Strange order

There is a new blog post under the pictures. Make sure to just click older posts and it will come up.

A pretty beach town
 

Running at Italian pigeons

A really famous cave

As Sanmartino would say: "RAGAZZI I AM THE CENTER. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A PHOTO"

Libby is REALLY happy to be in the cave. 

Tiberius' Cave

From inside looking out

Women=sex=death... well duh

CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL!

Perugia! Che Bella!

A slightly racist drawing of Connie

Italian Clouds

On the floor of the train

Oh, English. 

Leyton's mother on the town...

... in the colloseum

Oh my pretty town. (Well Rome)

WAR ARCH!

Ah! Rome!

Paletine Hill (yeah. These titles are not very clever). 

I did freak out when I saw this. Then I went inside. And then I freaked out some more.

View from the top of the Paletine. Not too shabby. 

We are the same person. 

My favorite place. nbd. 

My favorite giant fountain with a naked man EVER. In Rome that is saying a lot. 

Garden of the Virgins. Yes, we sang Madonna while in here. 

Toni living her Lizzy McGuire dream. 

Trevi in all of its beauty. 

I know what I'm gonna look like when I'm older. 

The old famous poll near our hotel. 

Stourton. Little female Stourton. And Taylor, bombing a family photo. 

What I first saw when I stepped of the train for the first time in Rome. 

Neptune chillin' in Bologna. 

They are in AWE. 

Takin' a photo. Being a tourist. 

Yeah, this is Rome. 

Italian dog. 

Piazza del Popolo. Pope square. 

Wow. Dramatic. 

I have learnt that the one raised hand signifies speaking to a crowd.  Ak! So smart. 

Kayla being Kayla. 

A man, showing us his talents. 

The Tiber. 

I could teach that!

Mosaics from the mosaic capital of the world, Ravenna! 

Pantheon! Not Parthenon. 

Hadrian made it. 

Ivy admiring Jan's plush fur. We all do. 

DANTE'S GRAVE. OH. MY. GOD. 

Bilbaoan Dog. Yes, giant topiary dog. 

Mommy with the dog. Up close. 

Now faraway. 

Outside Dante's grave. 

Mariah and Ivy are done. 

Gughenheim. I needed some modern art. 

Beautiful Barcelona. 

The Female Stourtons. 

What! The beach! 

SO MUCH GOLD. 

Looking dramatic on a bus in Spain. 

Modern Basilica in process...

... since the 20s!

Verona. City of love. 

Juliet and her infamous chest. 

Cutest gate ever, found in Juliet's garden. 

Toni's getting good luck. 

And she's putting her letter to Juliet in the wall. Oh, young love!

Annie still looks graceful on the coldest boat ever to Venice. 

I cried when I saw this. 

We saw this square in a movie, and that made Kyra excited. 

Venice is beautiful from every angle. 

Coming into Piazza del San Marco. 

Inside that Barcelonian Basilica. 

SYAers meeting up for some learning. 

lshil uehvruiveow u. So pretty. 

La Basilica di San Marco! Its even better inside. 

This is where Othello went down. 

More of Gaudi's building. 

Ah. Venice. 

Ahhhhhh. Venice. 

Ms. Mazureck teaching on the go. 

CHRISTMAS CARD!

Kyra loves Toni

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Venice. 

YES. That is a Starbucks. 

A boat. 

Gaudi's Barcelona.  

A very talented man. 

Padova, in all of its glory

Late afternoon in Barcelona. 

Water

Kayla and water

What? A real-life gingerbread house. 

A really big church. 

A man on a horse. I did a project on this. 

Gaudi's Garden. 

Ferrara. Not at night. 

The Cassidy clan plus Grandma. Damn, I broke my vow of never using the word clan. 

The top of a castle in Ferrara. 

Eleanore, Toni and Leyton enjoying some intense mosaic. 

Piazza della Rocca in Napoli

Zi Alps

PUNSCH

A church and a giant christmas tree. 

VIENNA

Rome. Intese as always. 

A very artistic stack of Christmas tree. 

Swiss guard at the Vatican. 

Saint Peter outside of his church. 

Il mio padre!

Hercules. Just chillin'. 

Inside the Pantheon. 

Vienna at night with a pretty heart tree. 

View from the Pantheon. 

Okay. It must be amazing to say that you performed outside the Pantheon. 

Italian doggy be pissed. 

Austrian Christmas. 

Toni's Austrian Christmas

Pretty woman play a pretty song. 

Two dolls kiss... what!?

My friends. 

Mommy is scared. 

Okay, so kinder means children. We did not put that together. Then I made the comment, "smells like kinder." I had just taken a cup that had child (non alcoholic) punsch. So after I tried to explain that, I realized that you had to be there. I swear that it was funny. 

Yes, that is an Othello demonstration. 

This is what we do when we wait in line. 

SO. EXCITED. TO. BE. IN. VIENNA. 

Our hotel.  

The first of many pictures of the spectacular Christmas markets. 

Our first Punsch Stand

It took us 30 minutes to pluck up the courage to buy food here. But then we did and it was awesome. 

More Punsch

Our street. 

Pretty tree. Pretty church.  

Whoops thats a double. 

Streets all decked out for Christmas. 

A famous tall golden thing. I really liked it. 

Me AND the golden piece of art. 

SO PRETTY

Beautiful Viennese piazza. Well, I guess that it's not called a piazza because it's in Vienna. 

Lookin' cute. Drinking out first to-go coffee in FOUR MONTHS. 

No, I did not take this off of the internet. It's real!

Plus there were horses...

... and a sunset. 

Coffee mouth.

My life. She's lookin' all pretty. I'm looking all awkward. But hilarious.

Garden. 

Market. (It's the same in German)

Amazing

Rouge train. 

Big church. 

Pretty markets in a park. 

Like a gingerbread house. Like lots of ginger bread houses. 

Home made Viennese candy. 

Different market fun. 

The woman tried to get me to pay a euro for trying them on. She told me in German, French, Italian and English and I pretended that I was what, Icelandic?

Place for children. Or something. 

I payed in German!

Drink stand. Austrian drink stand. 

Classy building. 

Statue with gold on top. 

Herz wafflen und Toni.

Hotel Lobby. Crazy fancy fun. 

The praetor! From the bottom. 

The Praetor from the top.

Fancy Austrian dessert. 

Makin' faces. 

Spetzle stand.

And finally we get out authentic German pasta goodness.