Marostica

This is a walled city with a castle at the top and a castle at the bottom. This is a view from the highway.

This is one of the towers at the end of the wall.

The town is known for a live chess game (like Harry Potter-Wizard's chess). If you look closely you can see the chess board. The show is only in September every even year. 2012 here we come. The tickets are super expensive, about 80.00 a ticket.

This is one of the castles at the bottom where all the shops are.

The town is also know for cherries. We stopped at this little store and bought some chocolate covered cherries. Matt was in heaven.

This is a cherry vineyard. We stopped at this roadside stand and bought some cherries. We bought a kilo and it only cost 4 euro which is about 4.75 to 5.00. The guy that sold them had a button up shirt that was unbuttoned half way down his belly. Gross. And he was old.

You can see he filled that whole bag.

Nove

This entire town makes Ceramics. Everyone makes all different kinds, plates, bowls, vases, mugs, pizza plates. This is the front of the VBC, a store that everyone loves.

All the ceramics in the store.

This is a staged area. So you can see how everything will sit out.

We've bought a few serving bowls and plates and love, love them. They are some beautiful pieces.

Military Ball and Sightseeing

The Edelweiss Resort where we stayed. It had a spa and pool down stairs. We went swimming and hot tubbing after the ball.

Matt and I at the ball. You can't see my dress, but it's a big puffy ball gown.

The town of Oberammergau. They are know for their wood carving and The PassionPlay. They have some beautiful Nativity Set and Candle Pyramids.

A croissants that I had. German ones are the best, better than French or Italian. Theirs are too sweet.

We walked through this fair in Garmisch. We bought the croissant and brats here. They had laderhosen. It was really expensive clothing. Like 200 euros, which it about 350.00 dollars.
The brat I bought. It was so good. I did not want to share.

Humpty dumpty. The store behind Matt, was full of wood carved humpty dumptys. It was crazy creepy. Stalkerish creepy.

King Ludwig II palace. Sorry I didn't get a closer picture. It was beautiful. He was so full of himself. He had mirrors everywhere, so he can look at himself, all over his home. Everything was gold plated, doors, walls, scones, and chandeliers.

We had a so much fun in Germany. It was beautiful. The sky the weather the Bavaria food, it was all wonderful.

Rome

Yup, our hotel was that close. Look at that view, the Colosseum was amazing.

Inside the Colosseum.

These are ruins in the middle of the city. Yes you heard that right. They were all over the place. Ruins. Just fenced off. Crazy right?

At the Roman Forum.

Pantheon. The Doom was open, and it was raining. So they had the middle section blocked off, since the marble was slippery. The whole floor was different colors of marble. It was beautiful.

The Doom in the Pantheon.

A column at the Pantheon. Rose and Paul trying to wrap their arms around it. It is solid marble. Could you image how much those suckers weigh?

The Trevi Fountain. Look at those sculptors. Breathtaking.

It's tradition to turn around and throw a Euro in backwards and make a wish, and that's what we did.

Matt, Me, Paul, Mom, and Rose. We didn't get many family pictures.

The Spanish Steps. Matt and Paul ran to the top. There was a crazy vendor that kept on pushing roses onto us, and then didn't understand that we didn't want them, if we had to pay for them.

Rome was incredible. There is so much history and beauty in everything. For all those who want to come and visit, Rome is a must. Be prepared to do a lot of walking. My feet hurt after awhile.

Vatican City

This is the wall , guarding Vatican city.

Inside St. Peter's. There was so many paintings and sculptors. The Roman's did so much with marble. Everything was.

The Vatican guards. Aren't they awesome.

Outside of St. Peter's Basilica in his square. It was amazing. We saw where the Pope would address the people.

We took so many pictures, but we didn't want overload you. If you ever coming to visit us. We have to, have to go here. It was amazing to see the way they lived. They sure no how to keep everything in tac.

Weekend Fun

Just a few things we did this past weekend.

Friday night we went bowling. At the bowling alley they have family night on friday. $24.00 you get shoes, 2 hours of bowling, and a pizza. So cheap. We met some of Matt's co-workers and their wives. 6 of us on a lane. Mistake # 1. It took us 2 hours to play one game. I didn't even get any pizza. Mistake # 2. Life is hard. It's time to move on.

Saturday night we went to our Branch President's surprise birthday party at a Japanese restaurant. I didn't care for it. I had 2 drumsticks, and some noodles. It was the sadest $20.00 meal I've ever had. Mistake #3. Now Matt did eat enough for 3. So we didn't completely waste our money. It was nice to visit with other members of our branch.

Sunday we watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicholas Cage. I like it. Matt bought it for me. I like his movies, or atleast the Disney ones.

So all together it wasn't to bad. We did learn some valuable lessons. Lesson #1: Get own lane at bowling alley. Lesson #2: Don't go to a Japanese restaurant ever. Lesson #3: Do not buy a movie you've never seen before, Until your sure you'll like it. Returning things sucks.

How was your weekend?

Verona

Matt and I went to Verona today. It was amazing.

This is ruins of a castle that we passed. I love castles.


This is Juliet's house. I loved the movie Letters to Juliet. So we had to go see her house.

This is the view of Verona from a tower. It was beautiful view.

Your wonderful world travelers.