So, I was sitting here updating my blog, avoiding writing another version of the current proposal I am working on, when again, for the 4th time since arriving, loud booming sounds take over the night's peace and quiet. I look out the window, and you can see the fireworks!!!! The last time this happened, it seemed they were related to mother's day....not sure what we are celebrating today (not Italy's performance at the world cup!), but they are pretty incredible (yet, loud). Hopefully, they will not wake the sleeping babes, as we had a long day today at the lake beach. On the other side of the Bracchiano lake there is a little town,Anguillara that has a beach with small restaurants and places to rent umbrellas and chairs. Friends of ours led the way, stopping at a beautiful fresh fruit stand to buy watermelon and cherry tomatoes to accompany our procuitto cotto panini. Yum.
The beach was perfect, not too sunny or too hot, with calm, clean water and a beach that the kids could run around without mommy getting worried. Our friend's son spent the entire time searching for frogs, snakes and other small animals, while our kids played in the water, built sand castles and RAN! Ethan learned that he is not supposed to pee in the lake (though all of us have at one point or another), and when daddy secretly whispers "pee in the lake", he does not mean pull your bathing suit down while standing at the shore and pee....Izzy learned that it is incredibly cold to be soooo little when the sun is hiding behind the clouds...shaking violently with large goose-bumps she reported..."no mommy, I'm not cold".....
well, not the big ones but in my neighborhood there are fireworks/crackers going off all the time... or at least that's what i tell myself so i don't think about the possibility they are gunshots... lol... love the pics of pompeii - wicked cool preservation there, hope i'll be able to see it some day :) did the kids react like we used to when dad dragged us to the civil war memorials? heh
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