being hosed off after riding



we stayed at a complex of about eight to ten villas

These were taken in and near the giant rosemary bushes outside villa


















the next day we went horse back riding it was very fun though i nearly got bucked off my horse... TWICE!!! and at one point mom's reared back on it's hind legs.




we had to wear polo helmets.

me on my horse

i found this snail out side our villa. when we left i put him on the table on our patio.
when we got back he was upside down on the bottom of the table.



next day we took a cooking class,  it rocked.

this is a picture of chris after chopping onions.

me chopping onions yummmmmm!!!!!

while we were stirring the sauce, chris flipped some onto another hot burner the whole room was filled with smoke.

me stirring the sauce or "ragu" as italians call it.
it is only ragu if it is meat sauce.

me and chris about to make the pasta dough, all we needed was eggs and flour.

kneading the dough 

rolling it.

our rolling pins

cutting and shaping the noodles.

we made strawberry tiramisu. (  no coffee)

our homemade noodles and ragu, they came out great.

me with my dish of tiramisu

the decoration of the dessert (sorry about the wrong order)

chris being served his heaping portion.
(even the staff tried and liked the dessert)

thank you for reading my post.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Some very good gelato in Sorrento.

A nice view from a lookout point.

we went down to the beach(cold water)


an amazing view from a view point at the isle of capri.


Me Chris and Mom found loads of sea glass on the beach at capri, this is about one 10th

us looking for the glass.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

some rome pics, soon we will be going to Naples then Sorrento.
so maybe faster internet, if so  posts galore.
this is  a dog
Q: boy or girl?
A:chihuahua

The Trevi Fountain 

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

OH NO I CAN'T SEE HIM!!!!!!!

Yesterday we were at the park after going into the borghese gallery so while we were there we decidide to play some frisbee, (we were all hungry) Chris got mad ( forget why) he kind of ran behind us hiding for a long time but still in view. Soon though he was out of sight, we looked around a little bit and still could not see him. We realized it was serious we looked around hard but still did not see him.  We yelled for him then looked harder, finally at a central tall point in the park while we were looking around we got a phone call. It was Chris he said he was with " two nice people" we were over joyed (he called during a prayer) we called my dad then we met up me and dad ran ahead (to the appointed place) I ran so fast I thought I would throw up. Finally we got there after a good scare. While  running towards with a break in it i did not see the break in it and was going to jump it but my dad called me over to the break while running towards him a man sitting on the bench had a huge black dog with him the dog jumped out at me barking and growling. But luckily no bite. Chris was safe soon mom got there and we were all reunited. After we went to lunch at our favorite pizzeria.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Horse meat shop NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 a little more on venice

The bridge of sighs